Center for Planetary Systems Habitability Special Seminar: We will hear from our five seed grant recipients about their proposed research! Each will give a 8 minute long lightning talk with a couple minutes for Q&A each.  

Identifying the microbiome associated with the Breezeway bio-mediated speleothems
Nicola Tisato, Carole Lakrout, Nathan Jones, Jackson School of Geosciences

Development of a Fully Integrated Opto-Thermo-Fluidic System for In SituDetection of Trace Chiral Prebiotic Molecules on Icy Bodies
Yuebing Zheng, Zilong Wu, Department of Mechanical Engineering

First steps towards quantifying habitability across the end-Triassic extinction in terrestrial ecosystems (Colorado Plateau, Round Rock, Arizona)
Cornelia Rasmussen, UTIG

Examining the relationship between continental weathering and Earth’s Great Oxygenation Event (GOE)
John Lassiter, Aaron Satkoski, Jackson School of Geosciences

Quantifying paleoclimate and habitability timescales from coupled lake systems on Mars
Gaia Stucky de Quay, Timothy Goudge, Jackson School of Geosciences