{"id":6075,"date":"2024-07-22T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2024-07-22T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:06:06","slug":"2022-uw-astrobiology-workshop-at-the-salt-lakes-of-the-cariboo-plateau-b-c-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/22\/2022-uw-astrobiology-workshop-at-the-salt-lakes-of-the-cariboo-plateau-b-c-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 UW Astrobiology workshop at the Salt Lakes of the Cariboo Plateau, B.C. Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Environmental Analogs for the Origin of Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"738\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Goodenough_Lake.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Goodenough_Lake.jpg 738w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Goodenough_Lake-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Goodenough_Lake-500x167.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><figcaption>Goodenough Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"738\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Last_Chance_Lake.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Last_Chance_Lake.jpg 738w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Last_Chance_Lake-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Last_Chance_Lake-500x154.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><figcaption>Last Chance Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why the lakes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prebiotic phosphorylation uses ~0.1-1 M phosphate but natural waters are ~1 \ud835\udf7bM.  Lakes concentrate by evaporation or freezing solving this prebiotic \u201cconcentration problem\u201d.  <em>Last Chance Lake <\/em>is the most phosphate-rich in the world. <em>Goodenough<\/em> is also relatively phosphate-rich. <strong><em>Why?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What was done<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinking through cr\u00e8me brulee crust  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"190\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6081\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Syringe sampling below <em>Last Chance\u2019s<\/em> salt crust &amp; filtering <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"229\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6082\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sediment Coring  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"217\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6083\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sediment core porewater extraction and\/or slicing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"217\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6084\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"637\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Group_Photo_nice.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Group_Photo_nice.png 637w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Group_Photo_nice-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Group_Photo_nice-500x214.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Analogs for the Origin of Life Why the lakes: Prebiotic phosphorylation uses ~0.1-1 M phosphate but natural waters are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075"}],"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=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}