{"id":6159,"date":"2024-10-21T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6159"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:14:23","slug":"alexandra-papesh","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/alexandra-papesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Papesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I grew up in Redding, California, and I became interested in planetary science when I joined my middle school&#8217;s NASA team. I earned my BS in Physics with a concentration in Astronomy and a minor in Mathematics at Cal Poly Humboldt. My undergraduate research experience was in better understanding gravity: working to analyze short-range gravitational interactions and more precisely measuring the Newtonian gravitational constant G. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests are focused on the evolution and habitability of terrestrial planets. I believe that the search for life beyond our planet is a fundamental human curiosity, and an important way to better inform our understanding of life on Earth. I am particularly interested in the science involved in understanding how planets may evolve to be hospitable to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from academics, I love to spend time reading, hanging out with my two cats, and exploring the natural world (especially by rockhounding).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in Redding, California, and I became interested in planetary science when I joined my middle school&#8217;s NASA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6324,"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\/6159"}],"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\/6159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6159\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"profile_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_types?post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}