The UW Astrobiology Program Presents the 25th Anniversary Lecture Series!
Professor Sharon Doty Named AAAS Fellow
UW Astrobiology Remembers Professor James T. Staley
UWAB Members Featured in College of Environment’s FieldSound Podcast
Over the past 20 years our program has trained the next generation of astrobiologists and made significant advances in understanding how to search for life beyond the Earth. Our program offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary dual-title PhD in a home department and Astrobiology, as well as a graduate certificate in Astrobiology. Our alumni have gone on to exciting careers at universities, government labs and elsewhere. Below we showcase the achievements of students, faculty and alumni, and on other pages you can learn about how to apply to our graduate program, learn more about our research and outreach activities, and find out the latest on our colloquium series and public events.
From Our Most Recent Newsletter
Research Highlight
Our UW Astrobiology Program members have made exciting scientific discoveries and published many research updates over the past year. Prof Brook Nunn (Genome Sciences) and her colleagues recently published their work detailing how polar microbes can shed light on ways to detect potential life in icy bodies in our solar system!
Alumni Updates
The UW Astrobiology Program has graduated over 60 alumni, who have exciting careers as faculty members, scientists, university researchers, industry specialists and, entrepreneurs. They’ve all been hard at work this past year and have shared some of their achievements, awards, and scientific publications with us here.
Recent Updates
- The UW Astrobiology Program Presents the 25th Anniversary Lecture Series!
UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate… - Professor Sharon Doty Named AAAS Fellow
UWAB would like to recognize UW Environment & Forest Sciences and Astrobiology professor, Dr. Sharon… - UW Astrobiology Remembers Professor James T. Staley
The UW Astrobiology program remembers our founding Director, Jim Staley. Jim came to the University… - Space Observatories: Learning Lessons from Yesterday to Build the Systems of TomorrowDr. Jonathan W. Arenberg Northrop Grumman Space Astronomy is a science driven by observation. Since…
- UWAB Members Featured in College of Environment’s FieldSound Podcast
This week UWAB faculty member, Jodi Young, and postdoctoral researcher, Fabian Klenner, joined the UW… - Sediment cycles record past lunar distance and length of day
Alberto MalinvernoLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Astronomical cycles have been widely recognized to drive climatic changes… - Paleoenvironmental context in searching for past life on Mars
Professor Kathy Campbell Abstract: The search for life beyond Earth occupies exploration efforts of space… - Astrobiology Workshop 2023: New Mexico
by Ardith Bravenec Carlsbad Caverns The workshop begins at Carlsbad Caverns, a natural wonder known… - 2022 UW Astrobiology workshop at the Salt Lakes of the Cariboo Plateau, B.C. Canada
Environmental Analogs for the Origin of Life Why the lakes: Prebiotic phosphorylation uses ~0.1-1 M… - 2022 Virtual Workshop- Mission to Detect LifeGOALS: 1.LEARN 1.Instrument capabilities/limitations 2.Experimental design- 3.Sample management on site 4.Data types and structure 5.Data…