Conference: American Society for Microbiology 109th General Meeting

When May 17, 2009 (Sun) ~ May 21, 2009 (Thu)

Where Philadelphia, PA, USA

FAR Seminar: Analogue Research and Instrumentation Seminar

When May 18, 2009 (Mon) at 11:00AM PDT

Where Virtual

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Posted on: September 19, 2008 / Posted by: Estelle Dodson

Conference: American Geophysical Union

When May 24, 2009 (Sun) ~ May 27, 2009 (Wed)

Where Toranto, Canada

Conference: AAS 214th Meeting

When June 7, 2009 (Sun) ~ June 11, 2009 (Thu)

Where Pasadena, CA, USA

FAR Seminar: Search for Life Seminar

When June 8, 2009 (Mon) at 11:00AM PDT

Where Virtual

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Posted on: November 17, 2008 / Posted by: Estelle Dodson

Conference: Goldschmidt 2009 - "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet"

When June 21, 2009 (Sun) ~ June 26, 2009 (Fri)

Where Davos, Switzerland

Course: 2009 Santander Summer School: Earth's Extremophiles and Extraterrestrial Habitability

When June 22, 2009 (Mon) ~ June 26, 2009 (Fri)

Where Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Location: Palacio de Magdalena, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Dates: June 22-26, 2009
Deadline: Closing date for NAI scholarship applications – April 24.

Overview:
This year the program is devoted to an understanding of the characteristics and diversity of organisms that inhabit Earth’s extreme environments. These organisms exist at the physical and chemical extreme conditions that life’s processes on Earth allow. Extreme environments of interest for astrobiology are, for example, the high-pressure sea floor, the permafrost of the Polar Regions, places with...

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Event: Emergence in Chemical Systems Conference June 22-26 University of Alaska, Anchorage

When June 22, 2009 (Mon) ~ June 26, 2009 (Fri)

Where Alaska, USA

The spontaneous increase of complexity, from nucleons to atoms to compounds to cells to organism and society, is a basic property of nature. It involves the continuous creation of new entities and processes. The subject of this conference is to try to understand this drive to increase complexity and to creatively participate in the process.

The conference sections are:
Constructing Chemical Complexity
Transition from Non-living to Living Matter
Complex Networks of Physical and Chemical Processes
What Chemical...

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Posted on: March 25, 2009 / Posted by: Yael Kovo

Course: NAI - Nordic Summer school: “Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe”

When June 29, 2009 (Mon) ~ July 13, 2009 (Mon)

Where Iceland

Iceland, 29 June to 13 July 2009

The NASA Astrobiology Institute and the Nordic Astrobiology Network will conduct a summer school on the role of water in the evolution of life in the cosmos in Iceland on the above dates. The school is intended for students and post-docs in astrobiology-related subjects (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geosciences etc.) The school will be organized in three sections:

• An introductory lecture course
• Excursions to several places in Iceland of astrobiological interest (hot...

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Conference: Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference (AbGradCon)

When July 17, 2009 (Fri) ~ July 20, 2009 (Mon)

Where Seattle, WA, USA

Goals for the 2009 meeting are:

• to create an environment of shared learning, by providing time for oral and poster presentations
• to foster in-situ multidisciplinary awareness by providing 2 outstanding field trips of different focus (astrobiological volcanology and astrobiological oceanography)
• to create and maintain a network of interdisciplinary scientists
• to encourage interdisciplinary research projects by providing time during the congress, and rewarding outstanding collaborative ideas, and
• to broadcast the conference to the internet community via web 2.0 technologies.

Conference: Division for Planetary Sciences

When October 4, 2009 (Sun) ~ October 9, 2009 (Fri)

Where San Juan, Puerto Rico

Conference: Geological Society of America

When October 18, 2009 (Sun) ~ October 21, 2009 (Wed)

Where Portland, OR, USA

Event: Origin of Life Gordon Research Seminar

When January 9, 2010 (Sat) ~ January 10, 2010 (Sun)

Where Galveston, TX, USA

Conference: Origin of Life Gordon Conference

When January 10, 2010 (Sun) ~ January 15, 2010 (Fri)

Where Hotel Galvez, Galveston, Texas, USA

The origin and early development of life whether specifically on Earth, or possibly elsewhere in the universe, remains one of the great unsolved scientific problems. The 2010 Gordon Conference on the Origin of Life will present highly interdisciplinary cutting-edge research that seeks to improve our understanding of origins while allowing increasingly realistic scenarios for major events in life’s history. This year’s conference will again underscore the rich diversity of perspectives while addressing a variety of key questions. Does life uniquely...

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Funding Deadline: The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology

When February 1, 2010 (Mon)

Where

Posted on: September 19, 2008 / Posted by: Shige Abe