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Year: 2020

UWAB Alum Dr. Eddie Schwieterman Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

June 18, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Alum, and member of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory Research Group, Dr. Eddie Schwieterman (PhD. Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2016), was…

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Posted in: Alumni, Featured, Media Filed under: Ask and Astrobiologist, Eddie Schwieterman, SAGANet

Volcanic Activity and Changes in Earth’s Mantle Were Key to Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen

June 10, 2020 astrobio

UWAB postdoctoral researcher, Shintaro Kadoya, and his advisor Prof. David Catling have recently published a paper in Nature Communications that…

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Posted in: Faculty, Featured, Media, Postdocs, Research Filed under: David Catling, Early Earth, Nature, Oxygen, Shintaro Kadoya, UW News

Owen Lehmer Earns Dual-Title PhD in Earth and Space Sciences & Astrobiology!

June 4, 2020 astrobio

Owen Lehmer (ESS/AB) successfully defended his dissertation on Wednesday June 3rd via Zoom! Please join the AB program in congratulating…

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Posted in: Featured, Graduate Program, Graduate Student Filed under: Owen Lehmer

UWAB Students & Faculty Members Receive Honors & Awards

May 12, 2020 astrobio

Several students and faculty members of the UW Astrobiology Program have received honors, awards, and fellowships for their excellence in…

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Posted in: Awards, Faculty, Featured, Graduate Student Filed under: Addien Wray, Andrew Shumway, Jana Meixnerova, Max Showalter, Sharon Doty

UWAB Graduate Student Tyler Gordon’s STF Proposal Selected for Upgrading the UW Planetarium

April 3, 2020 astrobio

As part of a tuition at the University of Washington students are required to pay the Student Technology Fee (STF).…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Graduate Student Filed under: Tyler Gordon

Spring 2020 Colloquium Will Be Held Online Only!

April 2, 2020 astrobio

Our line-up for the Spring 2020 Colloquium series has been finalized and includes and mix of amazing experts from outside…

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UWAB Graduate Student Rudy Garcia awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

April 1, 2020 astrobio

Rudy Garcia (Dual-title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology) was recently announced (along with 2 other Astronomy department graduate students!) to…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Graduate Student Filed under: Rodolfo Garcia

UWAB Alum Aomawa Shields Featured in “Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM”

March 21, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Alum and University of California, Irvine Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in award-winning author Tonya Bolden’s book, Changing the Equation: 50+ US…

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Posted in: Alumni, Featured, Media Filed under: Alumni, Aomawa Shields, Book, Diversity, STEM

Andrew Lincowski Earns Dual-Title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology!

February 28, 2020 astrobio

Andrew Lincowski (Astronomy/AB) successfully defended his dissertation on Thursday February 27th! Please join the AB program in congratulating Andrew for…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Graduate Program, Graduate Student Filed under: Andrew Lincowski

UWAB Prof. Woody Sullivan Part of Inaugural Class of AAS Fellows!

February 26, 2020 astrobio

UWAB and Astronomy Professor (Emeritus) Woody Sullivan was recently announced as one of members of the inaugural class of Fellows…

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Posted in: Awards, Faculty, Featured, Media Filed under: Woody Sullivan

Earth’s Cousins: Upcoming Missions to Look for ‘Biosignatures’ in the Atmospheres of Nearby Worlds

February 20, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Director, and Primary Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Lab research group, Professor Victoria Meadows, gave an invited presentation this…

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Posted in: Faculty, Featured, Media Filed under: Victoria Meadows

Professor David Catling Awarded $1.2 M from the Simons Foundation for Continued Work into the Origin of Life

February 19, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Professor David Catling (Earth & Space Sciences Dept.) was recently awarded an additional $1.2M over 3 years (2020-2023) from…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Research Filed under: David Catling, Jonathan Toner, Roger Buick, Sarah Keller

Tiny, Ancient Meteorites Suggest Early Earth’s Atmosphere was Rich in Carbon Dioxide

January 27, 2020 astrobio

UWAB graduate student, Owen Lehmer (ESS), was the lead author of a new paper recently published in Science Advances. The…

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Posted in: Faculty, Featured, Graduate Student, Media, Research, Research Rotation Filed under: David Catling, Donald Brownlee, Owen Lehmer, Roger Buick

New Research from UWAB Faculty Members Finds Life Could Have Emerged from Lakes with High Phosphorus

January 7, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Faculty members Jonathan Toner (ESS) and David Catling (ESS) recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National…

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Posted in: Faculty, Featured, Media Filed under: David Catling, Jonathan Toner, Origin of Life, Publications

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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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