Jonathan Fortney Garners Simons Investigator in Astrophysics Award
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/06/fortney-simons-investigator.html
Natalie Batalha Appointed UCSC Presidential Chair
Natalie Batalha is appointed the UCSC Presidential Chair
Baked Meteorites Yield Clues to Planetary Atmospheres
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/04/meteorite-outgassing.html
Study Warns of ‘Oxygen false positives’ in Search for Signs of Life on Other Planets
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable ‘biosignature,’ but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life, scientists say
UCSC Astrobiology Initiative Brings Science, Humanities, and Art Together to Study the Ethics of Space Sciences
UC Santa Cruz’s Astrobiology Initiative is an interdisciplinary research collaborative dedicated to the study of the origin, evolution, and prevalence of life in the universe. By probing how life forms, identifying the markers life produces, and observing our local astronomical neighborhood, astrobiology brings a 21st-century approach to the puzzle of life: what processes give rise […]