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Past Schedule (05/06) |
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Every
Friday 1-2pm at Rm N505A, Steward Observatory |
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Aug 11 |
2nd Summer Student Catherine Neish Matthew Pasek |
Seminar Part II Prebiotic chemistry in the possible cryovolcanic dome Ganesa Macula on Titan. Flux Calculations of Extra-terrestrial Prebiotic Material. |
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| Aug
25 |
Curtis Cooper |
Planetary
Habitability  |
[Kasting
& Catling: Evolution of a Habitable Planet, ARAA 2003] |
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| Sep
1 [Lunch] |
Jonathan Lunine | Land o' lakes and
the source of Titan's methane 
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Sep 8 |
Nick Siegler | Evidence for life 3.8 Ga ago |
[Mojzsis
et al 1996 Nature 384, 55]
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| Sep 15 |
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A habitable planet around 55 Cnc? |
[Raymond et al. 2006 ApJ 644, 1223]
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Sep 22
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Ilaria Pascucci | Radioactive 26Al
from massive stars in the Galaxy |
[Diehl et al. 2006 Nature, 439,
45]
Supplementaty Material |
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| Sep 29 [Lunch] |
Joaquin
Ruiz |
The Gold Deposits of South
Africa: What They Mean for Astrobiology
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| Oct 6 |
Dániel Apai |
The Snowball Earth Hypothesis (Review) |
[Hoffman
& Schrag 2002 Terra Nova 14, 129] [WikiPedia] [Hoffman & Schrag 2000 Sci. Am.] |
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| Oct 13 Special Location! |
Matt Pasek |
Two Views on the Origin of Life Location: BSW 302 |
[Anet 2004 Current Op.
Chem. Bio. 8. 654] [Shapiro 2006 Quart. Review Bio. 81, 105] |
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| Oct 20 |
David Minton |
The Origin and Consequences of
Steep-Sided Crater Lakes on Titan Mitchell et al. 2006 DPS Talk |
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| Oct 27 [Lunch] |
Raina Maier Bacterial Community Structure of Soils
of a Hyper-Arid Region of the Atacama Desert, Chile |
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| Nov 3 |
Erika Offerdahl |
A Dry Limit to Microbial Life? |
Mars-Like Soils in the
Atacama
[Navarro-Gonzalez et al. 2003 Science 302, 1018] |
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| Nov 10 Special Location! |
Corinne Davies |
A Lunar Spin on the Evolution Story Location: BSW 302 |
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| Nov 17 [Lunch] |
Adam Showman |
Oceans in the Outer Solar System |
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| Dec 1 |
DeWayne Halfen |
The Prebiotic Importance of Formamide
in the Synthesis of Nucleic Acids |
[Saladino et al. Curr. Org. Chem
2004, 8, 1425] [Senanayake & Idriss 2006 PNAS 103, 1194] |
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| Dec 8 |
Emily Tenenbaum |
Organic
Globules in the Tagish Lake Meteorite |
[Nakamura-Messenger
et al. 2006 Science 314, 1439] |
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| Dec 15 [Lunch] Special Location! |
Alex Pavlov |
Bistability of atmospheric
oxygen and
the Great Oxigenation
[Goldblatt
et al. 2006 Nature Vol. 443] Location: NOAO (950 N. Cherry Ave)
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