Each Undergraduate Research Associate in Astrobiology conducts intensive state-of-the-art research with an individual scientist-mentor. Please join us as the fruits of these efforts are presented by the Class of 2015 to NASA’s Astrobiology Institute in a distributed seminar presented over the Internet.
Presenters:
Beatriz Saldana (Florida Institute of Technology) – “Australian Acid Playa Lake as Mars Analog“
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Stern
Maureen Palmer (St. Olaf College) – “Detection of Nitriles on Titan Using ALMA”
Mentor: Dr. Martin Cordiner
Patrick Tamburo (University of Maryland) – “Identifying Atmospheric Temperature Inversions in Hot Jupiters Using Wide Field Camera 3 on HST“
Mentor: Dr. Avi Mandell
Tiffany Jansen (University of Washington) – “Adding Exomoons to the Haystacks Project: Realistic Simulations of Exoplanet Observations in the Presence of Exozodiacal Dust“
Mentor: Dr. Aki Roberge