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Alex Sousa in the Cardace Lab at the University of Rhode Island was awarded an Early Career Collaboration Award to join the Oman Drilling Project core description effort on board the Japanese drilling vessel, the Chikyu, in Summer 2018. Alex was also funded to visit CU Boulder after the core...

Eric Dunham, a graduate student in the Boyd Lab at Montana State University was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study the role of microscale interactions in the productivity and assembly of mineral-hosted microbial communities. See the Montana State press release .

RPL co-I John Spear and graduate student Emily Kraus at the Colorado School of Mines hosted the 2 nd Annual Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium in Golden, CO in April 2018. The meeting drew together more than 50 Astrobiology and Geobiology participants from Universities and research centers in Colorado, Montana, Utah, Kansas, and Arizona.

Many RPL team members organized and participated in the NASA Workshop Without Walls focused on Serpentinizing Systems Science that was held online from Jan. 31 – Feb. 2, 2017. At its peak, there were ~100 separate participants and participant groups that connected via Adobe Connect to listen and view the...