ASTROBIOLOGY EARLY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES |
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Please check out the list of events and opportunities happening this October that are relevant to early career astrobiologists. We encourage you to share these events with your early career students, colleagues, and collaborators! For more information regarding event specifics, please check the event's homepage or contact the event host. |
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Origins Seminar Series with Akash Gupta (UCLA) |
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Monday, October 17th | 2PM EST/ 12PM MST
The Origins Seminar series is organized by Serena Kim (SO), Sebastiaan Haffert (SO), and Chenliang Huang (LPL) from Steward Observatory (SO)/Dept. of Astronomy and Dept. of Planetary Sciences (LPL) at the University of Arizona. The Origins Seminar series is partly supported by the Earths in Other Solar Systems NExSS team. To receive weekly updates and advertisements for talks, subscribe to the mailing list. The Zoom information is sent via email, and the Origins seminar talks are recorded. Videos, including past seminars can be viewed from the Origins youtube channel.
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Ask an Astrobiologist, Episode 53 featuring Dr. Mike Wong |
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Tuesday, October 18th | 1PM EST
The next episode of Ask an Astrobiologist will feature Dr. Mike Wong and a conversation about Star Trek, alien life, exoplanets, and more.
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The NfoLD ECC Journal Club with C Marshall |
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Tuesday, October 18th | 4PM ET
Bring your questions, coffee, blanket, and join us from wherever you are! We will be meeting with Dr. C Marshall (they/them) to learn more about their research and expertise in astrobiology. Dr. Marshall co-authored the paper we will be reading (attached to this email), Imaging of Vanadium in Microfossils: A New Potential Biosignature. Please read the paper ahead of time and come ready to discuss!
(Hosted by Schuyler Borges, Sehwheat Manna and Joey Pasterski)
Meeting ID: 885 5423 4069 Password: cmarshall
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STROMATOLITE Syndicate Weekly Socials |
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RECURRING: Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30pm EST (GMT-4)
Come hang out with other early career folks in astrobiology all over the world every week for a chill and laid back hour of fun. The hour is totally flexible depending on those in attendance (accessible virtual games welcome). Bring a snack and/or a drink of choice and take a break to connect with others in your field. These social times will rotate every month, so be on the lookout for new meeting times on the next ECA Newsletter or get in contact with us to join our Slack!
More information: The STROMATOLITE (Studying Totally Rad Objects in Modern and Ancient Thermal, Oceanic, Lithified, and Interlayered Textures on Earth/Exoplanets) Syndicate is an international collaborative early career research group in astrobiology. Our values are accessibility, collaboration, and connection. We exist as an international support network for those in astrobiology, especially for those in resource-limited workplaces. We are a collective of individuals who all contribute to the operations of the group.
Meeting ID: 868 9956 0065 Password: social
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NASA Community Town Hall on the Science Career Path Tool |
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Thursday, October 20th | 1PM ET
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall on the NASA Science Career Path Tool. This town hall will be focused on the Science Career Path Tool, an interactive online tool that features five distinct science career tracks and summarizes the common roles across the NASA science workforce. The tool can assist scientists, managers, students, and prospective employees to NASA in their awareness of career opportunities, help plan and navigate careers, and determine training and development needs to better prepare them for different roles.
WebEx Event number: 2761 007 6695 Event Password: mMp4TAhP2?4
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The Astrobiology NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) |
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Deadline: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) provides 2 year fellowships to conduct research in a NASA Astrobiology Program-funded laboratory. For more information and application materials see the link below and select Astrobiology Program under Centers.
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Wednesday, November 2nd | 3PM CET
Hosted by the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA), the European Institute of Astrobiology (EAI) Academy will offer a series of 17 didactic talks on the topics: "Missions to explore exoplanets", "Mars Sample Return", "Extreme environments on Earth" and "Lab simulations of planet and satellite atmospheres". For November second, please welcome Dr. Kristina Beblo-Vranesevic from DLR (Cologne, Germany) as she discusses “Microbial life in extreme environments of Earth”.
Going forward, the seminars will be offered for free and will be streamed online via zoom every two weeks on Wednesday from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CET (starting October 5, 2022).
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The Space Telescope Science Institute Planets, Life and the Universe Lecture Series: Ironing out Life’s First Breaths |
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Friday, November 4th | 12PM ET
Every cell contains a biochemical record of four billion years of Earth-life coevolution. Our mitochondria were once free-living bacteria. Each unit of the electron transport chain that we use to breathe oxygen was borrowed from older microbial machinery. Aerobic respiration is a medley of pieces of older anaerobic respiratory pathways such as methanogenesis, anoxygenic photosynthesis, and iron oxidation. Yet we have barely begun to chart the vast landscape of myriad microbial metabolisms. In this talk, I will describe how dissecting the molecular machines of modern microbes can give us glimpses of the early Earth environments that supported life’s first breaths.
Join in-person: Live at the Space Telescope Institute, Baltimore, MD
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