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Spring 2012

A nice piece on ACL PIs Dave Johnston and Francis Macdonald's recent paper in Nature on interpreting the carbon isotopic record of carbonate rocks in the Neoproterozoic. Check it out!

Spring 2012

Check out images from our Space Day event at the MIT Museum as part of the Cambridge Science festival. 

August 15th, 2011

Check out more information on our youth-developed astrobiology exhibit this week and next at MIT! 

August 8th, 2011

Check out our temporary Astrobiology museum exhibit, on display at both the MIT Stata Center and the MIT Museum! We will have a special event on August 22nd at the MIT Museum featuring three Cambridge-based scientists working on the cutting edge of Astrobiology research:

Florence Schubotz
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
MIT
http://www-eaps.mit.edu/geobiology/people/florence.html

Taylor Perron
Cecil & Ida Green Assistant Professor of Geology
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
MIT
http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/perron/index.html

Soeren Meibon
Astronomer
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~smeibom/ 

 

July 27th, 2011

Astrobiology exhibit opening at the MIT Museum August 22nd!

Education and Outreach Lead Phoebe Cohen has been working with MIT's Youth Astronomy Apprenticeship program for the past year. YAA is run by Dr. Irene Porro, and is an out-of-school time (OST) initiative to foster science learning among urban teenage youth (ages 15-19) and their communities. With funding from the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Cohen and Porro have been working with YAA youth to develop a traveling astrobiology exhibit. This exhibit will be showcased at the MIT Museum from August 22nd to August 26th. There will be a special opening reception with talks by MIT researchers on August 22nd from 5-7 PM. In addition, the exhibit will be displayed from August 17th-19th at MIT's Stata Center. If you are in the Boston area, come check out all of our hard work and learn something about searching for life beyond our planet Earth!