AbSciCon!
So as it turns out, there are a lot of other people interested in the search for extra-terrestrial life. Who knew, right? So many people, in fact, that there's an entire convention for it. The Astrobiology Science Conference, of AbSciCon, will be hosted in Atlanta, Georgia in mid April. I wish I could go. Perhaps next year?
When discussing what exactly kind of research I wanted to do, my adviser Dr. Canalizo recommended speaking with Dr. Lyons here at UCR. Unfortunately no one in the Astronomy department is doing research on anything within our solar system or Astrobiology. Dr. Lyons is part of the Geology/Biogeochemistry department, and one of his projects is to study early Earth conditions to see exactly what happened to make it viable for life. Bingo! Sign me up for that! While my work now isn't exactly glamorous (I take small rocks and use a machine to turn them into powder), eventually I will get to work on more interesting things. Plus, I knew I'd be way more interested in hands-on experimental research rather than theoretical. So my plan is to work my ass off until next year, and pray to the gods of grants to get funding for the trip.
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