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News
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Microbio makes it to the Tribune
July 11, 2019
Field work by graduate students María Hernández-Limón and Justin Podowski and Assistant Prof. Maureen Coleman was recently featured on the front page of the Chicago Tribune! The team has been sampling the Great Lakes to better understand their microbial ecosystems. Congratulations to all!
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Olson, Jansen, and Abbot identify the best planets for life.
July 01, 2019
T.C. Chamberlin Postdoc Stephanie Olson showed that not all planets with oceans are equally habitable at AbSciCon 2019 in Bellevue, WA. She described the types of planets that will make the best hosts for ocean-dwelling life, and her models will inform NASA's search for life in the Universe by identifying favorable targets for life detection missions. Assistant Prof. Jansen and Associate Prof. Abbot also contributed to the study, which has been highlighted in Cosmos Magazine. Congratulations to all!
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Io’s eccentricity cycles tied to volcanism in Loki Patera
June 29, 2019
A recent publication by Katherine de Kleer of Caltech, Francis Nimmo of UC Santa Cruz and our own Assistant Prof. Edwin Kite was just featured in the New York Times! de Kleer et al. explored the relationship between Io's eccentricity cycles and activity in the moon's largest volcanic depression. The paper was published in Geophysical Research Letters in May. Congratulations to all!
Io in IR from Feb. 2016 to July 2017, de Kleer et al.