Jonathan Fortney Garners Simons Investigator in Astrophysics Award
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/06/fortney-simons-investigator.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
UC Santa Cruz Leads Interdisciplinary Consortium for Astrobiology Research
With funding from NASA, the UCSC-led team will lay the foundation for detecting the signatures of life in the atmospheres of other planets
Astrobiology Initiative Team Members Honored with Awards and Distinctions
Several of our esteemed Astrobiology Initiative team members received awards and distinctions recently. Honors included: