peer reviewed articles & book chapters
Mettler JN, Quanz SP, Helled R, Olson SL, Schwieterman EW (2023) Earth as an Exoplanet: II. Earth's Time-Variable Thermal Emission and its Atmospheric Seasonality of Bio-Indicators. Astrophysical Journal 946: 82. [article]
Jernigan, J., Laflèche, É., Burke, A., & Olson, SL (2023). Superhabitability of High-obliquity and High-eccentricity Planets. The Astrophysical Journal, 944(2): 205. [article]
Schwieterman EW, Olson SL, Pidhorodetska D, Reinhard CT, Ganti A, Fauchez TJ, Bastelberger ST, Crouse JS, Ridgwell A, Lyons TW (2022) Evaluating the Plausible Range of N2O Biosignatures on ExoEarths: An Integrated Biogeochemical, Photochemical, and Spectral Modeling Approach. Astrophysical Journal, 937: 109. [article] [press: USA Today]
Barnett MN, Olson SL. Moderately High Obliquity Promotes Biospheric Oxygenation. Planetary Science Journal 3: 132. [article] [press: Forbes]
Olson SL, Jansen MF, Abbot DS, Haley I, Goldblatt CZ. The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Implications for the Habitability of Archean Earth, Geophysical Research Letters 49: e2021GL095748. [article] [press: Newsweek]
Komacek TD, Kang W, Lustig-Yaeger J, Olson SL (2021) Constraining the climates of rocky exoplanets. Elements 17: 251-256
Checlair JH, Villanueva GL, Hayworth BPC, Olson SL, Komacek TD, Robinson TD, Popovic P, Yang H, Abbot DS (2021) Probing the Capability of Future Direct-imaging Missions to Spectrally Constrain the Frequency of Earth-like Planets. The Astronomical Journal 161: 150. [article]
Reinhard CT, Olson SL, Kirtland Turner S, Palike C, Kanzaki Y, Ridgwell A. (2020) Oceanic and Atmospheric Methane Cycling in the cGENIE Earth System Model. Geoscientific Model Development 13: 5687. [article]
Salazar A., Olson S.L., Komacek T., Stephens H., Abbot D.S. (2020) The Effect of Substellar Continent Size on the Ocean Dynamics of Proxima Centauri b. Astrophysical Journal Letters. [article]
Olson S.L, Jansen M.F., Abbot D.S. (2020) Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection. Astrophysical Journal, 895: 19. [article] [press: CNN, Fox News, Forbes]
Ostrander C., Kendall B., Olson S.L. et al. (2020) An expanded δ98Mo record permits recurrent shallow marine oxygenation during the Neoarchean. Chemical Geology 532, 119391.
Alcabes O.D.N., Olson S.L., Abbot D.S. (2020) Typical Climate Perturbations Unlikely to Disrupt Gaia Hypothesis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492:2572-2577.
Checlair J.H., Olson S.L., Abbot D.S. (2020) No Snowball on Habitable Tidally Locked Planets with a Dynamic Ocean. Astrophysical Journal Letters 884: L46. [article]
Gregory D.D., Mukherjee I, Large R.R., …, Olson S.L. et al. (2019). The formation mechanisms of sedimentary pyrite nodules determined by trace element and sulfur isotope microanalysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 259: 53-68.
Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L, Harman C.E., Lyons T.W. (2019) A limited habitable zone for complex life. Astrophysical Journal 878: 19. [article] [press: Fox News]
Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L., Ozaki K., Harman C.E., Lyons T.W. (2019) Rethinking CO "Anti-Biosignatures" in the Search for Life Beyond Earth. Astrophysical Journal 874: 9. [article]
Olson S.L., Ostrander C., Gregory D.D., Roy M., Anbar A.D., Lyons T.W. (2019) Volcanically modulated pyrite burial and ocean-atmosphere oxidation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 506: 417-427.
Olson S.L., Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Ridgwell A., Meadows V.S., Lyons T.W. (2018) Atmospheric seasonality as an exoplanet biosignature. Astrophysical Journal Letters 858: L14. [article] [press: Fox News]
Schwieterman E.W., Kiang N.Y., Parenteau M.N., … , Olson S.L., et al. (2018) Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life, Astrobiology 18: 663-708. [article]
Olson S.L., Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Lyons T.W. (2018). Earth: Atmospheric Evolution of a habitable planet, in Deeg HJ & Belmonte JA (eds), Handbook of Exoplanets.
Krissansen-Totton J., Olson S.L., Catling D.C. (2018). Disequilibrium biosignatures on Earth through time and implications for remote life detection, Science Advances 4: eaao5747. [article] [press: Los Angeles Times]
Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L., Schwieterman E.W., Lyons T.W. (2017) False Negatives for Remote Life Detection on Ocean-Bearing Planets: Lessons from the Early Earth. Astrobiology 17:287–297. [article] [press: NBC News]
Olson S.L., Reinhard C.T., Lyons T.W. (2016b) Cyanobacterial Diazotrophy and Earth’s Delayed Oxygenation. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1526.
Olson S.L., Reinhard C.T., Lyons T.W. (2016a) Limited role for methane in the mid-Proterozoic greenhouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:11447–11452. [article]
Reinhard C.T., Planavsky N.J., Olson S.L., Erwin D.H., Lyons T.W. (2016) Earth’s oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:8933–8938. [article]
Olson S.L., Kump L.R., Kasting J.F. (2013) Quantifying the areal extent and dissolved oxygen concentrations of Archean oxygen oases. Chemical Geology 362:35–43.
white papers & reports
Olson S.L. & Schwieterman E.W. (2019) Leveraging planetary seasonality to recognize habitability and to detect the pulse of a biosphere. LUVOIR Final Report, Appendix A.16
Lisman D., Schwieterman E.W., Seager S., ... , Olson S.L., et al. (2019) The Occulting Ozone Observatory (O3) Mission. [APC white paper submitted in response to the solicitation of feedback for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro 2020) by the National Academy of Sciences].
Lisman D., Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L, et al. (2019) Surveying the solar neighborhood for ozone in the UV at temperate rocky exoplanets. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51.
Krissansen-Totton J., Arney G., Catling C., ... , Olson S.L, et al. (2019) Atmospheric disequilibrium as an exoplanet biosignature: Opportunities for next generation telescopes. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51.
Arney G., Batalha N., Britt A.V., ... , Olson S.L. et al. (2019) The Sun-like Stars Opportunity. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51.
Reinhard C.T., Schwieterman E.W., Olson S.L., et al. (2019) The remote detectability of Earth's biosphere through time and the importance of UV capability for characterizing habitable exoplanets. arXiv:1903.05611 [astro-ph.EP]
Checlair J.H., Abbot D.S., ... , Olson S.L., et al. (2019) A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to Maximize the Scientific Return of Future Exoplanet Characterization Efforts. arXiv:1903.05211, 2019 [astro-ph.EP]
Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L., Lyons T.W. (2018) The Importance of UV Capabilities for Identifying Inhabited Exoplanets with Next Generation Space Telescopes. arXiv:1801.02744 [astro-ph.EP]
Mettler JN, Quanz SP, Helled R, Olson SL, Schwieterman EW (2023) Earth as an Exoplanet: II. Earth's Time-Variable Thermal Emission and its Atmospheric Seasonality of Bio-Indicators. Astrophysical Journal 946: 82. [article]
Jernigan, J., Laflèche, É., Burke, A., & Olson, SL (2023). Superhabitability of High-obliquity and High-eccentricity Planets. The Astrophysical Journal, 944(2): 205. [article]
Schwieterman EW, Olson SL, Pidhorodetska D, Reinhard CT, Ganti A, Fauchez TJ, Bastelberger ST, Crouse JS, Ridgwell A, Lyons TW (2022) Evaluating the Plausible Range of N2O Biosignatures on ExoEarths: An Integrated Biogeochemical, Photochemical, and Spectral Modeling Approach. Astrophysical Journal, 937: 109. [article] [press: USA Today]
Barnett MN, Olson SL. Moderately High Obliquity Promotes Biospheric Oxygenation. Planetary Science Journal 3: 132. [article] [press: Forbes]
Olson SL, Jansen MF, Abbot DS, Haley I, Goldblatt CZ. The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Implications for the Habitability of Archean Earth, Geophysical Research Letters 49: e2021GL095748. [article] [press: Newsweek]
Komacek TD, Kang W, Lustig-Yaeger J, Olson SL (2021) Constraining the climates of rocky exoplanets. Elements 17: 251-256
Checlair JH, Villanueva GL, Hayworth BPC, Olson SL, Komacek TD, Robinson TD, Popovic P, Yang H, Abbot DS (2021) Probing the Capability of Future Direct-imaging Missions to Spectrally Constrain the Frequency of Earth-like Planets. The Astronomical Journal 161: 150. [article]
Reinhard CT, Olson SL, Kirtland Turner S, Palike C, Kanzaki Y, Ridgwell A. (2020) Oceanic and Atmospheric Methane Cycling in the cGENIE Earth System Model. Geoscientific Model Development 13: 5687. [article]
Salazar A., Olson S.L., Komacek T., Stephens H., Abbot D.S. (2020) The Effect of Substellar Continent Size on the Ocean Dynamics of Proxima Centauri b. Astrophysical Journal Letters. [article]
Olson S.L, Jansen M.F., Abbot D.S. (2020) Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection. Astrophysical Journal, 895: 19. [article] [press: CNN, Fox News, Forbes]
Ostrander C., Kendall B., Olson S.L. et al. (2020) An expanded δ98Mo record permits recurrent shallow marine oxygenation during the Neoarchean. Chemical Geology 532, 119391.
Alcabes O.D.N., Olson S.L., Abbot D.S. (2020) Typical Climate Perturbations Unlikely to Disrupt Gaia Hypothesis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492:2572-2577.
Checlair J.H., Olson S.L., Abbot D.S. (2020) No Snowball on Habitable Tidally Locked Planets with a Dynamic Ocean. Astrophysical Journal Letters 884: L46. [article]
Gregory D.D., Mukherjee I, Large R.R., …, Olson S.L. et al. (2019). The formation mechanisms of sedimentary pyrite nodules determined by trace element and sulfur isotope microanalysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 259: 53-68.
Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L, Harman C.E., Lyons T.W. (2019) A limited habitable zone for complex life. Astrophysical Journal 878: 19. [article] [press: Fox News]
Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L., Ozaki K., Harman C.E., Lyons T.W. (2019) Rethinking CO "Anti-Biosignatures" in the Search for Life Beyond Earth. Astrophysical Journal 874: 9. [article]
Olson S.L., Ostrander C., Gregory D.D., Roy M., Anbar A.D., Lyons T.W. (2019) Volcanically modulated pyrite burial and ocean-atmosphere oxidation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 506: 417-427.
Olson S.L., Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Ridgwell A., Meadows V.S., Lyons T.W. (2018) Atmospheric seasonality as an exoplanet biosignature. Astrophysical Journal Letters 858: L14. [article] [press: Fox News]
Schwieterman E.W., Kiang N.Y., Parenteau M.N., … , Olson S.L., et al. (2018) Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life, Astrobiology 18: 663-708. [article]
Olson S.L., Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Lyons T.W. (2018). Earth: Atmospheric Evolution of a habitable planet, in Deeg HJ & Belmonte JA (eds), Handbook of Exoplanets.
Krissansen-Totton J., Olson S.L., Catling D.C. (2018). Disequilibrium biosignatures on Earth through time and implications for remote life detection, Science Advances 4: eaao5747. [article] [press: Los Angeles Times]
Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L., Schwieterman E.W., Lyons T.W. (2017) False Negatives for Remote Life Detection on Ocean-Bearing Planets: Lessons from the Early Earth. Astrobiology 17:287–297. [article] [press: NBC News]
Olson S.L., Reinhard C.T., Lyons T.W. (2016b) Cyanobacterial Diazotrophy and Earth’s Delayed Oxygenation. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1526.
Olson S.L., Reinhard C.T., Lyons T.W. (2016a) Limited role for methane in the mid-Proterozoic greenhouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:11447–11452. [article]
Reinhard C.T., Planavsky N.J., Olson S.L., Erwin D.H., Lyons T.W. (2016) Earth’s oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:8933–8938. [article]
Olson S.L., Kump L.R., Kasting J.F. (2013) Quantifying the areal extent and dissolved oxygen concentrations of Archean oxygen oases. Chemical Geology 362:35–43.
white papers & reports
Olson S.L. & Schwieterman E.W. (2019) Leveraging planetary seasonality to recognize habitability and to detect the pulse of a biosphere. LUVOIR Final Report, Appendix A.16
Lisman D., Schwieterman E.W., Seager S., ... , Olson S.L., et al. (2019) The Occulting Ozone Observatory (O3) Mission. [APC white paper submitted in response to the solicitation of feedback for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro 2020) by the National Academy of Sciences].
Lisman D., Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L, et al. (2019) Surveying the solar neighborhood for ozone in the UV at temperate rocky exoplanets. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51.
Krissansen-Totton J., Arney G., Catling C., ... , Olson S.L, et al. (2019) Atmospheric disequilibrium as an exoplanet biosignature: Opportunities for next generation telescopes. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51.
Arney G., Batalha N., Britt A.V., ... , Olson S.L. et al. (2019) The Sun-like Stars Opportunity. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51.
Reinhard C.T., Schwieterman E.W., Olson S.L., et al. (2019) The remote detectability of Earth's biosphere through time and the importance of UV capability for characterizing habitable exoplanets. arXiv:1903.05611 [astro-ph.EP]
Checlair J.H., Abbot D.S., ... , Olson S.L., et al. (2019) A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to Maximize the Scientific Return of Future Exoplanet Characterization Efforts. arXiv:1903.05211, 2019 [astro-ph.EP]
Schwieterman E.W., Reinhard C.T., Olson S.L., Lyons T.W. (2018) The Importance of UV Capabilities for Identifying Inhabited Exoplanets with Next Generation Space Telescopes. arXiv:1801.02744 [astro-ph.EP]
