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Education Resources

This list of resources may not be complete. If you would like to add an educational resource please email Miki Huynh

Undergraduate Program Resources

Florida Institute of Technology
– Space Sciences Astrobiology

Pennsylvania State University
– Astrobiology Minor Program

Princeton University
– Certificate Program in Planets and Life

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
– Astrobiology Minor

University of Arizona
– Undergraduate Minor in Astrobiology

Graduate Program Resources

Georgia Tech
– Georgia Tech Astrobiology Graduate Certificate Program

Arizona State University
– Astrobiology Focus

Pennsylvania State University
– Graduate Studies in Astrobiology
https://bulletins.psu.edu/graduate/programs/majors/astrobiology/
http://psarc.weebly.com/

University of Arizona
– Graduate Minor in Astrobiology

University of Colorado
– Graduate Certificate in Astrobiology

University of Washington
– Astrobiology Dual-Title PhD and Graduate Certificate

Courses and MOOC’s (Past and Present)

Arizona State University
- Habworlds Beyond MOOC

Cheyney University of PA
– Undergraduate Course

Coursera/University of Edinburgh
– Astrobiology Course

Harvard University
- Super-Earths and Life MOOC

International Astronomical Union
- Online Courses in Astrobiology

Northern Arizona University
– Cultural Simulation: The Mars Mission

Princeton University
– Life in the Universe Courses

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
– Origins of Life Course

San Jose State University
– Astrobiology Courses

San Jose State University
– Science Education MS Program

Smith College
– Astrobiology Special Topic Courses in the Astronomy Dept

Stanford University
– Astrobiology Course
– Planetary Habitablility, includes an online textbook

Study Astronomy website
– Certificate in Astrobiology Course

University of Arizona
– Planetary Astrobiology

University of California at Los Angeles
– Astrobiology Course

University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign
- Emergence of Life MOOC

University of Maryland
– Center for Planetary Origins

University of North Dakota
– Astrobiology Courses

University of Washington
– Astrobiology Courses

Wesleyan University
– Planetary Sciences Department

Other Educational Resources

Astrobiology at UC Berkeley
– Solar System Exploration
Institute for Planets and Life

International Space University

Johns Hopkins University
– Collaboration of JHU and STSI
– Astrobiology Forum

Lunar and Planetary Institute
– Educator resources Spaceward Bound

NAI EPO Products & Resources
– Education and Public Outreach at NAI

NASA Space Calendar

Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology for Educators

SETI Institute’s Education Programs

TERC Astrobiology Curriculum

UCLA IGPP Center for Astrobiology

University of Wisconsin at Madison
– Astrobiology Research Consortium

Videos, Podcasts and Lectures

Big Picture Science (via SETI)
– Talks pertaining to astrobiology

Dr. David Grinspoon
– Astrobiology of Titan

ESA Astrobiology Lecture Course Series (2012-2013)
– Click here for videos

NAI seminars
– Featured Seminar Channels

NASA Astrobiology YouTube Channel
– Featured Videos

SETI series
– Weekly colloquium at SETI

Stanford University’s YouTube Channel (Astrobiology search)
– Various videos

TED talks:
- John Delano “Is anybody else out there?”
- Peter Ward on Mass Exctinctions

The Eyes of Nye
– Astrobiology

Astrobiology Journals

Astrobiology
– http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/astrobiology/99/

Astrobiology Magazine
– http://www.astrobio.net/

Astrobiology.com
– http://www.astrobiology.com/

The Astrobiology Network
– http://www.astrobiology.net/

The International Journal of Astrobiology
– http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=IJA

New Scientist Astrobiology
– http://www.newscientist.com/topic/astrobiology

Where in the World is Astrobiology?
These organizational websites provide information on astrobiology activities around the world.

Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB)
– http://www.astrobiologysociety.org/
Terence Kee, t.p.kee@leeds.ac.uk

Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA)
– http://aca.unsw.edu.au/
Martin Van Kranendonk, martin.vankranendonk@unsw.edu.au
Chris Tinney, c.tinney@unsw.edu.au

Austria (ExoLife)
– http://www.univie.ac.at/EPH/exolife/
Regina Hitzenberger, regina.hitzenberger@univie.ac.at
Maria G. Firneis, firneis@astro.univie.ac.at

Bioastronomy — IAU Commission 51
– http://www.iau-c51.org/about
Pascale Ehrenfreund, info@iau-c51.org

Sao Paulo Advanced School of Astrobiology (Brazil)
– https://bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/98960/astrobio-no-lab-a-new-experimentational-and-interdisciplinar-tool-to-science-teaching/
Jorge Ernesto Horvath, foton@astro.iag.usp.br
Douglas Galante, douglas.galante@lnls.br

Canadian Astrobiology Network
– https://www.uwo.ca/projects/cpsx/research/collaboration/government/astrobiology_network.html
Neil Banerjee, neil.banerjee@uwo.ca
Lyle Whyte, lyle.whyte@mcgill.ca

Canadian Astrobiology Training Program
– http://create-astrobiology.mcgill.ca/
Lyle Whyte, lyle.whyte@mcgill.ca

Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)
– http://cab.inta.es/
Javier Gómez-Elvira Rodríguez, gomezej@cab.inta-csic.es

DLR Institute of Planetary Research – Helmholtz Alliance ‘Planetary Evolution and Life’ – http://www.dlr.de/hgf_alliance_pel
Tilman Spohn, tilman.spohn@dlr.de

European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA)
– http://www.eana-net.eu/
eana-web@eana-net.eu

Finnish Astrobiology Network (FAN)
– http://fan.utu.fi/fan_en.shtml

The Greek Portal
– http://www.astrobiology.gr/

Indian Astrobiology Research Centre (IARC)
– http://www.iarc.res.in/index.html
education.iarc@gmail.com

Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE) Argentina
– http://www.iafe.uba.ar/

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Science (Portugal)
– http://www.iastro.pt/

Instituto de Astrobiología (Colombia)
– http://www.astrobiologia.org/
Jorge Bueno, jorge.bueno@astrobiologia.org

International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
– http://issol.org/
Dave Deamer, deamer@soe.ucsc.edu

Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life (ILASOL)
– http://www.iyar.org.il/ILASOL.html
Tsviya Olender and Omer Markovitch, ilasolw@weizmann.ac.il

Italian Astrobiology Society
– https://astrobiologia.weebly.com/
John Robert Brucato, jbrucato@arcetri.astro.it

Japan Astrobiology Network (JAN)
- http://logos.ls.toyaku.ac.jp/~astrobiology-japan/en/

Earth & Life Science Institute – Tokyo Tech (ELSI)
- http://www.elsi.jp/en/

Japanese Society of Extremophiles (JSE)
- http://www.extremophiles.jp/

Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space (JSBSS)
- http://www.jsbss.jp/about/?l=2

The Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life Japan (SSOEL-Japan)
- http://www.origin-life.gr.jp/defaultEN.html

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
- http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/

Laboratory for Astrobiology & Astromaterial (within JAXA)
- http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/labam/jabn6

Mexican Society of Astrobiology (SOMA)
– http://www.nucleares.unam.mx/soma/
Antígona Segura, antigona@nucleares.unam.mx
Sandra Ramírez, ramirez_sandra@uaem.mx

NASA Astrobiology Program
– http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

New Zealand Astrobiology Initiative
– http://astrobiology.kiwi/

Nordic Network of Astrobiology
– http://www.nordicastrobiology.net
Wolf Geppert, wgeppert@hotmail.com

Peruvian Association of Astrobiology (ASPAST)
– http://www.astrobiologia.pe

Société Française d’Exobiologie (SFE)
– http://www.exobiologie.fr/
Muriel Gargaud, Muriel.Gargaud@obs.u-bordeaux1.fr

Swedish Astrobiology Network
– https://sites.google.com/site/swanastrobiologi/learn-more
Wolf Geppert, wgeppert@hotmail.com

UK Centre for Astrobiology
- http://www.astrobiology.ac.uk
Charles Cockell, contact@astrobiology.ac.uk