SCIENCE

A selection of Tessa’s published science articles:

Fisher, T., Janin, E., & Walker, S. I. (2025). A Complex Systems Approach to Exoplanet Atmospheric Chemistry: New Prospects for Ruling Out the Possibility of Alien Life-As-We-Know-It. The Planetary Science Journal 6(5), 116. Link.

Fisher, T., Harman, C., Janin, E., Shabram, M., Tsai, S. M., Wogan, N., & Wong, M. (2025). Network and Kinetics-based Biosignatures: Implications for the Putative Habitable World Observatory Design. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04737. (White paper composed as part of the Network and Kinetics subteam of the HWO START Living Worlds Working Group). Link.

Grefenstette, N., Chou, L., Colón-Santos, S., Fisher, T. M., Mierzejewski, V., Nural, C., … & Weng, M. M. (2024). Life as We Don’t Know It. Astrobiology, 24(S1), S186-S201. Link.

Fisher, T., Kim, H., Millsaps, C., Line, M., & Walker, S. I. (2022). Inferring exoplanet disequilibria with multivariate information in atmospheric reaction networks. The Astronomical Journal, 164(2), 53. Link.

Sheikh, S., Berea, A., Davis, R., De la Torre, G. G., DeMarines, J., Fisher, T., … & Wright, J. T. (2021). Technosignatures as a Priority in Planetary Science. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 53(4), 427. Link

Walker S. I., Cronin L., Drew A., Domagal-Goldman S., Fisher T., Line M., and Millsaps C. (2020) Probabilistic Biosignature Frameworks. In Planetary Astrobiology (V. Meadows et al., eds.), pp. 477–503. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, DOI: 10.2458/azu_uapress_. Link.

Glaser, D.M., Hartnett, H.E., Desch, S.J., Unterborn, C.T., Anbar, A., Buessecker, S., Fisher, T., Glaser, S., Kane, S.R., Lisse, C.M. and Millsaps, C., (2020). Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds. The Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), p.163. Link.

Domagal-Goldman, S., Kiang, N. Y., Parenteau, N., Catling, D. C., DasSarma, S., Fujii, Y., … & Schwieterman, E. W. (2018). Life Beyond the Solar System: Remotely Detectable Biosignatures. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.06714. (White paper submitted to the National Academies of Sciences Study: Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe). Link.

Schwierterman, E.W., et al. (2018). Exoplanet biosignatures: a review of remotely detectable signs of life. Astrobiology 18(5). Link.

Fisher, T.M., and Schulze-Makuch, D. (2013). Nutrient and population dynamics in a subglacial reservoir: a simulation case study of the Blood Falls ecosystem with implications for astrobiology. International Journal of Astrobiology 12, 304–311. Link.