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Fridays at 1pm Room
N505A at Steward Observatory To subscribe to our email-list write to: cathi@as.arizona.edu |
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The
LAPLACE Astrobiology
Journal Club has been initiated by Profs. M. Meyer
and N. Woolf in 2004 to provide a forum for the discussion of
astrobiology-related research and review articles. The journal club
quickly became popular and currently about 10 - 20 people, from
undergraduate students through postdocs to regents professors, visit
regularly our weekly meetings. Most of the meetings are hosted by
the Steward Observatory, but the journal club plans meetings at other
departmens, too. The club is currently organized by Prof. N. Woolf and
Dr. D. Apai.
Astrobiology Lunches: On the last Friday (12-1pm) of every month we have a very informal lunch together discussing astrobiology-related topics; the lunches are sponsored by LAPLACE.
Credit: On the condition of regular attendance and at least one presentation a credit can be requested.
Astrobiology Lunches: On the last Friday (12-1pm) of every month we have a very informal lunch together discussing astrobiology-related topics; the lunches are sponsored by LAPLACE.
Credit: On the condition of regular attendance and at least one presentation a credit can be requested.
If you are interested in astrobiology do
not hesitate to join us our discussions!
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Plans for March:
Geologic field trips (fossil "hunt" and local geology) Let me know if you have other field trip ideas! Other
on-going lecture series of interest:
"Evolution Lecture Series" and "Astrobiology and the Sacred" |
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Jan
13 |
Wilson
Liu:
Terrestrial Planet Habitability Wilson's PPT Slides |
[Gaidos
et al., Astrobiology, 5, 100, 2005: A
Review of Terrestrial Planet Habitability] |
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| Jan
20 |
Erika
Offerdahl: Spore survival in simulated Mars atmosphere |
Bacillus
subtilis Spore Survival... [Nicholson & Schuerger 2005 AsBio 5/4, 536] |
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Jan 27 +Lunch 12-1pm |
Matt
Pasek: Visit
to the Southwest Meteorite Lab Phoenix Mission Bldg. |
Organic
compounds in carbonaceous
meteorites [Sephton 2002 Nat Prod Rep. 19, 292] |
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| Feb 3 |
Guy
Consolmagno (Guest
Speaker, Vatican Observatory)
What Every Astrobiologist Should Know about Meteorites |
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Feb 10
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Charles Peterson: Biosgnatures from Terrestrial Planets around M Dwarfs | Biosgnatures from Terrestrial Planets
around M Dwarfs [Segura et al. 2005 AsBio 5/6, 706] |
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| Feb 17 |
Dave Minton: Where did the Moon Come From? Powerpoint Slides |
Where did the Moon come from? [Belbruno & Gott 2005 AJ 129, 1724] |
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| Feb 24 +Lunch 12-1pm |
Scott Kenyon: Terrestrial Planet Formation | Discussion |
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| Mar 3 |
Neville
Woolf: Impacts of the NASA Astrobiology budget cuts - What can we do? [Powerpoint Summary] |
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| Mar 10 |
Catherine Neish: In-situ detection of astrobiologically interesting areas on Titan | Fluorescence spectra of Titan tholins:
in-situ detection of astrobiologically interesting areas on Titans
surface [Hodyss et al. 2004, Icarus 171, 525] |
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| Mar 24 |
Laura Reed: Evolutionary innovations | Historical contingency and the
purported uniqueness of evolutionary innovations [Vermeij 2006 PNAS 103, 1804] |
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Mar 31
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Robert Strom: Global Warming - the causes and the implications QuickTime Video (53MB) PPT Slides (23 MB) |
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Apr 7
+Lunch 12-1pm |
Discussion with Anatoli K. Pavlov,
Director of Russian Astrobiology Center |
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| Apr 14 |
Jeremiah Murphy: Cassini at Enceladus |
[Special Issue of Science] |
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| Apr 21 |
Curtis Cooper: The
transmission spectrum of Earth-size transiting planets |
The transmission spectrum of Earth-size
transiting planets [Ehrenreich et al. 2006 A&A 448, 379] |
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| Apr 28 +Lunch 12-1pm |
Roger
Angel:
A sunshield at L1 to mitigate global warming. Can we afford to build one one? Can we afford not to build one? (Discussion) |
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| May 5 |
Ilaria
Pascucci: A Supernova at the Birth of the Solar System? |
60Fe: A Heat Source for Planetary
Differentiation from a Nearby Supernova Explosion [Mostefaoui, Lugmair, Hoppe 2005 ApJ 625, 271] 60Fe in Chondrites: Debris from a Nearby Supernova in the Early Solar System? [Tachibana et al. 2006 ApJL 639, 87] |
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| May 12 |
Steph
Cortes: Continental Crust
Formation at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga - Evidence
from Zircons QuickTime Video (53MB) PPT Slides (23 MB) |
A Tale of Early Earth Told in Zircons [Amelin 2005 Science 310, 1914] Evidence of Continental Crust at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga [Harrison et al. 2005 Science 310, 1947] |
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| May 19 +Lunch 12-1pm |
Discussion with Juan Pérez
Mercader Director of the Center for Astrobiology, Spain |
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| May 26
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Doug
Archer:
The Origin and Importance of Homochirality |
e.g. Circular Polarization in Star-
Formation Regions [Bailey et al. 1998 Science 281, 672] |
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June 2
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Dave Minton: A Miocene dust shower from an asteroid |
A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt [Farley et al. 2006 Nature 439, 295] |
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| June 9
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Nick Woolf: Pre-solar organic matter discovered in meteorites | Interstellar
Chemistry Recorded in Organic Matter from Primitive Meteorites [Busemann et al. 2006 Science 312, 727] |
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| June 16 |
Catherine
Neish: Cryovolcanism in
the Solar System |
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| June 23
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Dániel Apai | Iron meteorites as remnants of
planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region [Bottke et al. 2006 Nature 439, 821] |
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| June 30 +Lunch 12-1pm
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Dante Lauretta: How Much Material Did
Comets Contribute to the Terrestrial Oceans? New Views on the D/H Story |
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Summer Break: From July 1st till mid-August |
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