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New Zealand Astrobiology Network is the National Coordinator for World Space Week: 4-10 October every year!
14 June 2019
Since 2019, New Zealand Astrobiology Network is the National Coordinator of the World Space Week in New Zealand, a United Nations celebration of space that occurs every year from 4-10 October.
Hans Huybrighs, Max Planck Institute and European Space Agency (ESA)
23 October 2018
Hans Huybrighs from Max Plank Institute is visiting Wellington. He will give a talk for the New Zealand Astrobiology Network in partnership with Milky-Way.kiwi, News from the Galactic Centre talking about water volcanoes on Europa, and what is it like to be tasting an extraterrestrial ocean.
Daniella Scalice visits New Zealand
15 October 2018
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.
Angélica Anglés
22 August 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 Karlsruhe (Germany), Imperial College London and the last one at University College London, where her research focused on the orbital detection of cyanobacteria on the Martian Polar Caps as […]
Professor Ian Hawes, Waikato University
3 July 2018
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 an important sub-plot in his […]
Dr Mitch Schulte, NASA
1 July 2018
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.
NASA MSL rover discovers methane on Mars, what does it mean?
7 June 2018
NASA MSL rover discovers methane on Mars, what does it mean? Listen to NZAN Professor Kathy Campbell talking on New Zealand's TV3 AM show about the NASA Curiosity discovery of organic molecules on Mars' surface.
Europe launches a Virtual Institute for Astrobiology
7 June 2018
Europe launches The European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) at the recommendations of the AstroMap Report.
Dr Seth Shostak, speaker at the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018
17 April 2018
We are very happy to announce Dr. Seth Shostak will speak at the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018, held in Rotorua, 25 and 26 of June 2018
Haritina Mogoșanu, Executive Director NZAN
17 January 2018
Haritina Mogoșanu is the Executive Director of the New Zealand Astrobiology Network (NZAN) and a research scientist for the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS).
