The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is a research and educational virtual laboratory dedicated to studies of the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and exoplanets. Its main goal is to map the habitable universe. The main scientific activity of the PHL is the development and implementation of methods to measure the potential for life of planets.
The most notable projects of the PHL are the Visible Paleo-Earth (VPE), a photorealistic visual reconstruction of Earth past in the last 750 million years, and the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC), a listing and comparison of potentially habitable exoplanets.
The PHL is directed by Prof. Abel Méndez from the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo with the international collaboration of scientists from NASA, Penn State, Washington State, SETI Institute, and many other institutions. The PHL is a spinoff of the MIRS Program of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Contact Information
Prof. Abel Méndez, Director
Planetary Habitability Laboratory
University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
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The computational resources of the PHL are partially supported by the High Performance Computing Facility (HPCf), the University of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico INBRE grant P20 RR-016470 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and the Institute for Functional Nanomaterials (IFN) award 0701525 from the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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