Education & Public Outreach: 2003 - 2004 Highlights

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Public Access: Lectures and Presentations

While on the Arctic ice in February, 2004, oceanographer Jody Deming lectured on astrobiology and gave laboratory demonstrations in extremophile research to a group of high school students, including native Inuits, and their teachers brought aboard the ship for first-hand experience in the field and shipboard laboratories (go to http://www.cases.quebec-ocean.ulaval.ca/trip/log.asp, and click on February 2004, then 27 or 28).

Deming also hosted and gave a welcoming lecture to the Game Council, a dozen of the most influential Inuit elders from nearby native villages, who flew to the ship to witness the various scientific operations aboard a research icebreaker in the Arctic.

The Media Front: Interviewed UW Astrobiologists

Atmospheric scientist David Catling was filmed and interviewed by PBS for the "Space Millennium" series; was interviewed on NPR’s "Talk of the Nation" for a program about Mars science, history, and public perception; and was interviewed by Robert Burnham for an article in Astronomy concerning research on ice deposits in the Martian tropics.

Paleontologist Roger Buick was an interviewee twice on astrobiology topics for BBC; was interviewed for PBS (Nova) television; and was interviewed for the European newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Le Figaro.