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Newsletter for January 5, 2012
News
- 1/30 NAI Director’s Seminar: Paul Davies, “Cancer as Metazoa 1.0”
- In Memoriam: Lynn Margulis, 1938-2011
- 2011 NAI Director's Discretionary Fund Selections
- NASA Astrobiology Program Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS)
Recently Published Research
- Oxygen's Stops and Starts
- Early Life More Complex than Previously Thought
- Earth's Early Atmosphere: An Update
- Fossil Record, Meet Molecular Clock
For Students and Young Investigators
- Sign up for FameLab Astrobiology—Houston!
- Postdoctoral Positions for the Deep Life Initiative of the Deep Carbon Observatory
- Ph.D. Opportunities in Molecular Geomicrobiology of the Deep Biosphere
- Nordic-NASA Summer School "Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe"
- Canadian Astrobiology Training Program MSc, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow Positions Available
- 2012 Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Astrobiology and Planetary Science
- The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
- Research Associate and Postdoctoral Positions Available at the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
Education and Public Outreach
For the Astrobiology Community
- Call for Nominations to the Executive Committee of the Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG)
- Ocean Deoxygenation, Past, Present, and Future
- 2nd International Workshop on “Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation”
- TEDxAlbany-John Delano-Is Anyone else out There?
- Introducing the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
- Call for Applications: New NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology
- Conference on Life Detection in Extraterrestrial Samples
- Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets
- Workshop: Transiting Planets in the House of the Sun
- 39th COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Scientific Assembly

