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Science, education and engagement at the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018
The first international astrobiology conference in New Zealand, AAM2018 was an extraordinary opportunity for engagement. In addition to the main conference, there was an informal ‘no host’ function which saw significant turn out, an astrobiology workshop for teachers held one day in advance and numerous other engagements from Dr Seth Shostak, Dr Mitch Schulte, Dr Lindsay Hays and Dr Angelica Angles.
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.
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
The 2nd International Mars Sample Return Conference
Professor Kathy Campbell of University of Auckland and Chair of the Board of trustees for the New Zealand Astrobiology Network was invited to the 2nd International Mars Sample Return Conference in Berlin, April 2018, where she presented on the value of returning samples from hydrothermal environments as part of a NASA led team of 71 scientists from around the world.
Dr Seth Shostak, speaker at the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018
Dr. Seth Shostak
New Zealand’s hot springs contribute to discovery of oldest evidence for life on land!
Life might have colonised land 580 million years earlier than previously thought – and this has also implications for the search for life on Mars.
Professor Kathy Campbell from University of Auckland is co-author of a paper published in Nature comms that pushes the evidence for the oldest life on land by 580 million years from 2.9 to 3.5 billion years.
Professor Anthony Poole awarded Marsden grant to unravel evolutionary origins of DNA
NZ scientists seek to unravel the evolutionary origins of DNA. Professor Anthony Poole from University of Auckland has been awarded a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund grant to unravel the evolutionary origins of DNA. What is the story of DNA? The four letters A, T, G and C make up the alphabet of […]