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Student's Guide to Astrobiology

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  • What educational programs does NASA offer?
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  • What organizations can I join?
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  •  What is Astrobiology?
  • What is Astrobiology? by Keith Cowing

  • What is an Astrobiologist - and how to do I become one?

  • Astrobiology at NASA Ames Research Center

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  •  News Items
  • 4 October 1998:  Majoring in Martians, Wired

    "Graduates will be able to receive degrees in 11 areas, with an emphasis in astrobiology. Students can choose from oceanography, astronomy, aeronautics and astronautics, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, atmospheric sciences, geophysics, geological sciences, or history as their core focus of study. "

  • 1 October 1998: UW prepares for first graduate program in astrobiology to train those who will hunt for life in outer space, University of Washington press release

  • 23 September 1998:  "Planetary Biology", hosted by Tom Morris, Fullerton California

  • 30 April 1998:  Student winners to be honored in Washington, DC,  [list of the winners],  NASA press release

  • 22 January 1998: NASA Comet and Jupiter missions offer educator rellowships, JPL press release

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  •  Where can I study Astrobiology?
    NASA Resources:

  • The NASA Astrobiology Academy, NASA Ames Research Center

  • The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


    University Programs:

  • Astrobiology: The Search for Life on Other Worlds Integrating the Sciences in an Inquiry-based High School Course, TERC and NSF

  • Voyages Through Time: A New Curriculum Development Project, The SETI Institute

  • Tulane University Environmental Astrobiology Center

  • Stanford University: Astrobiology and Space Exploration, Human Biology 107, Spring 1998 class schedule, abstracts of lectures, information for students, and additional references. [HMTL] [Word] [Adobe Acrobat] Taught by: Dr. Malcolm Cohen, NASA Ames Research Center email: mmcohen@mailarc.nasa.gov

  • University of Washington UW prepares for first graduate program in astrobiology to train those who will hunt for life in outer space, 1 October 1998 press release

  • Orgeon State University: HC 407 Astrobiology: The Living Universe, 3 UHC credits, Taught by Dr. Terri Lomax email: lomaxt@bcc.orst.edu

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  •  Who can I contact at NASA?
  • NASA Education Contacts
  • NASA Field Centers and Precollege Contacts
  • NASA Field Centers and Higher Education Contacts [TOP]

  •  What organization(s) can I join?
  • Aerospace States Association
  • Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA)
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB)
  • Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
  • European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA)
  • International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine
  • The International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (IAGC)
  • International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP)
  • International Society of Gravitational Physiology - no website
  • International Space University (ISU)
  • National Space Society (NSS)
  • The Planetary Society
  • Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
  • Universities Space Research Association [TOP]

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