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Life in Space: Astrobiology for Nonscientists

English

By (author): Amri Wandel Joseph Gale

Over the last two decades alone, new technology and space missions have profoundly changed our understanding of prospective extraterrestrial life in the universe. The resulting field of astrobiology has become a highly eclectic and interdisciplinary pursuit, encompassing many of the natural sciences and holding ramifications for nearly all other areas of study. Co-written by an astrophysicist and a biologist, this introductory undergraduate textbook presents an overview of astrobiology for students from all backgrounds. Addressed in its chapters are the recent detection of potentially habitable planets and the prospects for detecting biosignatures and life; the celestial and geological factors that enabled the appearance and evolution of life on Earth; and other factors that continue to affect life up to the present, such as climate change. Based on over twenty years of university coursework, and in particular the authors own interdisciplinary astrobiology curriculum, the text is accessible not just for the budding science major, but for any undergraduate student or lay reader excited by the prospect of life in the universe.

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  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783031646386

About Amri WandelJoseph Gale

Dr. Amri Wandel has created and is teaching the course Astrophysics and Life in the Universe with over hundred students annually to science and non-science undergraduate programs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a few times at the Astronomy program at UCLA. He frequently gives public talks and media interviews on astrobiology. His main research has been on active galaxies and massive black holes and in the last years works also in astrobiology in particular on habitability of exoplanets. Wandel has published over 100 scientific papers over 40 in refereed journals (mainly ApJ). He coauthored the book The Cosmos and Us (in Esperanto FEL 20012005 2017 2022). He is Chairman of the Israel society for Astrobiology and the Origin of Life (ILASOL) and member of the International Astronomical Union and its astrobiology commission F3.   Dr. Joseph Gale carried out research and served for some years as consultant to NASA's CELSS project(Controlled Environment Life Support Systems). From there he became interested in the exobiology program later astrobiology. Gale has built and taught a program on The Astrobiology of Planet Earth an elective for third year science students which over the last decade attracts some one hundred students each year. He has lectured at numerous national and international conferences. In last two years he was invited to participate in astrobiology seminars of the University of Stockholm and the International Space University. Gale has published some 100+ papers and coauthored four books including Plants in Saline Environments (Springer-Verlag 1975) and Astrobiology of Earth (OUP 2009). 

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