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Jessica Watkins, who earned a doctorate in geology from UCLA in 2015, will spend six months on the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission.
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New research discovers surprising activity among organisms thriving in extremely deep, hot sub-seafloor
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Title: The deep Earth redox engine
Date: May 17, 2022
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Speaker: Susannah Dorfman
Title: TBA
Date: May 18, 2022
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Xiyuan Bao
Title: The rise of wildfire disasters in the 21st century: what have we learned?
Date: May 24, 2022
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Speaker: Crystal Kolden
Title: TBA
Date: May 25, 2022
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Tian Feng
Title: TBA
Date: May 25, 2022
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Travis Gilmore
