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Posted Planetary Protection: A Work in Progress to Astrobiology
For the past few years, a research team in Antarctica has been drilling through several miles of ice in an effort to reach Lake Vostok. Lake Vostok is the largest of a number of bodies of fresh water trapped deep... -
Posted 2013 Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference to Astrobiology
Registration and abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2013. The 5th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology (PAM5) will be held in Big Sky, Montana (USA) from 8-12 September 2013. This meeting will be a continuation of the highly successful... -
Posted Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities at Harvard University Origins of Life to Astrobiology
The Harvard Origins of Life Initiative is a multi-disciplinary research program at the intersection of biochemistry and planetary astronomy. Our goal is to discover how the initial conditions on planets, including our Earth, determined their biochemistry and life forms. This... -
Posted Postdoctoral Position at University of Hawaii - Department of Chemistry & W.M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry to Astrobiology
One postdoctoral position in experimental physical chemistry and chemical physics (reaction dynamics, astrobiology, astrochemistry) is open at the Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, for the period of one year, initially, to investigate the formation of dipeptides in... -
Posted Last Call for the 2013 NASA Astrobiology Program Minority Institution Research Support Program to Astrobiology
Do you have a colleague at a minority serving institution (MSI) with whom you would like to work with more closely? Do you have a current Astrobiology Program project and would like to host a faculty member from a MSI?... -
Posted Stellar Stoichiometry - Workshop Without Walls to Astrobiology
The Astrobiology group at Arizona State University is proud to sponsor Stellar Stoichiometry, April 11-12, 2013. This workshop will examine the growing evidence that elemental abundance ratios of stars vary considerably from solar, and discuss the consequences of elemental variability... -
Posted Gordon Research Conference: Biological Mechanisms in Evolution in Basic Biology, Cancer, Infectious Disease and Medicine to Astrobiology
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 5, 2013: This GRC will be held at Stonehill College in Easton, MA (USA) June 2-7, 2013.... -
Posted 10th International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms - Halophiles 2013 to Astrobiology
Deadline for Abstract Submission - April 30th: The 10th international Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms - Halophiles 2013, will be held on the campus of the University of Connecticut, Storrs from June 23rd - 27th 2013.... -
Posted Goldschmidt 2013 - Deep Subsurface Fluids, Habitability and Microbial Ecosystems to Astrobiology
August 25 - 30, 2013 in Florence, Italy - Abstract Submission Deadline: April 12, 2013: Convenors: Matt Schrenk, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Chris Ballentine - Keynote: Eric Boyd (Montana State University)... -
Posted Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Cooperative Agreement Notice to Astrobiology
Proposal Due Date: April 10, 2013 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is soliciting the submission of multiinstitutional team-based proposals for research as participating members of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), hereafter referred to as... -
Posted NASA Seeks New Director for the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) to Astrobiology
The ideal candidate will be an internationally recognized scientist with proven experience in leading large, multi-disciplinary, multi-site research programs or projects, possessed with a vision for leading the Institute into the future. Established in 1998 as part of NASA's Astrobiology... -
Posted Summer Course: Molecules in Space to Astrobiology
Date: 25 June - 2 July, 2013 Location: Kungsbacka, Sweden Application Deadline: 2 April 2013 The summer course "Molecules in space", which will be held at Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden from 25 June to 2 July 2013, aims to give... -
Posted 13th European Workshop on Astrobiology - EANA'13 to Astrobiology
Date: 22 - 25 July, 2013 Location: Szczecin, Poland Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2013 The next EANA workshop (EANA'13) will be held in Szczecin, Poland, on July 22-25, 2013. The focus will be on: * Astrochemistry, interstellar medium; *... -
Posted AbGradCon 2013, Abstract submission now open to Astrobiology
Abstract submission Deadline: March 1, 2013 The 10th annual Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon), an interdisciplinary conference organized by and for graduate students and early career scientists, will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from June 10th -... -
Posted The 5th UK Astrobiology Society of Britain Conference: Molecules and Life in Extremes to Astrobiology
To understand the origin of life, how life has persisted on the Earth for over 3.5 billion years and whether we might find it elsewhere, requires that we understand how life and molecules adapt to extreme environments. The 5th UK... -
Posted Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Explores Habitable Worlds Across Time and Space to Astrobiology
Within a matter of years, humanity will know for the first time the frequency of terrestrial planets in orbit around other stars. This knowledge will pave the way for joining research from astronomy, Earth science, and biology to understand the... -
Posted NASA Finally Responds To Simple Questions About the New Horizons Mission to Pluto to SpaceRef
Three months ago I asked the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) some simple questions regarding possible changes to the New Horizons encounter with Pluto based on recent data indicating debris in the region.... -
Posted Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator to Astrobiology
This week, fizzy ocean water and the alkaline fluid that bubbles up from deep ocean vents are coursing through a structure at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. that is reminiscent of the pillared Emerald City in the Wizard... -
Posted Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project FAR-DEEP to Astrobiology
Earth's present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system. One of the earliest... -
Posted NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Cooperative Agreement Notice to Astrobiology
Solicitation Number: NNH13ZDA006C Posted Date: January 10, 2013 Proposal Due Date: April 10, 2013 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is soliciting the submission of multiinstitutional team-based proposals for research as participating members of the Solar System Exploration Research... -
Posted The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology to Astrobiology
Application Deadline: February 1, 2013 The American Philosophical Society and the NASA Astrobiology Institute have partnered to promote the continued exploration of the world around us through a program of research grants in support of astrobiological field studies undertaken by... -
Posted ROSES-12 Amendment 23: New opportunity via Appendix D.13: Kepler Participating Scientist Program to Astrobiology
The Kepler Participating Scientist Program (PSP) is designed to fund community investigations that advance the goals of the Kepler Mission during its extended phase. Participating Scientists may pursue data processing and analysis tasks, exoplanet candidate follow-up observations, completeness and reliability... -
Posted NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities for Ph.D. Scientists and Engineers to Astrobiology
Application Deadline: July 1, 2013 The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) provides opportunities for Ph.D. scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability to perform research on problems largely of their own choosing, yet compatible with the research interests of the... -
Posted Geobiology 2013: An International Training Course in a Rapidly Evolving Field to Astrobiology
Applications due: February 15, 2013 In this intense multidisciplinary summer course, June 9 - July 12, explore the coevolution of the Earth and its biosphere, with emphasis on how microbial processes affect the environment and leave imprints on the rock... -
Posted Astrobiology Program Early Career Collaboration Award to Astrobiology
The NASA Astrobiology Program Early Career Collaboration Award offers research-related travel support for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Applicants are encouraged to use these resources to circulate among two or more research teams, however any travel that is critical for... -
Posted NASA Year of the Solar System Undergraduate Planetary Science Research Conference to Astrobiology
Due to the popularity of last year's conference, the NASA Year of the Solar System (YSS) Undergraduate Planetary Science Research Conference is again being hosted in conjunction with the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) March 18-22, 2013 in The... -
Posted Astrobiology Daily News 11 January 2013 to Astrobiology
Habitability: Where to look for life? Halophilic habitats: Earth analogs to study Mars habitability. Planetary and Space Science Image: Lakes on Titan, NASA Life Possible on Extrasolar Moons, AIP Searching for the signatures of terrestrial planets in F-, G-type main-sequence... -
Posted Astrobiology Daily News 7 January 2013 to Astrobiology
Characterizing the Cool KOIs IV: Kepler-32 as a prototype for the formation of compact planetary systems throughout the Galaxy, astro-ph Characterization of potentially habitable planets: Retrieval of atmospheric and planetary properties from emission spectra, astro-ph Hot Moons and Cool... -
Posted NAI Supports Early Career Astrobiologists to Take "Grand Tour" to Astrobiology
The NAI has selected five early career astrobiologists to participate in an 11-day tour of astrobiology-relevant field sites in Western Australia. This Astrobiology Grand Tour is organized by the Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA) and will include visits to the... -
Posted First Internation al Workshop on Education in Astrobiology to Astrobiology
Hoeor, Sweden, 6 - 9 June 2013 The meeting aims to bring together scientists and teachers engaged in astrobiology education on universities and other training institutions to * discuss new teaching and assesment forms in astrobiology * foster international cooperation...