UWAB students Hannah Dawson and Susan Rundell (Oceanography), alongside their advisor, Prof. Jodi Young, have recently been featured in a…
UWAB Professor David Catling (Earth & Space Sciences Dept.) was recently awarded an additional $1.2M over 3 years (2020-2023) from…
UWAB graduate student, Owen Lehmer (ESS), was the lead author of a new paper recently published in Science Advances. The…
UWAB Faculty Member Sharon Doty (SEFS) and her team’s research were recently featured in an article in the Fall ’19…
New research from UWAB students, and VPL Team members, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Andrew Lincowski, and their faculty advisor Dr. Victoria Meadows,…
In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Virtual Planetary Lab (VPL) team…
Several of our students, faculty members, and researchers, have recently been highlighted in various articles from the UW News in…
Are you attending AbSciCon and have questions about the UW Astrobiology Program? We have a vendor table set-up outside of…
Brett Morris (Astronomy/AB) successfully defended his dissertation. His presentation was titled “The Effects of Stellar Magnetic Activity and Variability on…
NASA awarded $11M to continue the work of the UW’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) for the next 5 years (an…
Profs. Jonathan(PI) and David Catling (Co-I) were awarded a new 3-year NASA Habitable Worlds grant for a project with the…
The TRAPPIST-1 system hosts seven terrestrial-sized planets, in and around the habitable zone of their small M dwarf host star.…
Work by UW NASA astrobiology postdoc, Kenzie Day (who has just started as an Assistant Professor at UCLA), and her…
UW researchers in the Virtual Planetary Laboratory led and were co-authors on a series of papers published in the journal Astrobiology outlining…
Astrobiology Graduate Certificate and Physics Ph.D. student Marshall Styczinski, was just awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)!…
A paper by Astrobiology student Mike Kipp (ESS) and UWAB Alumna Eva Stueeken (2014), now at University of St Andrews…
AB graduate student Steven Sholes is the lead author of a paper that uses a one-dimensional photochemical model to consider…
UWAB graduate students Michael Diamond and Andrew Lincowski have been awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships (NESSF). Michael Diamond’s…
Elena Amador, ESS & Astrobiology, is the lead author of a recently published paper showing evidence of aqueous activity and…
Rodrigo Luger, Astronomy & Astrobiology, is the lead author of a new paper accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal.…
A new study led by UWAB alum Sanjoy Som together with UWAB professors Roger Buick and David Catling and others…
UWAB postdoc Eva Stüeken, Professor Roger Buick, and collaborators published a new paper that studied isotope ratios of selenium, a trace element. Their results show that biological productivity of macro-organisms collapsed during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but the collapse was probably not caused by a shortage of nutrients. Other factors such as ocean acidification or perturbations of food webs may have been more important.
Voyager 1’s iconic image of the Pale Blue Dot shows hints of Earth’s uniqueness are visible from great distances; the…
The star υ Andromedae has 3 known planets orbiting it, all three close to or greater than the size of…
UWAB astronomers Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows, and research assistant Nicole Evans have co-authored a paper on how to prioritize targets…