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Year: 2019

UWAB At AbSciCon

June 25, 2019 astrobio

Are you attending AbSciCon and have questions about the UW Astrobiology Program? We have a vendor table set-up outside of…

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Posted in: Administration, Events, Featured, Research Filed under: Andrew Lincowski, Andrew Shumway, Dale Winebrenner, David Catling, Dominic Sivitilli, Hannah Dawson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Jodi Young, Jonathan Toner, Kimberly Bott, Michael Brown, Michael Wong, Owen Lehmer, Rodrigo Luger, Rory, Victoria Meadows

Josh Krissansen-Totton earns Dual-Title PhD in Earth and Space Sciences & Astrobiology!

May 13, 2019 astrobio

Josh Krissansen-Totton (ESS/AB) successfully defended his dissertation. Please join the AB program in congratulating Josh for his achievements!

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Posted in: Featured, Graduate Program, Graduate Student Filed under: Joshua Krissansen-Totton

Prof. Roger Buick elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA)!

May 12, 2019 astrobio

Professor Roger Buick has been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). GSA Fellowships recognize a…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Media Filed under: Roger Buick

Brett Morris earns his Dual-Title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology!

April 27, 2019 astrobio

Brett Morris (Astronomy/AB) successfully defended his dissertation. His presentation was titled “The Effects of Stellar Magnetic Activity and Variability on…

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UWAB Prof. Sarah Keller Receives 2019 Cottrell Scholars STAR Award

April 9, 2019 astrobio

Recent addition to the UW Astrobiology Program, Prof. Sarah Keller (Chemistry) was recently announced as the recipient of a 2019…

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Posted in: Awards, Faculty, Featured, Media Filed under: Awards, Cottrell Scholar STAR Award, Sarah Keller, UW News

UWAB 2018 Fall Newsletter

March 29, 2019 astrobio

This year the UW Astrobiology Program has continued to advance the search for life in the Universe through both our research and our science leadership.

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The Spring 2019 Astrobiology Colloquium schedule has arrived!

March 27, 2019 astrobio

The UWAB Program’s Spring 2019 Colloquium Series schedule has been posted! It can be found here.

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New Website Design

February 24, 2019 astrobio

We have updated our website design!

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VPL Awarded 5 years of NASA Funding

January 22, 2019 astrobio

NASA awarded $11M to continue the work of the UW’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) for the next 5 years (an…

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Posted in: Administration, Featured, Research Filed under: NExSS, Victoria Meadows, Virtual Planetary Laboratory

UWAB Admissions Application Deadline Extended

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We have extended our admissions application deadline to January 31st, 2019! 

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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-

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(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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