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2016-2017 Year Book Www
1 2016-2017 YEAR BOOK WWW. C A R N E G I E S C I E N C E . E D U Department of Embryology 3520 San Martin Dr. / Baltimore, MD 21218 410.246.3001 Geophysical Laboratory 5251 Broad Branch Rd., N.W. / Washington, DC 20015-1305 202.478.8900 Department of Global Ecology 260 Panama St. / Stanford, CA 94305-4101 650.462.1047 The Carnegie Observatories 813 Santa Barbara St. / Pasadena, CA 91101-1292 626.577.1122 Las Campanas Observatory Casilla 601 / La Serena, Chile Department of Plant Biology 260 Panama St. / Stanford, CA 94305-4101 650.325.1521 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 5241 Broad Branch Rd., N.W. / Washington, DC 20015-1305 202.478.8820 Office of Administration 1530 P St., N.W. / Washington, DC 20005-1910 202.387.6400 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7 Y E A R B O O K The President’s Report July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017 C A R N E G I E I N S T I T U T I O N F O R S C I E N C E Former Presidents Daniel C. Gilman, 1902–1904 Robert S. Woodward, 1904–1920 John C. Merriam, 1921–1938 Vannevar Bush, 1939–1955 Caryl P. Haskins, 1956–1971 Philip H. Abelson, 1971–1978 James D. Ebert, 1978–1987 Edward E. David, Jr. (Acting President, 1987–1988) Maxine F. Singer, 1988–2002 Michael E. Gellert (Acting President, Jan.–April 2003) Richard A. Meserve, 2003–2014 Former Trustees Philip H. Abelson, 1978–2004 Patrick E. -
To Serve at the Pleasure of the President
2 Update Endeavour Vol.33 No.1 publishing, church reform, professionalization, gender into the world of Victorian science publishing offer import- dynamics, visual spectacle and social change, and he ant lessons for our own era’s continuing struggle with the makes substantial contributions to understanding the question of scientific authority. relationship between those matters and science. Histor- ians interested in any of these issues will find this book 0160-9327/$ – see front matter ß 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. enriching and thought provoking. The author’s insights doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.01.001 Book Review To serve at the pleasure of the President In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America by Zouyue Wang, Rutgers University Press (2008), 455 pp. + xix, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4331-4 Rena Selya* Department of History, UCLA, 6265 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473, USA In Sputnik’s Shadow is a comprehensive 1957. Even before Sputnik, he had relied heavily on the history of the President’s Science Advisory Office of Defense Mobilization Science Advisory Commit- Committee (PSAC) from its 1957 incep- tee and its various studies and panels for guidance, and tion by President Eisenhower to its dis- many of the members of ODM-SAC were invited to join solution by President Nixon in 1973. In PSAC. Although their first tasks were focused narrowly on Zouyue Wang’s detailed account, the Pre- restoring American scientific prestige after the embar- sident, the individual members of the rassment of Sputnik, PSAC soon became Eisenhower’s Committee and the chair, who was the source for clear advice on matters that were not strictly President’s special assistant for science scientific. -
2019 Silent Auction List
September 22, 2019 ………………...... 10 am - 10:30 am S-1 2018 Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction poster, signed by Ariana DeBose, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Chita Rivera and others S-2 True West opening night Playbill, signed by Paul Dano, Ethan Hawk and the company S-3 Jigsaw puzzle completed by Euan Morton backstage at Hamilton during performances, signed by Euan Morton S-4 "So Big/So Small" musical phrase from Dear Evan Hansen , handwritten and signed by Rachel Bay Jones, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul S-5 Mean Girls poster, signed by Erika Henningsen, Taylor Louderman, Ashley Park, Kate Rockwell, Barrett Wilbert Weed and the original company S-6 Williamstown Theatre Festival 1987 season poster, signed by Harry Groener, Christopher Reeve, Ann Reinking and others S-7 Love! Valour! Compassion! poster, signed by Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, John Benjamin Hickey, Nathan Lane, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally and the company S-8 One-of-a-kind The Phantom of the Opera mask from the 30th anniversary celebration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, designed by Christian Roth S-9 The Waverly Gallery Playbill, signed by Joan Allen, Michael Cera, Lucas Hedges, Elaine May and the company S-10 Pretty Woman poster, signed by Samantha Barks, Jason Danieley, Andy Karl, Orfeh and the company S-11 Rug used in the set of Aladdin , 103"x72" (1 of 3) Disney Theatricals requires the winner sign a release at checkout S-12 "Copacabana" musical phrase, handwritten and signed by Barry Manilow 10:30 am - 11 am S-13 2018 Red Bucket Follies poster and DVD, -
ATTACHMENT, SELECTION, and TRANSFORMATION of PREBIOTIC MOLECULES on BRUCITE [Mg(OH)2]
ATTACHMENT, SELECTION, AND TRANSFORMATION OF PREBIOTIC MOLECULES ON BRUCITE [Mg(OH)2] AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AT HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS by Charlene F. Estrada A dissertation submitted to The Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Baltimore, Maryland September, 2014 Charlene F. Estrada All rights reserved Abstract Serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal vents may have been plausible environments for the origins of life. Mineral assemblages within hydrothermal fields may have selected and concentrated biomolecules, although little is known about molecular interactions at these mineral surfaces. I investigated the adsorption of aspartate and ribose at the surface of brucite [Mg(OH)2], a major mineral phase at serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal vents. I characterized the attachment of these molecules onto a synthetic brucite powder with Mg2+ and Ca2+ using batch adsorption experiments. I observed that Mg2+ inhibits both aspartate and ribose adsorption, whereas Ca2+ enhances adsorption onto the brucite surface. I used surface complexation modeling to predict that both aspartate and ribose attach as cooperative calcium-ligand complexes onto brucite. To further investigate the cooperative effect of Ca2+ on biomolecule adsorption, I introduced an equimolar mixture of aspartate, glycine, lysine, leucine, and phenylalanine to the brucite surface, both with and without Ca2+. Without Ca2+, up to 8.9 % aspartate and ~5 % each of the remaining four amino acids adsorbed onto brucite. When Ca2+ was added, I observed that between 5.7 to 20 times more aspartate (37.3 %) adsorbed onto brucite compared with the remaining four amino acids (~3 % each). These results, when combined with the previous study, suggest that aspartate selectively adsorbs onto brucite as a cooperative calcium-aspartate complex. -
Table of Contents
AAS Newsletter September/October 2012, Issue 166 - Published for the Members of the American Astronomical Society Table of Contents 2 President’s Column 17 Committee on the Status of Women in 4 From the Executive Office Astronomy 5 What Makes an Astronomy Story 18 News from NSF Division of Astronomical Newsworthy? Sciences (AST) 6 Journals Update 20 JWST Update 9 Secretary's Corner 21 HAD News 9 Council Actions 21 Honored Elsewhere 10 The AAS Heeds the Call of the Wild 22 Announcements 16 Committee on Employment 23 Calendar of Events 25 Washington News A A S American Astronomical Society AAS Officers President's Column David J. Helfand, President Debra M. Elmegreen, Past President David J. Helfand, [email protected] Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Vice-President Edward B. Churchwell, Vice-President Paula Szkody, Vice-President Hervey (Peter) Stockman, Treasurer G. Fritz Benedict, Secretary Anne P. Cowley, Publications Board Chair Edward E. Prather, Education Officer At 1:32AM Eastern time on 6 Councilors August, the Mars Science Laboratory Bruce Balick Nancy S. Brickhouse and its charmingly named rover, Eileen D. Friel Curiosity, executed a perfect landing Edward F. Guinan Todd J. Henry in Gale Crater. President Obama Steven D. Kawaler called the highly complex landing Patricia Knezek Robert Mathieu procedure “an unprecedented feat of Angela Speck technology that will stand as a point Executive Office Staff of pride far into the future.” While Kevin B. Marvel, Executive Officer we certainly hope Curiosity’s lifetime Tracy Beale, Registrar & Meeting Coordinator Chris Biemesderfer, Director of Publishing on Mars is a long one, we must all Sherri Brown, Membership Services continue to make the case that we Coordinator Kelly E. -
U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics
U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics Managing an Integrated Program Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics National Research Council NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. Prepublication Manuscript NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. This project was supported jointly by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NASW-96013. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. Front Cover TBD International Standard Book Number X-XXX-XXXXX-X Additional copies of this report are available from: National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Lockbox 285, Washington, DC 20055; (800) 624-6242 or (202) 334-3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area); Internet <http://www.nap.edu>; and Space Studies Board, National Research Council, HA 584, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20418; Internet <http://www.national-academies.org/ssb>; and Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Research Council, HA 562, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20418; Internet <http://www.national-academies.org/bpa>. Copyright 2001 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ii Prepublication Manuscript The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. -
Sandra Faber Receives $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize
Media Contact: A. Sarah Hreha +1 (203) 432-6231 [email protected] Online Newsroom: www.gruber.yale.edu/news-media SANDRA FABER RECEIVES $500,000 GRUBER COSMOLOGY PRIZE FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS Sandra Faber May 17, 2017, New Haven, CT – The 2017 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize recognizes Sandra M. Faber for a body of work that has helped establish many of the foundational principles underlying the modern understanding of the universe on the largest scales. The citation praises Faber for “her groundbreaking studies of the structure, dynamics, and evolution of galaxies.” That work has led to the widespread acceptance of the need to study dark matter, to an appreciation of the inextricable relationship between the presence of dark matter and the formation of galaxies, and to the recognition that black holes reside at the heart of most large galaxies. She has also made significant contributions to the innovations in telescope technology that have revolutionized modern astronomy. Through these myriad achievements, the Gruber citation adds, Faber has “aided and inspired the work of astronomers and cosmologists worldwide.” Faber will receive the $500,000 award as well as a gold medal at a ceremony this fall. Less than a hundred years ago, astronomers were still debating whether our Milky Way Galaxy was the entirety of the universe or if other galaxies existed beyond our own. Today astronomers estimate the number of galaxies within the visible universe at somewhere between 200 billion and 2 trillion. For more than four decades Faber—now Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Astronomer Emerita of the University of California Observatories—has served as a pivotal figure in leading and guiding the exploration of this unimaginably vast virgin scientific territory. -
Getting Beyond the Toy Domain. Meditations on David Deamer's
Getting beyond the toy domain: meditations on David Deamer’s “Assembling Life” The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Bains, William, "Getting beyond the toy domain: meditations on David Deamer’s 'Assembling Life.'" Life 10, 12 (Feb. 2020): no. 18 doi 10.3390/life10020018 ©2020 Author(s) As Published 10.3390/life10020018 Publisher MDPI Version Final published version Citable link https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125661 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Detailed Terms https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ life Book Review Getting Beyond the Toy Domain. Meditations on David Deamer’s “Assembling Life” William Bains 1,2 1 Five Alarm Bio Ltd., O2h Scitech Park, Mill Lane, Hauxton, Cambridge CB22 5HX, UK; [email protected] 2 Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Received: 25 October 2019; Accepted: 15 February 2020; Published: 18 February 2020 Abstract: David Deamer has written another book, Assembling Life, on the origin of life. It is unapologetically polemic, presenting Deamer’s view that life originated in fresh water hydrothermal fields on volcanic islands on early Earth, arguing that this provided a unique environment not just for organic chemistry but for the self-assembling structure that drive that chemistry and form the basis of structure in life. It is worth reading, it is an advance in the field, but is it convincing? I argue that the Origin of Life field as a whole is unconvincing, generating results in Toy Domains that cannot be scaled to any real world scenario. -
Entry List Information Provided by Student Online Registration and Does Not Reflect Last Minute Changes
Entry List Entry List Information Provided by Student Online Registration and Does Not Reflect Last Minute Changes Junior Paper Round 1 Building: Hornbake Room: 0108 Time Entry # Affiliate Title Students Teacher School 10:00 am 10001 IA The Partition of India: Conflict or Compromise? Adam Pandian Cindy Bauer Indianola Middle School 10:15 am 10002 AK Mass Panic: The Postwar Comic Book Crisis Claire Wilkerson Adam Johnson Romig Middle School 10:30 am 10003 DC Functions of Reconstructive Justice: A Case of Meyer Leff Amy Trenkle Deal MS Apartheid and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa 10:45 am 10004 NE The Nuremberg Trials to End a Conflict William Funke Roxann Penfield Lourdes Central Catholic School 11:00 am 10005 SC Edwards V. South Carolina: A Case of Conflict and Roshni Nandwani Tamara Pendleton Forestbrook Middle Compromise 11:15 am 10006 VT The Green Mountain Parkway: Conflict and Katie Kelley Susan Guilmette St. Paul's Catholic School Compromise over the Future of Vermont 11:30 am 10007 NH The Battle of Midway: The Turning Point in the Zachary Egan Chris Soule Paul Elementary School Pacific Theatre 11:45 am 10008 HI Gideon v. Wainwright: The Unfulfilled Promise of Amy Denis Kacey Martin Aiea Intermediate School Indigent Defendants' Rights 12:00 pm 10009 PA The Christmas Truce of 1914: Peace Brought by Drew Cohen Marian Gibfried St. Peter's School Soldiers, Not Governments 12:15 pm 10010 MN The Wilderness Act of 1964 Grace Philippon Catie Jacobs Twin Cities German Immersion School Paper Junior Paper Round 1 Building: Hornbake Room: 0125 Time Entry # Affiliate Title Students Teacher School 10:00 am 10011 AS Bloody Mary: A Catholic Who Refused To Liualevaiosina Chloe-Mari Tiana Trepanier Manumalo Academy - Compromise Leiato Elementary 10:15 am 10012 MS The Conflicts and Compromises of Lucy Maud Corgan Elliott Carolyn Spiller Central School Montgomery 10:30 am 10013 MN A Great Compromise: The Sherman Plan Saves the Lucy Phelan Phil Hohl Cyber Village Academy Constitutional Convention of 1787 10:45 am 10014 MI Gerald R. -
NASA Astrobiology Institute 2018 Annual Science Report
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2018 Annual Science Report Table of Contents 2018 at the NAI 1 NAI 2018 Teams 2 2018 Team Reports The Evolution of Prebiotic Chemical Complexity and the Organic Inventory 6 of Protoplanetary Disk and Primordial Planets Lead Institution: NASA Ames Research Center Reliving the Past: Experimental Evolution of Major Transitions 18 Lead Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology Origin and Evolution of Organics and Water in Planetary Systems 34 Lead Institution: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Icy Worlds: Astrobiology at the Water-Rock Interface and Beyond 46 Lead Institution: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Habitability of Hydrocarbon Worlds: Titan and Beyond 60 Lead Institution: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Origins of Molecules in Diverse Space and Planetary Environments 72 and Their Intramolecular Isotope Signatures Lead Institution: Pennsylvania State University ENIGMA: Evolution of Nanomachines in Geospheres and Microbial Ancestors 80 Lead Institution: Rutgers University Changing Planetary Environments and the Fingerprints of Life 88 Lead Institution: SETI Institute Alternative Earths 100 Lead Institution: University of California, Riverside Rock Powered Life 120 Lead Institution: University of Colorado Boulder NASA Astrobiology Institute iii Annual Report 2018 2018 at the NAI In 2018, the NASA Astrobiology Program announced a plan to transition to a new structure of Research Coordination Networks, RCNs, and simultaneously planned the termination of the NASA Astrobiology Institute -
The Future of Space Imaging
The FutureofSpaceImaging The Future of Space Imaging Report of a Community-Based Study of an Advanced Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope hen Lyman Spitzer first proposed a great, W earth-orbiting telescope in , the nuclear energy source of stars had been known for just six years. Knowledge of galaxies beyond our own and the understanding that our universe is expanding were only about twenty years of age in the human consciousness. The planet Pluto was seventeen. Quasars, black holes, gravitational lenses, and detection of the Big Bang were still in the future—together with much of what constitutes our current understanding of the solar system and the cos- mos beyond it. In , forty-seven years after it was conceived in a for- gotten milieu of thought, the Hubble Space Telescope is a reality. Today, the science of the Hubble attests to the forward momentum of astronomical exploration from ancient times. The qualities of motion and drive for knowledge it exemplifies are not fixed in an epoch or a gen- eration: most of the astronomers using Hubble today were not born when the idea of it was first advanced, and many were in the early stages of their education when the glass for its mirror was cast. The commitments we make today to the fu- ture of the Hubble observatory will equip a new generation of young men and women to explore the astronomical frontier at the start of the st century. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FRONT & BACK COVER 1.Globular clusters containing young stars at the core of elliptical galaxy NGC 1275. -
World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) FY 2017 WPI Project Progress Report
World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) FY 2017 WPI Project Progress Report Host Institution Tokyo Institute of Technology Host Institution Head Yoshinao Mishima Research Center Earth-Life Science Institute Center Director Kei Hirose Common instructions: * Unless otherwise specified, prepare this report from the timeline of 31 March 2018. * So as to base this fiscal year’s follow-up review on the “last” center project, please prepare this report from the perspective of the latest project plan. * Use yen (¥) when writing monetary amounts in the report. If an exchange rate is used to calculate the yen amount, give the rate. * Please prepare this report within 10-20 pages (excluding the appendices, and including Summary of State of WPI Center Project Progress (within 2 pages)). Summary of State of WPI Center Project Progress (write within 2 pages) 1. Conducting research of the highest world level In FY2017, ELSI members contributed to the publication of thematic issues in Geoscience Frontiers (titled “Frontiers in early Earth history and primordial life”) and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (titled “Re-conceptualizing the origins of life”), which illustrates ELSI is recognized as a leading institute in the study of the early Earth and the emergence of life on the Earth. New and original ideas, scenarios, theories, and technical advances that have been cultivated at ELSI over the past years were presented, such as messy chemistry. The following are representative research topics and highlights that have advanced at ELSI in FY2017. Compositional evolution of the Earth’s core: PI Hirose, PI Hernlund, and PI Helffrich revealed that SiO2 crystallization in the core is an alternative mechanism for core convection to thermal convection (Hirose et al., 2017 Nature; Hirose et al., 2017 Science).