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Category: Media

How to Weigh an Exoplanet: Ask the Astronomers Live!

February 19, 2021 Daniel Larsen

UWAB faculty member Eric Agol and Program Director Victoria Meadows were recently interviewed by Phil LaMarr with the Universe Unplugged:…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Media, Research, Task C, Task E Filed under: Eric Agol, Exoplanets, Interview, Observations, TRAPPIST-1, Universe Unplugged, Victoria Meadows

VPL Team Members part of Alternative Earths Team at UCR Awarded $4.6M for NASA ICAR Grant

January 7, 2021 Daniel Larsen

The UCR-based Alternative Earth’s Team has received a five-year funding award from the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Astrobiology Research (ICAR). VPL…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Media, Research, Task B, Task D Filed under: Edward Schwieterman, Niki Parenteau, Tim Lyons, Victoria Meadows

If a Planet Has a Lot of Methane in its Atmosphere, Life is the Most Likely Cause

December 28, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL graduate student Nick Wogan (University of Washington), researcher and former student Dr. Josh Krissansen-Totton (University of California, Santa Cruz)…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task D Filed under: David Catling, Josh Krissansen-Totton, Nick Wogan

Dr. Ravi Kopparapu Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

September 30, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL Scientist Dr. Ravi Kopparapu (NASA GSFC) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Ravi Kopparapu is…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Media, Task C, Task E Filed under: Ask an Astrobiologist, Interview, NASA Astrobiology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ravi Kopparapu, SAGANet

Giada Arney Highlighted by NASA for Women’s Equality Day

September 1, 2020 Daniel Larsen

Giada Arney works at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and as part of the VPL team is the Project Deputy…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task A, Task B, Task E Filed under: Giada Arney, Interview, Twitter

Planetary Astrobiology, Edited by Vikki Meadows & Giada Arney, Now Available!

August 22, 2020 Daniel Larsen

Are we alone in the universe? How did life arise on our planet? How do we search for life beyond…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task A, Task B, Task C, Task D, Task E Filed under: Giada Arney, Planetary Astrobiology, Twitter, University of Arizona Press, Victoria Meadows

Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

August 12, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL Scientist Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra (BMSIS) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! You can watch a recording…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Media, Task C Filed under: Ask an Astrobiologist, BMSIS, Interview, Jacob Haqq-Misra, NASA Astrobiology, SAGANet

Dr. Eddie Schwieterman Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

June 16, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL scientist Dr. Eddie Schwieterman (UCR) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! You can watch a recording…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Media, Task B Filed under: Ask an Astrobiologist, Interview, NASA Astrobiology, SAGANet, UCR

Ocean Circulation May Hold the Key to Finding Life on Exoplanets

May 18, 2020 Daniel Larsen

Dorian Abbot and postdoctoral fellow Stephanie Olson’s recent publication “Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection” has been receiving some press…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Research, Task C Filed under: Dorian Abbot, Exoplanets, Life Detection, Ocean World, Stephanie Olson

Dr. Colin Goldblatt Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

April 1, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL Scientist Dr. Colin Goldblatt (University of Victoria) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Colin Goldblatt,…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Media Filed under: Ask an Astrobiologist, Colin Goldblatt, Interview, NASA Astrobiology, SAGANet, University of Victoria

Andrew Lincowski Earns Dual-Title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology from University of Washington!

February 27, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL graduate student at the University of Washington, Andrew Lincowski, successfully defended his dissertation on Thursday February 27th! Andrew was…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task A, Task C, Task E Filed under: Andrew Lincowski, Dual-Title PhD, Final Exam, Graduation, M Dwarf, TRAPPIST-1, University of Washington, Victoria Meadows

Earth’s Cousins: Upcoming Missions to Look for ‘Biosignatures’ in the Atmospheres of Nearby Worlds

February 20, 2020 Daniel Larsen

Primary Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Lab research group, Professor Victoria Meadows, gave an invited presentation this past weekend at…

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Posted in: Events, Featured, Media Filed under: AAAS, UW News, Victoria Meadows

Tiny, Ancient Meteorites Suggest Early Earth’s Atmosphere was Rich in Carbon Dioxide

January 27, 2020 Daniel Larsen

University of Washington graduate student and VPL collaborator Owen Lehmer, was the lead author of a new paper recently published…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task B Filed under: David Catling, Early Earth, Owen Lehmer, Publication, Roger Buick, Science Advances, UW News, UWAB

New Research Finds Life Could Have Emerged from Lakes with High Phosphorus

January 7, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL co-investigator David Catling (UW) and collaborator Jonathan Toner (UW) recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task D Filed under: David Catling, Jonathon Toner, Origin of Life, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Publication, UW News

Farewell to the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

December 30, 2019 naivpl

The NASA Astrobiology Program has announced a bold new structure to mobilize the astrobiology community towards both impacting future NASA…

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VPL Papers cited as High Impact Articles for Astrobiology’s December 2019 Issue

December 11, 2019 naivpl

The December edition of the journal Astrobiology is focused largely on Hot Springs and features two papers from VPL team…

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Climates of Distant Terrestrial Worlds

November 27, 2019 Daniel Larsen

VPL scientist Aomawa Shields’ recent paper on the Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets was featured in a AAS Nova…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Research, Task C Filed under: Aomawa Shields, Climate Models, M-Dwarf

James Webb Space Telescope Could Begin Learning About TRAPPIST-1 Atmospheres in a Single Year, Study Indicates

August 15, 2019 Daniel Larsen

New research from VPL Team members Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Andrew Lincowski, and their faculty advisor Dr. Victoria Meadows, recently published in…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task C, Task E

VPL Team Members Publish Clue to Origins of Life

August 12, 2019 naivpl Leave a comment

In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Virtual Planetary Lab (VPL) team…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Research, Task D

Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

July 17, 2019 Daniel Larsen

VPL Scientist Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz (Adler Planetarium) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz is…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task C Filed under: Addler Planetarium, Ask an Astrobiologist, Interview, Lucianne Walkowicz, NASA Astrobiology, SAGANet

VPL Continues to Search for Life in the Great Beyond with the support of a NASA NExSS Grant 

November 14, 2018 Daniel Larsen

The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington covered a story on Searching for Life in the Great…

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Posted in: Featured, Media Filed under: Interview, Victoria Meadows

Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

March 21, 2018 Daniel Larsen

VPL Scientist Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman (NASA GSFC) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Domagal-Goldman is a…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task B, Task C, Task D Filed under: Ask an Astrobiologist, Interview, NASA Astrobiology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, SAGANet

Watery Worlds: UW Astronomer Eric Agol Assists in New Findings of TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System

February 5, 2018 Daniel Larsen

Recent work by Virtual Planetary Laboratory researcher, Eric Agol (University of Washington), has been highlighted in a UW News Article…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task E Filed under: Eric Agol

Dr. Sean Raymond Featured on Ask and Astrobiologist

January 26, 2018 Daniel Larsen

VPL Scientist Dr. Sean Raymond (Université de Bordeaux) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Raymond’s research…

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Posted in: Featured, Media, Task C Filed under: Ask an Astrobiologist, Interview, NASA Astrobiology, SAGANet, Sean Raymond, Université de Bordeaux

Weathering of rocks a poor regulator of global temperatures 

May 22, 2017 Daniel Larsen

VPL researchers Josh Krissansen-Totton and David Catling have published an article in the journal Nature titled “Constraining climate sensitivity and…

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