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Category: Research

American Geophysical Union Honors VPL Researchers

November 21, 2023 Miles Currie

Each year, AGU recognizes individuals and teams for their accomplishments in research, education, science communication and outreach. Honorees and their…

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Posted in: Awards, Featured, Research Filed under: David Crisp, Victoria Meadows

Work of VPL PI Prof. Victoria Meadows Featured in AAS Nova

Miles Currie

The work of VPL PI Prof. Victoria Meadows was recently featured in AAS Nova. Her work, along with VPL researchers…

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Posted in: Featured, Research Filed under: Andrew Lincowski, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Victoria Meadows

Work of VPL Researcher Miles Currie Featured in AAS Nova

Miles Currie

The work of VPL Researcher Miles Currie has been featured in two AAS Nova articles: Is There More To Life…

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Posted in: Featured, Research Filed under: Miles Currie

VPL Researchers Featured in Aeon Article: Uncertain contact

Miles Currie

VPL researchers Eddie Schwieterman and Heather Graham have been featured in an Aeon article on combating the uncertainty associated with…

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Posted in: Featured, Research Filed under: Edward Schwieterman, Victoria Meadows

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

Astronomers Document the Rise and Fall of a Rarely Observed Stellar Dance

January 19, 2021 Daniel Larsen

VPL Team member, and recent graduate from the University of Washington Astrobiology Program, Diana Windemuth (PhD Astronomy & Astrobiology, 2020),…

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Posted in: Conferences, Featured, Research, Task E Filed under: AAS, Binary Stars, Diana Windemuth, James Davenport, UW News

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

Keller Lab Publication takes the Cover of ChemBioChem!

October 29, 2020 Daniel Larsen

VPL Team members Roy Black, Sarah Keller and other collaborators in the Keller Lab in the Chemistry Department at the…

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Posted in: Featured, Research, Task B Filed under: Roy Black, Sarah Keller

Giada Arney Appointed as Member of the Panel on Venus for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey!

October 8, 2020 Daniel Larsen

Deputy PI and Task B Co-Lead, Giada Arney, and one of the VPL team’s resident Venus experts, was recently honored…

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Posted in: Featured, Research, Task A, Task B, Task E Filed under: Decadal Survey, Giada Arney, National Academies of Science, Panel on Venus, Planetary Science, Venus

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

Jacob Lustig-Yaeger Gives Invited Talk at AGU Fall Meeting 2019

December 20, 2019 Daniel Larsen

Graduate Student Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (University of Washington) presented an invited talk on “The Era of Terrestrial Exoplanet Characterization” at the…

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Posted in: Conferences, Events, Featured, Research, Task E Filed under: AAS, AGU, Conferences, Exoplanet Characterization, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, JWST

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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Posted in: Featured, Media, Research

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

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

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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Posted in: Featured, Media, Research, Task B

UW Astronomer Eric Agol Assists in New Seven-Planet NASA Discovery Using ‘Distracted Driving’ Technique

February 22, 2017 Daniel Larsen

https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/02/22/uw-astronomer-eric-agol-assists-in-new-seven-planet-nasa-discovery-using-distracted-driving-technique/

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

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