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Category: Featured

Watch the Recordings: The UWAB 25th Anniversary Lecture Series!

March 31, 2025 Megan Gialluca

Recordings are now available for the UWAB 25th Anniversary Lecture Series! You can watch them at this playlist below (it…

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Professor Sharon Doty Named AAAS Fellow

Megan Gialluca

UWAB would like to recognize UW Environment & Forest Sciences and Astrobiology professor, Dr. Sharon Doty, who has been selected…

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UW Astrobiology Remembers Professor James T. Staley

March 27, 2025 Megan Gialluca

The UW Astrobiology program remembers our founding Director, Jim Staley. Jim came to the University of Washington in 1971 as…

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Space Observatories: Learning Lessons from Yesterday to Build the Systems of Tomorrow

October 25, 2024 Megan Gialluca

Dr. Jonathan W. Arenberg Northrop Grumman Space Astronomy is a science driven by observation. Since 1609, those observations have required…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Graduate Program Filed under: Colloquium, Featured

UWAB Members Featured in College of Environment’s FieldSound Podcast

Picture of Jodi Young and Fabian Klenner in front of the FieldSound Podcast logo banner
October 16, 2024 Megan Gialluca

This week UWAB faculty member, Jodi Young, and postdoctoral researcher, Fabian Klenner, joined the UW College of Environment’s Extreme Environments…

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Sediment cycles record past lunar distance and length of day

August 23, 2024 astrobio

Alberto MalinvernoLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Astronomical cycles have been widely recognized to drive climatic changes that are recorded by cyclic sediment…

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Paleoenvironmental context in searching for past life on Mars

August 21, 2024 astrobio

Professor Kathy Campbell Abstract:  The search for life beyond Earth occupies exploration efforts of space agencies and researchers, and captures…

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Applications Open for the Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Washington

July 8, 2024 Miles Currie

The UW community supports research efforts in exoplanet and planetary science and astrobiology, primarily within the Astronomy and Earth and…

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UWAB 25th Anniversary Event: Astrobiology Careers Panel

May 10, 2024 Miles Currie

As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the University of Washington Astrobiology Program, we will be hosting an Astrobiology…

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Recent UWAB Alum Dominic Sivitilli Accepts Postdoc at UW-APL

May 3, 2024 Miles Currie

Dr. Dominic Sivitilli (dual-title PhD in Psychology and Astrobiology) will continue on at the University of Washington, where he has…

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UWAB Alum Eliah Overby Accepts Professorship at UATX!

Miles Currie

Dr. Eliah Overby, who completed her dual title PhD in genome sciences and astrobiology at UW, has recently accepted an…

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Coupling Planetary and Ecosystem Modeling to Asses Habitability and
Inhabitation in the Solar System and beyond

April 1, 2024 astrobio

Stephane Mazevet Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, University Côte d’Azur, Nice (France) With thousands of exoplanets now identified, the characterization…

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Posted in: Administration, Events, Featured Filed under: Colloquium

Congratulations to Fang-Zhen Teng, elected Fellow of the Geochemical Society

February 23, 2024 Miles Currie

Fang-Zhen Teng has been elected a Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry for an exceptionally strong…

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Did life begin in a “warm little pond”?

Miles Currie

Astrobiology graduate student Ula Jones was featured in a Wiki Education article for her contributions to Wikipedia’s coverage of the…

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UWAB 25th Anniversary Kickoff Event— Astronomy on Tap

February 13, 2024 Miles Currie

Join us in celebrating the 25th anniversary of UW Astrobiology at Astronomy on Tap (AoT) on Wednesday, February 28th at…

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New NPP Opportunity Available with VPL!

January 12, 2024 Miles Currie

To advance NASA’s search for life on exoplanets, the Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) focuses on a compelling scientific question: “How…

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American Geophysical Union Honors UWAB Researchers

November 21, 2023 Miles Currie

Each year, AGU recognizes individuals and teams for their accomplishments in research, education, science communication and outreach. Honorees and their…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Research Filed under: Baptiste Journaux, David Catling, Jody Deming, Victoria Meadows

Work of UWAB Director Prof. Victoria Meadows Featured in AAS Nova

Miles Currie

The work of VPL PI Prof. Victoria Meadows was recently featured in AAS Nova. Her work, along with UWAB alumni…

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Posted in: Featured, Research Filed under: Andrew Lincowski, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Victoria Meadows

UWAB Researchers Featured in Aeon Article: Uncertain Contact

Miles Currie

UWAB researcher David Catling and alumnus Edward Schwieterman have been featured in an Aeon article on combating the uncertainty associated…

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Posted in: Featured, Research Filed under: David Catling, Eddie Schwieterman, Victoria Meadows

UW News: Polar experiments reveal seasonal cycle in Antarctic sea ice algae

November 20, 2023 Miles Currie

UWAB researchers Hannah Dawson and Jodi Young have recently been featured in UW News, who reports on their recent paper…

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Posted in: Featured, Research Filed under: Hannah Dawson, Jodi Young

Building a Wet Planet from Dry Materials

October 31, 2023 astrobio

Zoom Link for Colloquium 10/31/2023 3:00pm PST Please email astrobio@uw.edu for zoom presentation password Presented by Dan Shim Professor, School…

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Ice Grains from Enceladus and Europa as Carriers of Potential Life

October 10, 2023 astrobio

Zoom Link for Colloquium 10/31/2023 3:00pm PST Please email astrobio@uw.edu for zoom presentation password Presented by Fabian Klenner Postdoc University…

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“The origin of Mercury’s structure and chemical composition and their astrobiological implications”

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Zoom Link for Colloquium 10/24/2023 3:00pm PST Please email astrobio@uw.edu for zoom presentation password Presented by Asmaa Boujibar assistant professor…

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Looking Ahead to the Future of Exoplanet Climate Modeling

October 9, 2023 Miles Currie

Zoom Link for Colloquium 10/17/2023 3:00pm PST Please email astrobio@uw.edu for zoom presentation password Presented By Linda Sohl  Senior Staff…

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Key Building Block of Life Detected on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

July 24, 2023 astrobio

An international team, including UW Astrobiology Postdoctoral researcher Fabian Klenner, discovered phosphorus in the form of phosphates on Saturn’s icy…

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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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