{"631405":{"#nid":"631405","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Nearly barren Icelandic landscapes guide search for extraterrestrial life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew research on microbial lifeforms living in nearly barren volcanic landscapes in Iceland may help scientists understand how best to search for life on other planets.\u0026ldquo;What [FELDSPAR researchers] have been working on is trying to figure out how many samples we need to get in order to probabilistically sample that one region that has that biological hotspot,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/stockton\/amanda\u0022\u003EAmanda Stockton\u003C\/a\u003E, a biochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology and co-principal investigator of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20170003907\u0022\u003EFELDSPAR\u003C\/a\u003E project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-01-21 19:31:01","changed_gmt":"2020-01-21 19:31:01","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"autonomous trucking","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/geospace\/2020\/01\/15\/nearly-barren-icelandic-landscapes-guide-search-for-extraterrestrial-life\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}