Welcome to Happening @ S.A.G.A.N.!

Welcome to Happening @ S.A.G.A.N.! We’ll be posting here regularly about some of the exciting events and activities happening on S.A.G.A.N. (Social Action for a Grassroots Astrobiology Network)! If you haven’t logged in, and are interested in astrobiology, space exploration, or science in general you definitely want to check it out – S.A.G.A.N. is an educational initiative of Blue Marble Space that provides a collaborative web-platform for scientists and the public alike! Next week you can catch the Arizona State University Astrobiology Coffee […]

March 3, 2013 Leave a comment

Meet the team: Zach Adam

Every month, we’ll highlight a BMSIS scientist and feature them on this page. This month, Zach Adam answers our questions: BMSIS: Please tell us a little about yourself Zach Adam: I’m a PhD student studying geology at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, but before that I worked as an aerospace engineer for about 3 years. Each week, as I saw that more and more planets were being found outside our solar system by the Kepler spacecraft, I felt that my day-to-day […]

February 13, 2013 Leave a comment

Podcast: Dr. Jon Petters on Science & Policy

The February edition of “Beer with BMSIS” is now available online! This month’s podcast features a discussion with Dr. Jon Petters titled “Democracy in Action: An Atmospheric Scientist Jumps into Science Policy“. Join us as Jon discusses his experiences as a AAAS fellow in Washington D.C. and his advice for scientists interested in policy. [listen to the conversation]

January 25, 2013 Leave a comment

AGU Podcast Special

In lieu of our usual monthly podcasts for December/January, we invite you to listen to a BwBMSIS Winter special: Dr. Sanjoy Som presents: The AGU special! A taste of the people at the American Geophysical Union Conference recorded at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 3 – 7 2012 Join us as we follow Dr. Sanjoy Som during the week of the American Geophysical Union conference, and meet journalists, students, scientists and exhibitors at this yearly major geoscience […]

October 29, 2012 Leave a comment

BMSIS Scientists have been busy with exciting results!

In particular: Penido, J., Fassett, C. & Som, S.. “Scaling relationships and concavity of small valleys on Mars”. Planetary and Space Science, In press doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.09.009, 2012. Haqq-Misra, J. “An ecological compass for planetary engineering”. Astrobiology, 12, pp 985-997, doi:10.1089/ast.2011.0796, 2012. Claire, M.W., Sheets, J., Cohen, M., Ribas, I., Meadows, V.S., & Catling, D.C. “The evolution of the solar flux from 0.1nm to 160 um: Quantitative estimates for planetary studies”. The Astrophysical Journal, 757(1), doi:10.1088/0004-637X/757/1/95, 2012. Cleaves, H.J., Scott, A.M., […]

July 23, 2012 Leave a comment

BMSIS Scientist featured online

BMSIS Scientist Dr. Betül Kaçar’s work on re-creating ancient genes and evolving them in modern organisms has been featured in online news outlets [1] [2]! Dr. Kaçar did her work at the Georgia Tech Center for Ribosomal Origins and Evolution. Read more about Dr. Kaçar here.

May 13, 2012 Leave a comment

Beer with BMSIS – May 2012

The May 2012 science podcast of “Beer with BMSIS” is now available. This month, Zach Adam discusses ” Proto-erotica: Looking for evidence of sex in 1.4 billion year old rocks, and wondering how common it is to find aliens that do it too “. Tune in for a fascinating conversation.

March 29, 2012 Leave a comment

BMSIS science featured in ‘Nature’ magazine

BMSIS scientist Sanjoy Som and collaborators from the University of Washington in Seattle published in ‘Nature’ a method to calculate the air density 2.7 billion years ago by measuring fossil raindrop imprints. The work, coupling experiments of falling raindrops with theoretical predictions of raindrop dynamics, allowed the scientists to constrain atmospheric density to at most 2x present levels, but rainfall statistics favor an air density more probably between 0.5x – 1.05x present levels. Read more in Extended Summary!

February 14, 2012 Leave a comment

BMSIS Scientists featured in NYT article

BMSIS Scientists Michael Busch, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Seth Baum and Dimitra Atri were featured in article entitled “What do you say to an alien” that was published on February 11th 2012 in the New York Times. What Do You Say to an Alien? David Sandlin By SAM ROBERTS Published: February 11, 2012 www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/messages-to-et.html THIRTY-FIVE years ago, a gold-plated record was lofted into the cosmos with a greeting card for the first extraterrestrials who found it. The golden plaque, attached to the Voyager spacecraft, was […]

January 16, 2012 Leave a comment

Beer with BMSIS – January 2012

The January 2012 science podcast of “Beer with BMSIS” is now available. This month, Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman discusses “How baseball blogging can save the world“. Tune in for a fascinating conversation.

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