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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeua_irDJ4 Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )Special Guest: Tonight we are very excited to welcome Dr. Kathryn Bywaters, Research Scientist at the SETI Insitute where she is currently working on the development of life-detection instrumentation for future space exploration. Additionally, she is investigating the nutrient constraints microbes would have on Mars as well as performing experiments in Mars analog environments.   As a pre-teen, Kathryn's family moved from California to St. Petersberg, Russia, and later to France. During this time Kathryn absorbed all of the history, culture, the local people, and everything else these locales could offer young adult. After spending four years in France, Kathryn decided to return to the States where she enrolled in a local community college and began her academic career. Kathryn went on to earn a Bachelors Degree in biochemistry from California State University San Marcos, and her PhD in Environment Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, after which she completed a two year Post Doc at NASA Ames Research Center.   Kathryn's career includes extensive fieldwork, including four months on Devon Island in the Canadian High Artic as a member of a Mars Society crew living under simulated Mars conditions, as well as the Yungay region of the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth.   Oh - and if all of the above isn't enough, Kathryn is also the author of a fantasy novel titled The Past is Rising – which she wrote during her doctorate studies and post doc fellowship at NASA!   To learn more about Kathryn and her truly fascinating life, visit her SETI page  https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/k... as well as her personal site:  https://www.kathrynbywaters.com/about   You can find out about The Past is Rising by visiting  https://www.kathrynbywaters.com/welcome or visithttps://www.kathrynbywaters.com/book to read its first chapter online! Regular Guests: Dr. Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ &amp; @MorganRehnberg ) Michael Rodruck ( https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/ / @MichaelRodruck ) Beth Johnson - SETI Institute ( @SETIInstitute / @planetarypan ) This week's stories: - Neptune's moons dance weirdly... - How much is commercial crew gonna cost? - StarLink satellites interfere with science as predicted. - Un Oh. There's an R.U.D. with StarShip...   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeua_irDJ4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeua_irDJ4</a> Host: Fraser Cain ( <a href="https://twitter.com/fcain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@fcain</a> )Special Guest: Tonight we are very excited to welcome Dr. Kathryn Bywaters, Research Scientist at the SETI Insitute where she is currently working on the development of life-detection instrumentation for future space exploration. Additionally, she is investigating the nutrient constraints microbes would have on Mars as well as performing experiments in Mars analog environments. As a pre-teen, Kathryn's family moved from California to St. Petersberg, Russia, and later to France. During this time Kathryn absorbed all of the history, culture, the local people, and everything else these locales could offer young adult. After spending four years in France, Kathryn decided to return to the States where she enrolled in a local community college and began her academic career. Kathryn went on to earn a Bachelors Degree in biochemistry from California State University San Marcos, and her PhD in Environment Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, after which she completed a two year Post Doc at NASA Ames Research Center. Kathryn's career includes extensive fieldwork, including four months on Devon Island in the Canadian High Artic as a member of a Mars Society crew living under simulated Mars conditions, as well as the Yungay region of the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. Oh - and if all of the above isn't enough, Kathryn is also the author of a fantasy novel titled The Past is Rising – which she wrote during her doctorate studies and post doc fellowship at NASA! To learn more about Kathryn and her truly fascinating life, visit her SETI page <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=oHeua_irDJ4&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=H0D-WzIzzRIyGnU5QcHb_sxFdVV8MTU3NDM4NzQ0MUAxNTc0MzAxMDQx&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seti.org%2Four-scientists%2Fkathryn-bywaters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/k...</a> as well as her personal site: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=oHeua_irDJ4&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=H0D-WzIzzRIyGnU5QcHb_sxFdVV8MTU3NDM4NzQ0MUAxNTc0MzAxMDQx&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kathrynbywaters.com%2Fabout" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.kathrynbywaters.com/about</a> You can find out about The Past is Rising by visiting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=oHeua_irDJ4&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=H0D-WzIzzRIyGnU5QcHb_sxFdVV8MTU3NDM4NzQ0MUAxNTc0MzAxMDQx&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kathrynbywaters.com%2Fwelcome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.kathrynbywaters.com/welcome</a> or visit<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=oHeua_irDJ4&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=H0D-WzIzzRIyGnU5QcHb_sxFdVV8MTU3NDM4NzQ0MUAxNTc0MzAxMDQx&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kathrynbywaters.com%2Fbook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kathrynbywaters.com/book</a> to read its first chapter online! Regular Guests: Dr. Morgan Rehnberg ( <a href="http://cosmicchatter.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://cosmicchatter.org/</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/MorganRehnberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MorganRehnberg</a> ) Michael Rodruck ( <a href="https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelRodruck" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MichaelRodruck</a> ) Beth Johnson - SETI Institute ( <a href="https://twitter.com/SETIInstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@SETIInstitute</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/planetarypan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@planetarypan</a> ) This week's stories: - Neptune's moons dance weirdly... - How much is commercial crew gonna cost? - StarLink satellites interfere with science as predicted. - Un Oh. There's an R.U.D. with StarShip... We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy</a> and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit <a href="http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/</a> for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! <a href="http://cosmoquest.org/Donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://cosmoquest.org/Donate</a> This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just <a href="http://cosmoquest.org/Donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click</a>!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. <a href="http://www.astrosphere.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.astrosphere.org/</a> Visit us on the web at <a href="http://365DaysOfAstronomy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">365DaysOfAstronomy.org</a> or email us at <a href="mailto:info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org">info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org</a>.

Weekly Space Hangout - Guest: Kathryn Bywaters, Research Scientist at the SETI Institute

To search for life beyond Earth, we first have to decide on several key factors, such as where we should look. Several locations within our solar system have been identified that might be habitable. An ideal place to look might be the icy moons around Saturn and Jupiter with their liquid oceans. However, once we decide where to look for life we then need to determine what we will look for and how we will look for it. If there is life in this solar system, other than on Earth, it seems most likely that it will be in the form of microbes. But what if it doesn’t look like life on Earth—how will we know when we find it?

Kathryn Bywaters, SETI Institute: The Search for Life Beyond Earth