{"id":1582,"date":"2012-03-18T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2020-10-22T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:01:22","slug":"uwab-alumni-uncover-the-ingredients-of-earths-ancient-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/18\/uwab-alumni-uncover-the-ingredients-of-earths-ancient-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"UWAB Alumni Uncover the Ingredients of Earth&#8217;s Ancient Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UWAB alum Mark Claire and former UWAB\/Virtual Planetary Lab Postdoc Shawn Domagal-Goldman are co-authors on the Nature Geosciences paper, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/abs\/ngeo1425.html\">A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth<\/a>&#8221; that provides geochemical evidence that methane was an important component of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere throughout the Archaean era more than 2.5 billion years ago.The paper has received wide attention in the scientific and news community including <em><a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2012\/03\/19\/early-earth-turned-methane-haze-on-and-off\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21598-haze-clears-on-ancient-earths-early-atmosphere.html\">New Scientist<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/03\/scienceshot-an-atmospheric-flip-.html\">Science Magazine<\/a><\/em>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/articles\/early-earth-air-quality-code-orange\/\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWAB alum Mark Claire and former UWAB\/Virtual Planetary Lab Postdoc Shawn Domagal-Goldman are co-authors on the Nature Geosciences paper, &#8220;A&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":[208,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}