Astrobiology Lectures
April 02, 2013
Characterizing the Atmospheres of Low-Mass Low-Density Transiting Exoplanets
Jonathon Fortney
UC Santa Cruz
October 24, 2012
Abiotic Nitrogen on Earth Like Planets: Habitability and the Origin of Life
David Summers
SETI Institute
March 15, 2011
Planetary Science Decadal Survey Rollout Town Hall Meeting
Scott Hubbard (Stanford and SETI) and Dale Cruikshank (NASA Ames)
February 09, 2011
Biological and Physical Considerations of Unfrozen Water Films: Mars and Antarctic Dry Valleys
Aaron Zent
Planetary Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center
June 09, 2010
The Evolving Intersection of Physics and Biology
Jan Liphardt
UC Berkeley Physics Department
March 10, 2010
Astrobiology of Basaltic glass in the oceanic basins: a source for early life nutrients?
Brad Bailey
NASA Lunar Science Institute
January 20, 2010
The EvoGrid: Building an Origin of Life Simulator & Its Implications for Life, the Universe and Everything
Bruce Damer
DigitalSpace and Biota.org
October 28, 2009
The Inner Structure of a Floating Water Bridge
Elmar Fuchs
Wetsus - Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, The Netherlands
October 07, 2009
Detecting Organics using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Nathan Bramall, NASA Ames Space Science Division
September 09, 2009
Pavilion Lake - Diving Deep to get us to the Moon and Mars
Darlene Lim
SETI Institute and NASA Ames Space Science Division
February 11, 2009
Developing a Roadmap of Astrobiology Societal Issues
Margaret Race, Rocco Mancinelli and Workshop Participants
December 10, 2008
Nuclear Weapons and Space Weapons
Special Panel: Pete Worden, Pavel Podvig and Will Marshall
October 01, 2008
What's hot in Saturn's Rings?
Dr. Jeff Cuzzi (NASA Ames), Dr. Mark Showalter (SETI Institute) and Dr. Stuart Pilorz (JPL/SETI Institute)
September 17, 2008
Direct detection of extrasolar planets and the Gemini Planet Imager
Dr. Bruce Macintosh
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
August 20, 2008
The Advanced Studies Laboratory - A unique linkage between UCSC and NASA Ames
Dr. Rosalind Grymes
UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames Advanced Studies Laboratory
August 06, 2008
Life in a cold and dry planet - Lessons for the Phoenix Mission
Alfonso F. Davila
NASA Ames Space Sciences Postdoctoral Researcher
June 11, 2008
The Role of Cortical Noise in Brain Function
Prof. Donald A. Glaser, UC Berkeley (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1960 for the invention of the "bubble chamber")
UC Berkeley
May 21, 2008
Jets and Outflows from Young Stars: How They Help Shape the Early Solar System
Sienny Shang
May 14, 2008
Probing the Meteorology of our Protoplanetary Disk with Cometary Mineralogy
Diane Wooden
April 30, 2008
Following Carbon's Evolutionary Path from Nucleosynthesis to the the Solar System
Stefanie Milam
April 23, 2008
Anoxygenic photosynthesis, evolution, and the origin of continents and cyanobacteria
Norm Sleep
December 05, 2007
Extremophiles: What it takes for life to survive beyond the home planet
Rocco Mancinelli
SETI Institute
