AB graduate Jeff Bowman has been hired to a faculty position in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He will use genomic tools and other methods to explore microbial ecosystem function in the global ocean, and will continue to use this knowledge to better understand the habitability of Europa and other ocean worlds in our solar system. He’s an active member of the NASA Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds (ROW) working group, he’s on the steering committee of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG), and was a contributing author on the recently published Astrobiology Primer (along with an impressive number of other UW Astrobiology alumni and affiliates).