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David C. Catling
Professor, University of Washington Seattle
David Catling is a professor at the Univ. of Washington (UW), who researches the origin of life, planetary habitability, and how life and environments co-evolve.
After a doctorate in atmospheric, oceanic and planetary physics at the Univ. of Oxford, he worked at NASA Ames Research Center from 1995. In 2001, he joined UW.
Beyond scholarly papers, books include ‘Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction’ for laypeople and ‘Atmospheric Evolution on Inhabited and Lifeless Worlds’ for researchers.
Professional Experience
University of Washington Seattle
Professor
2001 - Present
Education
University of Oxford
Doctorate
1994
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
Citation
For creative insights into coupling between Earth’s biota and its atmosphere over timescales of billions of years
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Publications
Questioning the Reliability of Methane Detections on Mars by the Curiosity Rover
Over the past decade, the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) on NASA's Curiosity rover has reported several detections of methane on Mars, attracting...
April 13, 2025
Global Model of Atmospheric Chlorate on Earth
March 03, 2025
Probable Concretions Observed in the Shenandoah Formation of...
August 19, 2024
Astrobiological Potential of Rocks Acquired by the Persevera...
August 14, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Excluding Waterworld O2 Biosignature False Positives via Land Detection with HWO
PLANETARY SCIENCE AND ASTROBIOLOGY WITH THE HABITABLE WORLDS OBSERVATORY II ORAL
planetary sciences | 13 december 2024
Anna Grace Ulses, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Tyler ...
Biosignature searches with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will require an understanding of how biosignature false positives that is non-biolo...
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Supercooling, Equilibrium and Kinetic Products of Enceladus-relevant Salt Solutions
ENCELADUS: FROM INNER WORKINGS TO THE POTENTIAL FOR LIFE II POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Fabian Klenner, Ardith Bravenec, Lucas Fifer, Bapt...
There are multiple lines of evidence for the existence of crystalline as well as glassy water ice on Saturns moon Enceladus, from both spacecraft obse...
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Oxidation in ~1.4 Ga Iron-type fossil micrometeorites as a probe of coeval atmospheric composition
EVOLUTION OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES: NOVEL TECHNIQUES AND NEW CONSTRAINTS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EARTH AND BEYOND POSTER
planetary sciences | 12 december 2023
Danqiu Chen, Roger Buick, Donald E. Brownlee, Jade...
Micrometeorites are relatively abundant on Earth because of continuous accumulation. During atmospheric entry at hypervelocity, micrometeorites can me...
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