{"id":73286,"date":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/renowned-earth-scientist-robert-hazen-to-speak-oct-3-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","slug":"renowned-earth-scientist-robert-hazen-to-speak-oct-3-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/renowned-earth-scientist-robert-hazen-to-speak-oct-3-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Earth scientist Robert Hazen to speak Oct. 3 at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.- September 22, 2017- Earth scientist, mineralogist, and astrobiologist Robert Hazen will deliver a lecture titled \u201cGenesis: The Scientific Quest for Life\u2019s Origins<\/em>\u201d on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road, as part of this year\u2019s Honors Colloquium at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n

Hazen, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington\u2019s Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, researches what role minerals play in terms of life\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n

Titled, \u201cOrigins: Life, the Universe and Everything,\u201d this fall\u2019s colloquium addresses such questions as \u201cWhere did we come from? How did the universe begin? How did intelligent, rational beings arise? And from such humble beginnings, how did we develop a mind that can ask these big questions? Now in its 54th year, the colloquium is the University\u2019s premier public lecture series, offers lectures on most Tuesday evenings through Dec. 5. Hazen\u2019s lecture will be shown on the web at stream.uri.edu<\/p>\n

The primary focus of Hazen\u2019s research involves different aspects of the coevolving geosphere and biosphere, especially as it pertains to Earth\u2019s ever changing mineralogy. Beyond that, he looks at the close relationship between crystal structure and physical properties. Through the development of different high-pressure and high-temperature techniques, paired with the study of a wide variety of materials, Hazen and his team have been able to isolate and identify new superconductor structure types.<\/p>\n

溏心vlog免费B站 Associate Professor of Geosciences in the College of Environment and Life Sciences, Dawn Cardace is looking forward to Hazen\u2019s lecture. \u201cI am keenly interested in the relationship between Earth\u2019s geology and biology, through Earth\u2019s 4.6-billion-year-long history as a planet and across its diverse planetary surface and near subsurface,\u201d Cardace said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverywhere we look, in caves, in sediments and rocks deep beneath the seafloor, in acidic, hotter-than-boiling springs, in ultrabasic groundwaters (pH of 12 and higher–as caustic as ammonia!), in bone dry, salt-encrusted basins, in high-elevation, irradiated plateaus–we find resilient, successful microbial life. How do Earth environments impact the evolution of our enormous microbial biosphere? How do modern microbes living at environmental extremes provide windows into the ways life on the early Earth evolved, or indeed, began? How do Earth\u2019s minerals record evidence of Earth\u2019s ancient biosphere, of its metabolic machinery? Attending Dr. Hazen\u2019s talk will help us gain traction on these enormous, thought-provoking questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olivia Ross, an intern in the Marketing and Communications Department at 溏心vlog免费B站 and public relations major, wrote this press release.<\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I.- September 22, 2017- Earth scientist, mineralogist, and astrobiologist Robert Hazen will deliver a lecture titled \u201cGenesis: The Scientific Quest for Life\u2019s Origins\u201d on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road, as part of this year\u2019s Honors Colloquium at the 溏心vlog免费B站. Hazen, a research scientist at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}