Daniella Scalice, Education and Communication Lead for the NASA Astrobiology Program, visits New Zealand
Daniella Scalice, Education and Communication Lead for the NASA Astrobiology Program is coming to New Zealand in October. In 2005 she and her Diné colleagues co-founded the “NASA and the Navajo Nation” initiative, an ongoing collaboration that has produced classroom materials, teacher trainings, and student summer camps which weave together Western scientific and Navajo Cultural knowledge. We are looking forward to welcoming her to New Zealand.
AAM 2018 – Astrobiology Australasia Meeting
New Zealand’s first international conference in astrobiology took place in Rotorua on the 24th, 25 and 26th of June 2018. Here is a synopsis of the event.
Life on Mars and other things interview with Mitch Schulte
Interview by Massey University Radio Control
TE AO MĀRAMA meeting
Abstracts are now accepted for consideration as talks or posters for TE AO MĀRAMA MEETING – free registration. When: 24-25 October 2018, Where: The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Auckland
Angélica Anglés, astrobiologist, visiting New Zealand
Dr Angélica Anglés attended the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018 in June 2018 and also the Synergies in Space Mission to Mars in September 2018. Angélica Anglés completed her BEng at the University of Gävle (Sweden) and University of Valencia (Spain). She completed 3 MSc degrees in Space Geodesy, Astrophysics and Planetary Science at University of […]
Liquid water detected on Mars, can it hold life?
This week, the European Space Agency announced that radar data collected by ESA’s Mars Express point to a pond of liquid water buried under layers of ice and dust in the south polar region of Mars. There is a long way between finding liquid brine pools on Mars and finding life. However, there might be a similar place on Earth, the Blood Falls in Antarctica that originate from a hypersaline brine groundwater environment that supports an anaerobic microbial ecosystem sustained by chemical energy. Professor Ian Hawes from Waikato University explains the importance of the discovery from Mars.
Professor Ian Hawes, Waikato University
Like many, Ian came to Astrobiology by accident. A career-long research focus on Antarctic lakes, a network of collaborators and a conversation in a Chicago pub led to the revelation that some of these lakes, where microbes rule, contain analogues of the earliest known communities on Earth. Since then the theme of astrobiology has been […]
Dr Mitch Schulte, NASA
Mitch Schulte is a Program Scientist with the Mars Exploration Program in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. As a Program Scientist, Mitch is responsible for and manages the science content of a number of NASA’s Mars missions. He has visited New Zealand in 2018.
Rotorua important to astrobiology research – NZAN in New Zealand Herald
An astrobiology conference has kicked off in Rotorua today giving students the opportunity to learn more about the possibility of life outside of earth and the future for mankind. Read more at NZ HERALD Thank you for the great feature!
Dr Lindsay Hays, NASA
Dr. Lindsay Hays, Deputy Program Scientist for NASA’s Astrobiology Program was in New Zealand in 2018.