19-21 September 2006 Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC – Purpose: The purpose of this conference is to undertake a broad overview of the societal impact of space exploration, especially […]
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Astrobiology Summer Workshops for Educators Kick Off in Canada
Led by the E/PO Leads from NAI’s University of Arizona, teachers from across the country convened in Alberta, Canada this past weekend for a two day professional development experience focused […]
Posted inAstrogeology
Solomon Receives Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award
NAI congratulates Dr. Sean C. Solomon, Principal Investigator of Carnegie Institution of Washington’s NASA Astrobiology Institute and Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of CIW, on his receipt of […]
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Astrobiology Science News 7 June 2006
Palaeontology: Respect for stromatolites, Nature Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia, Nature Titan Radar Mapper observations from Cassini’s T3 fly-by, Nature Stabilization of the disk around beta-Pictoris […]
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Call for Papers: European Planetary Science Congress 2006
Europlanet #1, European Planetary Science Congress 2006, Berlin, Germany, 18 – 22 September 2006 – The intention of the European Planetary Science Congress 2006 is to cover a broad area […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Astrogeology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments
ISBOX II- UHNAI Expedition to Iceland
The ISBOX-II expedition lead by Eric Gaidos of the University of Hawaii NAI team will drill and sample a subglacial lake for microbiology and geochemistry. The expedition takes place June […]
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Astrobiology Science News 6 June 2006
Do ‘Planemos’ Have Progeny? Planetary-Mass Objects Found to be Surrounded by Discs, European Southern Observatory Study shows our ancestors survived ‘Snowball Earth’, University of Washington ISBOX II- UHNAI Expedition Journal […]
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Preview of This Week's Space Science Announcement
NASA FUSE Mission Briefing: Carbon-rich gas around a young star that may be forming terrestrial planets “NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 7, about […]
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Astrobiology Science News 5 June 2006
ISBOX II- UHNAI Expedition Journal 3 June 2006, University of Hawaii UGA researchers propose new hypothesis on the evolution of hot springs microorganisms, University of Georgia Jupiter’s “Big Brother” Has […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Student Summer Opportunity in Subseafloor Microbiology
Dave Goldberg at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, and his colleague Howard Shuman, Professor of Microbiology at Columbia University, have funding and an immediate opening for a summer student / intern […]