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Category: Workshop

Astrobiology Workshop 2023: New Mexico

July 25, 2024 astrobio

by Ardith Bravenec Carlsbad Caverns The workshop begins at Carlsbad Caverns, a natural wonder known for its extensive underground limestone…

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2022 UW Astrobiology workshop at the Salt Lakes of the Cariboo Plateau, B.C. Canada

July 22, 2024 astrobio

Environmental Analogs for the Origin of Life Why the lakes: Prebiotic phosphorylation uses ~0.1-1 M phosphate but natural waters are…

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2022 Virtual Workshop- Mission to Detect Life

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GOALS: 1.LEARN 1.Instrument capabilities/limitations 2.Experimental design- 3.Sample management on site 4.Data types and structure 5.Data analysis/interpretation 6.Importance of replication 7.How…

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Genomics Workshop

November 9, 2019 astrobio

Article Written by Eliah Overbey Photo Credit: Mike Wong What microbes are present in extreme environments? How genetically diverse are…

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2019 UWAB Annual Workshop at Friday Harbor Labs

October 23, 2019 astrobio

Article Written by Dominic Sivitili Among the grey autumn seas of the San Juan Islands and the stunningly green campus…

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UW Astrobiology Workshop: Death Valley 2018

December 4, 2018 astrobio

By: Jana Meixnerová, ESS Department In later October 2018, 12 graduate students and 4 senior staff members of the UW Astrobiology…

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2018 Workshop: Death Valley

November 11, 2018 astrobio

UWAB student Jana Meixnerová (ESS Department) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on the experience: In later October 2018, 12…

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2017 Workshop: NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

May 6, 2018 astrobio

Our 2017 workshop took us to Pasadena California to visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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2016 Workshop: Mt. Rainer

October 6, 2016 astrobio

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2015 Workshop: Yellowstone

October 1, 2015 astrobio

UWAB student Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (Astronomy) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on his experience: In September (2015), students from the University…

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2014 Workshop: Oceanography Aboard the Tommy G. Thompson

December 2, 2014 astrobio

UWAB students Russell Deitrick (Astronomy) and Meg Smith (ESS) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on their experiences: On a Thursday morning in…

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2013 Workshop: Paleontology in Hell Creek, Montana

December 12, 2013 astrobio

UWAB students Eva Stueeken (ESS) and Meg Smith (ESS) attended this year’s workshop, and reported back on their experiences: Hands-On Paleontology in Hell Creek,…

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2012 Workshop: From JPL to MWO

November 1, 2012 astrobio

This November 28-30, fourteen of our graduate students traveled to Pasadena, CA, to visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as…

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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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