August 26, 2019
T.C. Chamberlin Postdoc Stephanie Olson discussed how ocean circulation patterns may differ among habitable exoplanets and what these differences may mean for habitability in a keynote lecture at Goldschmidt in Barcelona, Spain. Her talk identified which types of planets are most likely to host remotely detectable ocean life and showed that some planets might be even more hospitable than Earth. Assistant Prof. Jansen and Associate Prof. Abbot also contributed to the study, which was then featured in a recent CNN piece. Congratulations!
August 26, 2019
Prof. Edwin Kite's recent publication on Martian groundwater circulation and its climatic implications was featured in UChicago News! Congratulations, Prof. Kite!
August 16, 2019
Work by Research Assistant Prof. Reika Yokochi made the latest cover of PNAS! Her recent publication probed the dual moisture sources and antiquity of deep desert aquifers in Israel using radiokrypton dating. She and her team determined that the past humid periods in the recharge areas were probably colder than present, and the long subsurface water residence time suggests that the Dead Sea Transform impedes water flow to create natural subsurface water reservoir that lasts hundreds of thousands years. In addition, the Prof. Yokochi was recently quoted in a UChicago News article discussing the publication. Congratulations!