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Year: 2015

The unusual architecture of the υ Andromedae planetary system

December 18, 2015 astrobio

The star υ Andromedae has 3 known planets orbiting it, all three close to or greater than the size of…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Rodrigo Luger, Rory Barnes, Russell Deitrick, Tom Quinn

Rika Anderson’s new professorship

December 14, 2015 astrobio

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rika Anderson for her new appointment as an Assistant Professor at Carleton College. A…

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Posted in: Graduate Program Filed under: Rika Anderson

UWAB 2015 Fall Newsletter

December 1, 2015 astrobio

Our last year was a productive and exciting one! We graduated five students:

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Posted in: Newsletter

Where to look for life?

October 5, 2015 astrobio

UWAB astronomers Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows, and research assistant Nicole Evans have co-authored a paper on how to prioritize targets…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: Nicole Evans, Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows

2015 Workshop: Yellowstone

October 1, 2015 astrobio

UWAB student Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (Astronomy) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on his experience: In September (2015), students from the University…

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Posted in: Workshop

Collisions Could Reveal “Invisible Gas” In Exoplanets

July 15, 2015 astrobio

UWAB graduate student Edward Schwieterman, professor Victoria Meadows, and researchers Tyler Robinson, Amit Misra, and Shawn Domagal-Goldman have demonstrated that…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: Amit Misra, Eddie Schwieterman, Tyler Robinson, Victoria Meadows

Atmospheric signs of volcanic activity could aid search for life

June 10, 2015 astrobio

UW Astrobiology graduate students Amit Misra, Josh Krissansen-Totton, Matt Koehler and Steve Sholes have collaborated on an interdisciplinary paper on…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Matthew Koehler, Steven Sholes

Beyond Human: Animals, Aliens, and Artificial Intelligence!

May 15, 2015 astrobio

UWAB and Museology graduate student, Wolf Clifton, has launched his Masters project, which is an ,a href=”http://animalpeopleforum.org/beyondhuman/”>online exhibit titled “Beyond Human: Animals, Aliens, and Artificial Intelligence!”

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Posted in: Graduate Program Filed under: Wolf Clifton

Searching for Alien Biosignatures: Non-Photosynthetic Organisms May Produce Novel Signatures of Life on Exoplanets

May 7, 2015 astrobio

UWAB graduate student Edward Schwieterman, professor Victoria Meadows, and professor Charles Cockell at the UK Centre for Astrobiology present an…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Eddie Schwieterman, Victoria Meadows

A whiff of ancient oxygen supported by selenium isotopes

March 1, 2015 astrobio

UWAB Postdoc Eva Stüeken, Professor Roger Buick, and collaborators showed in a new paper that there was a brief interval…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Eva Stueeken, Roger Buick

Stars May Change Mini-Neptunes into Habitable Planets

February 12, 2015 astrobio

UWAB graduate student Rodrigo Luger, professors Rory Barnes and Victoria Meadows, and collaborators have found that some terrestrial planets in…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Rodrigo Luger, Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows

New Venus Studies Probe the Dynamic Atmosphere Below the Clouds and Reveal the Complexities of Hazy Worlds

February 10, 2015 astrobio

UWAB graduate student, Giada Arney, and VPL colleagues, present the first maps of cloud opacity, droplet sulfuric acid percentage, and…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Giada Arney
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Last April, 4 grad students, accompanied by Prof. Last April, 4 grad students, accompanied by Prof. Baptiste Journaux and funded by the UWAB program, documented the 2024 total solar eclipse. The team traveled to Arkansas to reach the center of the 115-mile band of totality stretching from Texas to Maine, and were the subject of a CENV mini-documentary!

The eclipse team delivered a talk about their trip and outreach work to the rest of the UWAB community on October 15th! Thanks to Baptiste Journaux, Sarah Smith, Alysa Fintel, Andrew Shumway, Haskelle White-Gianella, and Ula Jones for representing the program! 

See the full Eclipse Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD1IpJYI9NQ
… or watch their UWAB Colloquium Talk here: https://youtu.be/TG5QlVPq8rg?si=gIH2hKHxd7JsFpz-

Second Photo Description:
(left to right) Sarah Smith, Baptiste Journaux, Alysa Fintel, Andrew Shumway, Haskelle White-Gianella, and Ula Jones at Calico Rock AK just after the total solar eclipse on April 8 2024.
On October 8th, UWAB hosted Dr. Kathy Campbell - a On October 8th, UWAB hosted Dr. Kathy Campbell - a geologist, paleoecologist and astrobiologist from the University of Auckland! Dr. Campbell spoke about her work investigating extreme environments as analog settings for early life on Earth. She uses a comparative paleoenvironmental approach to searching for evidence of past life in Martian rocks by focusing on Earth’s hot spring deposits and unusual hydrothermal silica found by Spirit rover at Columbia Hills on Mars. 

In other words, her work helps us understand geochemical signs of past life, which is used to inform biosignature detection on Mars! 

The colloquium recording is now available on our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/hYuuMY-yNu4
This week UWAB faculty member, Jodi Young, and pos This week UWAB faculty member, Jodi Young, and postdoctoral researcher, Fabian Klenner, joined the UW College of Environment’s Extreme Environments podcast, FieldSound, to teach the community about how extreme environments on Earth can inform us about the search for life on distant exoplanets and icy moons, such as Europa and Enceladus!

Jodi Young studies how marine microalgae shape our ecosystems, flourishing in the harsh icy brine environments of Earth’s polar regions. Fabian Klenner combines experimentation and modeling to understand the oceans of icy moons and biosignature detection. In the FieldSound podcast, Young and Klenner discuss topics including the Solar System’s icy moons, marine fieldwork, and the Europa Clipper mission – demonstrating how astrobiology is a field of extreme interdisciplinary collaboration! 

Listen to their full podcast here:
https://environment.uw.edu/news/2024/10/s3-e2-astrobiology-with-jodi-young-and-fabian-klenner/
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