Please join us for the NAI Early Earth Focus Group Workshop Without Walls on “The Hadean Earth-Moon System”. The workshop is aimed at providing the most up-to-date science on the […]
Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Microbial Hunting Found in 1.9 Billion Year Old Fossils
Tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like. […]
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Habitable Zones, Press Release
Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials
An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material contained in oceanic lava flows originated in Earth’s […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Mars, Press Release
Earth’s Saltiest Pond: Implications for Water on Mars
Antarctica’s Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond’s high salt content — by far the […]
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The Future of Geobiology: Perspectives from Graduate and Postdoctoral Research
Application Deadline: December 29, 2012 The Gordon Research Seminar happening January 26-27, 2013 in Ventura, CA, on Geobiology is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Press Release, Titan
Titan Shows Surprising Seasonal Changes
Detailed observations of Saturn’s moon Titan have now spanned 30 years, covering an entire solar orbit for this distant world.
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology
Astrobiology Grand Tour – Western Australia
This eleven-day scientific discovery tour that journeys from the Western Australian coastal town of Denham through the Pilbara will be a trip back in time. It is designed for scientists […]
Posted inArtemis & Lunar Exploration, Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Moon, Press Release
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Ice Content in Shackleton Crater on the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the […]
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Conferences and Meetings
Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences
Date: 1 – 13 July, 2012Location: Utrecht and Texel, Netherlands Application Deadline: 25 May, 2012 The second Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences will give PhD and advanced MSc students an […]
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Habitable Zones, Origin & Evolution of Life
New Study Sheds Light on Early Earth's Atmosphere
Geological background of the samples analyzed in this study. Panel A shows the geological map at Marble Bar and the location of the ABDP-1 drill core. Panel B shows the […]