Posts Tagged ‘ atmosphere ’

Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting – Pasadena, CA

Laura Schaefer attended the 42nd annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The meeting was held in Pasadena, CA on October 3 – 8, 2010. Laura gave a talk entitled ‘Equilibrium Chemistry of the Atmospheres of Hot Earth-like Exoplanets’, which is available on our Presentations page. [ READ MORE ]

EARTH magazine article

The magazine EARTH has an article about Prof. Fegley and Laura Schaefer’s work on the exoplanet CoRoT-7b in it’s January 2010 issue. The article is titled “Today’s Forecast: Quartz with a Chance of Feldspar” and is available both online and in the print issue. [ READ MORE ]

UCF Winter Workshop

Laura Schaefer presented a talk at the UCF Winter Workshop on Exoplanets for Planetary Scientists. All talks and posters presented at the workshop are available at their website. Laura’s talk (Atmospheres of Hot Exoplanets) is also available as a PowerPoint presentation on our Presentations page. [ READ MORE ]

Chapter on Early Atmosphere

Bruce Fegley and Laura Schaefer have co-written a chapter on the Earth’s earliest atmospheres with Kevin Zahnle of NASA Ames.  The chapter will appear in a book about the origins of life edited by Dave Deamer and Jack Szostak. A preprint of the chapter is available here. [ READ MORE ]

Invited talk on exoplanet atmospheres

Laura Schaefer has been invited to give a talk at the Winter 2010 Planetary Science Workshop on exoplanets. The workshop will be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on January 6-8. Laura’s talk will cover her work on the magma ocean exoplanett CoRoT-7b, which was published in the October 1st issue of [ READ MORE ]