EANA Outstanding Paper Award
EANA is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For that reason, EANA is organizing several special events and activities in 2021. One of these activities will be the EANA outstanding paper award contest. EANA is an organisation that lives through its members and therefore the EANA council board would like to highlight the excellent research performed by the EANA community by awarding the best paper publication in the anniversary year. The paper will be selected from all sent suggestions. Andrè Brack and Barbara Cavalazzi will be leading the jury. An appointed jury will screen the...
Read MorePublic consultation: UN Sustainable Development Goals
Members of the Astrobiology Society of Britain are invited to contribute to a public consultation on the relevance of science to sustainable development goals (SDGs). OSDG is a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), SDG AI Lab, PPMI, and a community of researchers led by Dr. Nuria Bautista Puig. In Q1-Q2 of 2021 a large-scale exercise will be launched with the help of OSDG volunteers who will assess the relevance of different research fields to SDGs. This will provide valuable feedback on the boundaries of SDG-related research, and the...
Read MoreVirtual Frontiers of Sciences V
Frontiers of Sciences V will now be held as a virtual conference. In association with the RSB, RSC, the ASB and NoR CEL, Virtual Frontiers of Sciences V: A Spotlight on Scientific Discoveries of Our Times will be held on Saturday 20th March, 2021. To join contact Sohan Jheeta: sohan@sohanjheeta.com Timetable: 13.30—13.45: Open conference: Sohan Jheeta 13.45—14.30 (45 min): Dr Terry Kee, University of Leeds; Presentation: What isn’t Life? 14.30—15.15 (45 min): A/Prof Rowena Ball, Australian National University; Presentation: Anomalous thermal fluctuation distribution favours primordial...
Read MoreSpecial Issue of the Journal Life
A special issue of the journal Life — “Frontiers of Astrobiology” — is now open for submissions. Professor Manasvi Lingam serves as the Guest Editor, and the submission deadline is 3 July 2020. The objective of this special issue is to cover all realms of astrobiology, thus reflecting the inherent diversity of this field. Hence, all manner of papers are welcome — spanning both the physical and biological sciences, and ranging from experimental analyses to theoretical models — that are rigorous, comprehensive, and embody the latest developments in the field. In addition to regular...
Read MoreESA Call for Ideas: Future of Biology Research
ESA have extended the deadline and added a workshop to their call for ideas about the future of their biology research. The deadline for inputs is now 12 February 2020, and it will be followed by a workshop in ESTEC on the 26th-27th February 2020. Full details are here. Please consider providing input, this is your opportunity to shape ESA’s future work in this area. Call for Ideas: SciSpacE biology roadmaps evolution post 2024 and refinement of ESA’s Space Station biology research capabilities The SciSpacE research goals and specific objectives were defined with the research...
Read MoreThe 2019 Barrie Jones Award Lecture
The 2019 Barrie Jones Award Lecture will be given by Dr Sarah Rugheimer (University of Oxford), on Friday 6th December at 8pm UK time. The public lecture will once again be hosted at the Open University, Milton Keynes, and will take place as part of the wider outreach activity of Moon Night. Sarah’s work, as an astrobiologist and astronomer has taken her from Harvard to St Andrews and now Oxford, and her achievements in astrobiology-related outreach, teaching and mentoring can be found here. Sarah will give a public lecture, relating to her work on Exoplanets, and will be made...
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