{"id":1578,"date":"2012-03-28T20:17:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2020-11-10T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:24:36","slug":"uwab-faculty-alumni-use-fossilized-raindrop-imprints-to-explore-earths-ancient-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/28\/uwab-faculty-alumni-use-fossilized-raindrop-imprints-to-explore-earths-ancient-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"UWAB Faculty &#038; Alumni Use Fossilized Raindrop Imprints to Explore Earth&#8217;s Ancient Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v484\/n7394\/full\/nature10890.html\">much-anticipated paper<\/a> in <em>Nature<\/em>, UWAB faculty (Prof. Roger Buick &amp; David Catling) and alum (Sanjoy Som, PhD &#8217;10) have uncovered evidence &#8212; using 2.7 billion-year old, fossilized raindrop impressions &#8212; that an abundance of greenhouse gases in Earth&#8217;s ancient atmosphere likely caused warm temperatures that allowed the planet to retain liquid water&#8230; a crucial environmental component for the evolution of early life on our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the UW News release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/articles\/fossil-raindrop-impressions-imply-greenhouse-gases-loaded-early-atmosphere\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a much-anticipated paper in Nature, UWAB faculty (Prof. Roger Buick &amp; David Catling) and alum (Sanjoy Som, PhD &#8217;10)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[44,52,195],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}