Coffee, cotton and cannabis: Sr isotopes and the geolocation of botanical materials!

For the list of Isoscapes 2008 abstracts (Gwyn's is #47), click here.

To learn about the Isoscapes 2008 conference, click here

Exciting results are emerging from the Hamersley core! Elemental and isotopic indicators point to the presence of small but significant amounts of O2 in the environment 2.5 billion years ago, 50 - 100 million years before the "Great Oxidation Event".

For the ASU press release, click here.

Several Anbar Group research projects were presented in talks and posters at the Goldschmidt Conference in Cologne, Germany, in late August, 2007. Talks and posters were coauthored by Ariel Anbar and Laura Wasylenki, who attended, as well as by Gail Arnold, Yun Duan and Gwyneth Gordon and recent postdocs and visitors Tais Dahl, Chris Siebert and Stefan Weyer.

Ariel is serving as Chair of the Science Steering Committee for the 2008 Astrobiology Science Conference. Information about the meeting and members of the committee can be found here. Abstracts are due October 15!

Hear Paul Davies, John Baross, David Grinspoon and our own Felisa Wolfe-Simon talk about the possibility of alternative life here on Earth in this BBC World Report interview by Pauline Newman.