{"id":5548,"date":"2023-01-27T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5548"},"modified":"2023-01-27T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:53:58","slug":"autum-downey","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/autum-downey\/","title":{"rendered":"Autum Downey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My astrobiology research areas: geomicrobiology, extremophiles, aqueous chemistry, trace metal cycling, surface chemistry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BSc and MSc in Geology from West Virginia.\u00a0 Work on organic carbon cycling within cave systems sparked an ongoing research interest in geochemical and biochemical cycling in extreme environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current work is focused on nutrient acquisition by a thermophilic methanogen in a deep sea environment. This work has implications for understanding potential biosignatures for life on early earth and other planets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am super excited about learning things outside of my immediate expertise through the astrobiology program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my free time I love to hike, read, and play video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My astrobiology research areas: geomicrobiology, extremophiles, aqueous chemistry, trace metal cycling, surface chemistry BSc and MSc in Geology from West&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5549,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[],"profile_types":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5552,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5548\/revisions\/5552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"profile_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_types?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}