"How do we know that life arose from nonliving material? Is there experimental data to confirm this?"
Welcome to the NAI Newsletter! The Newsletter is a compendium of announcements, events, updates, and news items related to the NAI and its research. If you have news items or suggestions you can send them to the editor, Marco Boldt at: Marco.Boldt@nasa.gov.
Newsletter for November 4, 2009
NAI News
- 11/30 NAI Director's Seminar: Andrew Pohorille, "Is Water Necessary for Life?"
- UH Team Member Tobias Owen Receives 2009 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in Planetary Sciences
- 11/10 University of Washington Astrobiology Seminar: Kevin Hand, "Joule Heating of the South Polar Terrain on Enceladus"
Recently Published Research from the NAI
- Oxygen Production in Earth's Early Oceans Predates the Great Oxidation Event
- 'Ultra-Primitive' Particles Found in Comet Dust
- Ribosomes as Ancient Molecular Fossils
For Students and Young Investigators
- Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2010
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program
- Two Post-doc Positions in Astrobiology Available at JPL, Caltech
Education and Public Outreach
- Teachers from Around the World Examine Life in Extreme Environments
- Astrobiology Teachers Academy
- Ice in the Solar System...in Your Classroom
For the Astrobiology Community
