Astrobiology Opportunities and Resources

For those who are interested to stay connected with the astrobiology research community, we encourage you to freely take advantage of these opportunities and resources, which are sponsored and organized by various organizations around the world.

Explainables Science Communication Video Sessions

Our partners, Explainables, produced Science Communication video sessions for #AbGradCon2021, and now they are available publicly (until November 15th)!

Best Practice for Creating Scientific Presentations and Posters: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8785672

Branding, Networking and Marketing for Scientist: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8778720

Proposal Writing Resources

Tips and process for writing a NASA science (ROSES) proposal video.

Tips and process for writing a NASA mission proposal: Youtube and full PI Launchpad workshop (10 videos).

NASA organization and mission life cycle.

HFSP (Human Frontier Science Project) Program Introduction: Youtube.

Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center

The Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center (EMAC) serves as a catalog, repository and integration platform for modeling and analysis resources focused on the study of exoplanet characteristics and environments. EMAC is a new web-based collaboration and software development project hosted at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and is a key project of the GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC). This project intends to bring together open-source modeling and analysis software as well as computed model outputs to create a central clearinghouse where the exoplanet community, including astrobiologists, can access a wide range of useful exoplanet science resources.

Intro Video

Twitter

YouTube

BUFFET (Building a Unified Framework For Exoplanet Treatments) Workshop, September 27-29, 2021 (Online).

Conferences

Network of Researchers on the Chemical Evolution of Life (NoR CEL) 5th Meeting, TBD - Online (Every year)

Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life (ILASOL), Spring - Rehovot, Israel (Every year)

Artificial Life conference (ALife), Summer (Every year)

International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life (ISSOL) Fall 2021 (Online) - Quito, Ecuador (Every 3 years)

EANA, September 7-10, 2021 (TBD) - Online (Every year)

AbGradE, September 2-3, 2021 - Online (Every year)

Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON), April 25-29, 2022 - La Palma, Spain (Every 2 years)

AbGradEPEC (Europlanet Early Career Network), Before BEACON 2022 - La Palma Spain (and also possibly before the EANA meeting) (Every year)

Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon), May 15-20, 2022 - Atlanta, USA (Every 2 years)

Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the Origins of Life, January, 2022 - Houston, USA (Every 2 years)

Schools

Astrobiology Introductory Course RED, March 13-19, 2022 (In-person or Online Yearly)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) Summer School in Planetary Sciences, Summer - Open Worldwide (Online, Yearly)

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Sagan Exoplanet Summer Virtual Workshop, Summer - Open worldwide (Yearly)

Aquaplanetology Winter School, Tokyo, Japan, 2021 (TBD) - Open worldwide (old 2020 website) (Yearly, until 2022)

Keio Astrobiology Camp, Tsuruoka, Japan, Spring (Online) - Open to students in Japan (Yearly)

International Summer School in Astrobiology, Santander, Spain, Summer (TBD) - Open to US- and Europe-based students (Yearly)

International Astronomical Union (IAU) International School for Young Astronomers - a number of schools around the world each year