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Tag: Awards

Prof. John Baross Receives NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

February 8, 2022 Miles Currie

NASA recognized Prof. John Baross for his exceptional achievements in the field of astrobiology, transforming the way we think about…

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Prof. Victoria Meadows Named 2022 AAS Fellow

January 25, 2022 Miles Currie

On January 5, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced its 2022 class of AAS Fellows, with the inductees being recognized…

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Prof. Victoria Meadows Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

August 2, 2021 Miles Currie

On July 15, the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) announced its newly elected members for 2021, “recognizing their outstanding…

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Hannah Dawson Awarded Hall Conservation Genetics Research Fund!

March 31, 2021 astrobio

Hannah Dawson (Oceanography) was recently awarded the Hall Conservation Genetics Research Fund from the UW College of the Environment for her…

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UWAB Prof. Jodi Young Awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 19, 2021 astrobio

UWAB Faculty member Jodi Young (Oceanography) has been awarded an early-career fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation! Prof. Young…

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UWAB Alum Tyler Robinson Receives 2021 Cottrell Scholar Award

February 11, 2021 astrobio

UWAB Alum, Tyler Robinson (PhD Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2012) was recently named as one of the 25 recipients of the…

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Dr. Sarah Keller Named as a Fellow of the Biophysical Society!

November 5, 2020 astrobio

UAWB Faculty member and VPL researcher Dr. Sarah Keller has been named a 2021 Fellow of the Biophysical Society for…

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UWAB Professor (Emeritus) Joe Felsenstein Awarded 2020 Friend of Darwin Award

October 27, 2020 astrobio

Joe Felsenstein, Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences, Biology and the Astrobiology Program, was recently awarded with a Friend of Darwin…

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Eliah Overbey Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship from NASA Space Biology Program!

October 22, 2020 astrobio

NASA has announced the award of 18 grants for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of…

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UWAB Graduate Student Yuk Chun Chan NASA FINESST Proposal Selected

August 26, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Graduate Certificate student Yuk Chun Chan (Atmospheric Sciences) and advisor Becky Alexander’s proposal for the 2020 NASA Future Investigators…

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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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Victoria Meadows Awarded 2018 Drake Award

December 4, 2018 astrobio

On June 14, at a ceremony at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, Prof. Victoria Meadows was awarded the 2018…

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UWAB Alum Aomawa Shields Earns Prestigious NSF Early Career Award

June 26, 2018 astrobio

UWAB Alum Aomawa Shields, Ph.D., the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor also in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at…

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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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