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Tag: Diversity

UWAB Alum Giada Arney Highlighted by NASA for Women’s Equality Day

September 1, 2020 astrobio

UWAB Alum Giada Arney (Dual-Title PhD Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2016) was recently featured in a highlight from NASA Goddard Space…

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Posted in: Alumni, Featured, Media Filed under: Diversity, Giada Arney, Interview, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Venus, Virtual Planetary Laboratory

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

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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Posted in: Alumni, Awards, Featured, Media Filed under: Aomawa Shields, Awards, Diversity, Early Career, Grant, NSF
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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- Second Photo Description: (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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