These podcasts are examples of distance learning lectures taken from the 2008 UF Astrobiology Course. The podcasts include synchronized audio and slides saved in an MP4 format.
Downloading Instructions
Jamie Foster PhD | email: jfoster@ufl.edu

Subject: Jupiter and the habitability of the icy moons.



To enhance and diversify the Astrobiology class, guest lecturers are invited to discuss their research and key topics in the multidisciplinary field of astrobiology.
Andrew Schuerger PhD | email: schuerg@ufl.edu
Assistant Research Faculty at the University of Florida Space Life Science Lab
Subject: Growth and survival of terrestrial bacteria on spacecraft during robotic missions to Mars.
Wayne Nicholson PhD | email: wln@ufl.edu
Professor at the University of Florida Space Life
Sciences lab
Subject: Lithopanspermia: transfer of microbes between worlds.




Students were assigned a ten-minute oral presentation on an astrobiology topic of their choosing. As an extra credit assignment some students chose to make podcasts of their presentations using the Garageband podcasting software for Mac. These podcasts reflect their creativity in editing and producing a science podcast.
Student 2008 Class Fieldtrip
Students enrolled in Astrobiology were invited to visit the Space Life Sciences Lab located at the Kennedy Space Center, FL. Here the students were able to interact and talk with researchers active in the field of Astrobiology.
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Ben Krasne

Subject: Human Colonization of Moon
Christina Usher

Subject: Dark Matter of the Universe
Dalissia Burke

Subject: Stardust Mission: A comet revealed
Josh Banner

Subject: Extremophiles of the Deep: Hydrothermal Vents
Samantha Carroll

Subject: Geological Features of Mars
Bill Horneman

Subject: Galileo Mission to Jupiter and the Icy moons




Downloading Instructions:

To download the podcast:
Click on the download icon, it will download to your defalut location on your computer.



To view the slides:
Click on the PDF icon and it will open up in your default PDF viewer, if you wish to download it, "Right Click" on the icon and from the contextual pull down menu, select your desired download location. If you have a MAC and do not have a 2 button mouse, there are 2 ways to download this file:
1) "Option-click" and it will automatically download.
2) "Control-click" will reveal the contextual pull-down menu where you can select your desired download location (same as right-clicking).

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