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| Postdoctoral Recruitment. New | |||||
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The University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute invites applications for up to 8 Postdoctoral Fellows with interests related to our inter-disciplinary research environment linking astronomical, microbiological, chemical, and geological sciences to investigate the origin, history, distribution and role of water as it relates to life in the Universe. |
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| Nordic Summer School: " Water Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe" New | |||||
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Iceland - 29 June to 13 July 2009
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| Upcoming Outreach WorkshopsNew | |||||
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HI Student/Teacher Astronomy Research National Program (June 12-18, 2009) HI STAR develops astronomy research skills and provides background for conducting original research projects. You would work with astronomer mentors on comets and asteroids, galaxies, stars and protostars, or extrasolar planet group projects, depending upon your interest. ALI'I National Summer Teacher Workshop (July 6-11, 2009) This workshop designed for secondary science teachers will emphasize professional development with the use of learning cycles for concept development, lectures and activities led by scientists and state-of-the-art lab tours. |
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| Origins of Water Workshop - Feb 27-Mar 1, 2008 | |||||
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The workshop will be held on the island of Molokai . The origin of water and organics on Earth and the terrestrial planets is one of the most fundamental unanswered questions about the early solar system. The location of the regions within the nascent solar system, which may have fed water-rich material to the Earth during accretion, is under intense debate. These issues are at the forefront of the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology, and we would like to bring together a group of key researchers in all of the primary areas of research related to understanding the origin of water on Earth. See detail |
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| Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life | |||||
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The conference was held on July 16 -20, 2007, San Juan Puerto Rico. This meeting will serve to bring together an international interdisciplinary group of researchers to share and discuss the latest findings related to origins of solar systems, space resources and exploration for life, topics highly relevant to the new NASA Exploration vision. As an outcome of this meeting we expect to produce a refereed Conference Volume, and through a teacher education program, forge new education collaborations. See detail |
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| UH scientists in science news. New | |||||
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Haghighipour and Jewitt suggest that early in the solar system, the asteroid belt was cooler, and they note that the sun didn’t produce quite as much heat when it was very young. More importantly, some of the sun’s radiation was absorbed by the much larger population of dusty debris floating around the belt during those formative years, which would have given icy objects a chance to form there. See detail Other News |
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