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Tag: Tyler Robinson

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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Posted in: Alumni, Awards, Featured Filed under: Alumni, Awards, Cottrell Scholar Award, Tyler Robinson

Ty Robinson accepts Assistant Professorship at NAU!

May 10, 2017 astrobio

Dr. Tyler Robinson has been offered the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern…

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Posted in: Graduate Program Filed under: Tyler Robinson

Congratulations to UWAB members helping select the next NASA flagship mission!

March 31, 2016 astrobio

NASA has convened Science and Technology Definitions Teams (STDTs) to study large telescope concepts for future direct imaging of exoplanets.…

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Posted in: Administration Filed under: Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Tyler Robinson, Victoria Meadows

Is the pale blue dot unique?

January 20, 2016 astrobio

Voyager 1’s iconic image of the Pale Blue Dot shows hints of Earth’s uniqueness are visible from great distances; the…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Benjamin Charnay, David Catling, Eddie Schwieterman, Giada Arney, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Tyler Robinson, Victoria Meadows

Collisions Could Reveal “Invisible Gas” In Exoplanets

July 15, 2015 astrobio

UWAB graduate student Edward Schwieterman, professor Victoria Meadows, and researchers Tyler Robinson, Amit Misra, and Shawn Domagal-Goldman have demonstrated that…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: Amit Misra, Eddie Schwieterman, Tyler Robinson, Victoria Meadows

News From Our Alumni – Fall 2014

December 1, 2014 astrobio

Our list of alumni continues to grow as seven more graduates join the ranks. As of Fall 2014, we are…

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Posted in: Newsletter 2014 Filed under: Aomawa Shields, David J. Smith, Jesse Colangelo-Lillis, Ken Williford, Mark Claire, Nick Cowan, R Eric Collins, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Tyler Robinson

Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets

May 27, 2014 astrobio

UWAB alumnus Tyler Robinson and team have discovered that we can learn more about exoplanet atmospheres by observing sunsets on…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: Tyler Robinson

New Research Reveals Temperature Rule for Planetary Atmospheres

December 8, 2013 astrobio

UWAB researchers Tyler Robinson and David Catling have just published research in Nature Geoscience that reveals the reason for the…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: David Catling, Tyler Robinson

Greenhouse Gas May Explain Liquid Water on Early Mars

November 24, 2013 astrobio

While the evidence for liquid water on early Mars is well established, researchers have been hard-pressed to explain how this…

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Posted in: Media, Research Filed under: Tyler Robinson

New Estimates for the Probability of a Runaway Greenhouse

July 29, 2013 astrobio

Whether a planet is able to avoid a “runaway greenhouse” fate strongly depends on how close it is to the…

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Posted in: Research Filed under: Tyler Robinson

Graduate Student Ty Robinson Receives UWAB’s First Dual-Title PhD

August 2, 2012 astrobio

UWAB graduate student Ty Robinson successfully defended his dissertation “Simulating and Characterizing the Pale Blue Dot”, and graduates with our…

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Posted in: Graduate Program Filed under: Tyler Robinson
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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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