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Monthly Archives: June 2011
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Today’s countdown goes for, 3. AbGradCon 2011. For those of you who missed the opportunity to attend this conference or watch the talks live via Adobe Connect, the recorded talks of the conference are now available online! Hurray! Click here to watch the recorded talks from Sunday June 5th. 2. A detailed summary of the talks will be available here soon, but for now, I highly recommend the talks by Aaron Goldman (Princeton) and Paul Black (Rochester) if you are.... |
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I just got back from one of the most innovative science conferences targeting early career scientists, also known as, Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference (AbGradCon). As Shawn mentioned earlier AbGradCon is a “closed ecosystem” formed by the future of astrobiology. And heck yes, the future of astrobiology is more than awesome! I can’t wait to see what these bright and ambitious guys will achieve in the future. As one of the statements from the conference goes: “One of us in this.... |
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Sorry for missing yesterday. I had a good excuse. Honestly: 3… You see, I was at AbGradCon, the Astrobiology Graduate Conference. It’s a place where graduate students and early-career postdocs in astrobiology can get together inside a “closed ecosystem” that is free from the stresses imposed by the presence of established scientists. It’s a big part of the astrobiology community, and to be totally honest one of the major reasons I’m still in the field. I have many colleagues I.... |
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This week’s mission of the week is NASA’s Spirit rover. I was going to wax poetic about this rover… but when I saw this video I thought it more appropriate to let the scientists and engineers that made her and worked with her over the last decade speak for her, instead. I will say this: the Mars Exploration Rovers are a testament to an absolutely wonderful team. They deserve all the accolades they receive. Congratulations to all involved… and onward.... |
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As promised, more from the pages of Nature tonight. 3… For decades, scientists have attempted to solve the “faint young sun paradox” by proposing higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide and methane. But a paper last April claimed this wasn’t the case, and that carbon dioxide concentrations were no higher than modern-day values. The authors (Rosing, Bird, Sleep, and Bjerrum) solved the paradox with a cloud-free, ocean-covered Earth that was darker and absorbed more radiation. Well, today Nature.... |
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Astrobiology Magazine Top Story |
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