We’ve had a busy and productive year with a focus on maintaining our excellence while expanding our program.
UWAB students Eva Stueeken (ESS) and Meg Smith (ESS) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on their experiences: Hands-On Paleontology in Hell Creek,…
UWAB researchers Tyler Robinson and David Catling have just published research in Nature Geoscience that reveals the reason for the…
While the evidence for liquid water on early Mars is well established, researchers have been hard-pressed to explain how this…
Congratulations to Rika Anderson for graduating with UWAB’s fourth Dual-Title PhD! Rika successfully defended her dissertation on October 18th, 2013,…
Next week (Sep. 8-12), our students will be traveling to Montana for UWAB’s annual workshop, where they will learn about…
Whether a planet is able to avoid a “runaway greenhouse” fate strongly depends on how close it is to the…
Congratulations to Marcela Ewert Sarmiento for graduating with UWAB’s first dual-title PhD in Oceanography & Astrobiology! Marcela successfully defended her…
Graduate student Aomawa Shields, along with a team of other UWAB researchers, has recently published research arguing that planets orbiting cooler…
UW Astronomer Rory Barnes, along with a team of international collaborators, have just announced their discovery of three potentially-habitable ‘super-Earth’…
Last week, NASA’s Kepler space telescope team announced the discovery of three “super-Earth” sized planets in the habitable zone
In the latest discovery from the Kepler Space Telescope, UW astronomer Eric Agol has identified Kepler-62f: an exoplanet in its…
Last month at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Woodlands, Texas, UWAB graduate student Elena Amador won the Dwornik Award…
In his latest paper, recently featured in Astrobiology, UWAB’s Rory Barnes explores the evolution of hypothetical “Tidal Venuses”, tidally-heated terrestrial exoplanets…
Research by UWAB’s Rory Barnes has been featured as the cover story in the latest issue of Astrobiology! In the…
Graduate student David Smith’s work on microorganisms in the upper atmosphere was recently featured in the Editor’s Choice section of…