{"id":3592,"date":"2020-01-27T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:16:56","slug":"tiny-ancient-meteorites-suggest-early-earths-atmosphere-was-rich-in-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/27\/tiny-ancient-meteorites-suggest-early-earths-atmosphere-was-rich-in-carbon-dioxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny, Ancient Meteorites Suggest Early Earth\u2019s Atmosphere was Rich in Carbon Dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UWAB graduate student, Owen Lehmer (ESS), was the lead author of a new paper recently <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/6\/4\/eaay4644\">published in Science Advances<\/a>.  The research estimates atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 2.7 billion years ago from oxidation induced in micrometeorites as they fell through the atmosphere from space!  Owen&#8217;s work on this projected was conducted as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/student-guide\/research-rotation\/\">Research Rotation<\/a> requirement for the Dual-Title PhD program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-authors on the paper include UWAB faculty David Catling, Roger Buick and Don Brownlee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen&#8217;s work has also been featured in a recent UW News article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/24\/tiny-ancient-meteorites-suggest-early-earths-atmosphere-was-rich-in-carbon-dioxide\/\">which you can read here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWAB graduate student, Owen Lehmer (ESS), was the lead author of a new paper recently published in Science Advances. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[47,13,21,32,33,38],"tags":[44,51,50,52],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592"}],"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=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}