2024 – 2025

EAI ACADEMY es un programa educativo internacional organizado y difundido por el Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Madrid, con el apoyo del Instituto Europeo de Astrobiología (EAI). Proporciona un marco para reunirse en línea con la comunidad astrobiológica internacional y adquirir conocimientos interdisciplinarios a través de una serie de seminarios impartidos por expertos en estos campos. La audiencia de la Academia se conecta desde más de 32 países y todos los continentes, con una participación media de 70 asistentes por seminario. Las ediciones anteriores son accesibles a través del canal de youtube del CAB (link a 2021-2022, link a 2022-2023, link a 2023-2024).

El programa de la Academia EAI para el curso académico 2024-2025 comenzará este mes de octubre. Los seminarios se ofrecen de forma gratuita y se retransmiten online vía zoom cada dos semanas los miércoles de 15:00 a 16:00 horas CET (hora de Madrid). Las charlas serán impartidas por expertos de renombre mundial, que responderán a las preguntas planteadas por el público tras su intervención. Todos los seminarios serán grabados para su posterior disponibilidad en el canal de youtube del CAB.

Al final del curso académico, el CAB otorga un certificado de participación a quienes asistan a un mínimo de 10 seminarios. Para que podamos llevar un registro de la asistencia, deberá introducir su nombre y afiliación en el chat del seminario al entrar en la sala (Zoom).

Si formó parte del programa en años anteriores su correo electrónico ya está en la lista de distribución y NO NECESITA SUSCRIBIRSE de nuevo. Si desea registrarse en la lista de distribución de EAI Academy, incluya su información aquí.

Enlace al nuevo formulario 
Este formulario de registro se cerrará en octubre.

Próximamente publicaremos aquí una actualización de la lista de oradores y charlas.

LIST OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

Sara Seager

2 de Octubre 2024

Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet

For thousands of years, inspired by the star-filled dark night sky, people have wondered what lies beyond Earth. Today, the search for signs of life is a key motivator in modern-day planetary exploration. Scientists have been speculating on Venus as a habitable world for over half a century, not the scorching surface, but the much cooler atmosphere at 48 to 60 km above the surface. The concept is that Venus’ perpetual cloud cover might host life, as Earth’s clouds do. Many different decades-old Venusian atmosphere anomalies support this concept. The Venus clouds, however, are not made of water but are composed of concentrated sulfuric acid—an aggressive chemical that is toxic for Earth life. New lab-based experiments on the stability of nucleic acid bases, amino acids, and dipeptides in concentrated sulfuric acid advance the notion that the Venus atmosphere environment may be able to support complex chemicals needed for life and motivate the astrobiology-focused Morning Star Missions to Venus.

Victoria Muñoz Iglesias

16 de Octubre 2024

Aqueous chemistry in ocean worlds

Ocean worlds are those planetary bodies that contain or have contained for a long period of time significant amounts of liquid water, either at the surface and/or in the subsurface. In our solar system, besides the Earth, both Ceres and the main icy moons of the outer solar system (OSS) show evidence of fulfilling or having fulfilled this condition. The maintenance of an ocean requires a constant energetic input over time to prevent solidification to ice. In those bodies with a predominantly rocky layer, such as the Earth and to a lesser extent Ceres, this input comes from radioactive decay, in addition to the primordial heat after its formation. However, in the icy moons of the OSS, farther from the Sun, this input comes from the strong tidal forces produced during their orbit around their larger parent planets, i.e., the gas or icy giants. This energetic input also favors other substances (such as gases, salts, and silicates), to be released from the more rocky layers (usually located below the hydrospheres or partially intermixed) and interact with the water molecules. In this talk my intention is to show the aqueous chemistry, and the geological implications, that can take place on the ocean worlds of the OSS. I will show how water chemistry evolves from the interior to the surface due to pressure and temperature changes. The evolution of cryomagmas, according to their initial composition and depending on what they encounter on their way, will give rise to various chemical reactions and precipitation of different minerals. Moreover, when they reach the surface, the radical environmental change causes the cryomagmas to continue to modify themselves chemically and physically. Experimental study and geochemical and geophysical modeling of the various processes that cryomagmas can follow from the interior to the surface serve to infer the interior composition from data taken at the surface during space missions to these planetary bodies.