Staff in the media

Ian Crawford

• Project Icarus: Exploring Exoplanet Biosignatures: Guest contributor Ian Crawford examines why the hunt for extraterrestrial life would be prioritized during an interstellar mission. (Discovery News, Oct 24, 2011)
• The journey of 100 years begins with a single weekend: Ian Crawford cited (Orlando Bulletin, 12 October 2011)
• Astronauts as Alien Life Hunters? (Discovery News, October 10, 2011)
• Astronomers Debate Where 1st Interstellar Starship Should Go Exploring (Space.com, October 4, 2011)
• International space station at 10: Ian Crawford quoted by the BBC. (20 November 2008)
• Aber scientist helps Moon mission: Ian Crawford quoted by the BBC in an article on how the Chandrayaan-1 craft will survey the moon's surface (16 October 2008)
• Ancient rocks 'built by microbes': Ian Crawford quoted by the BBC in an article explaining how odd-shaped rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia offer compelling evidence they were built by microbes 3.43 billion years ago. (7 June 2006)

Lewis Dartnell

• Arsenic, bacteria and alien life: Lessons from an internet frenzy: Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell explains the implications of the discovery of bacteria that can use arsenic instead of phosphorus, and argues that Nasa should have acted swiftly to quash speculation about the discovery of alien life. (3 December 2010)

Pieter Vermeesch

• Cosmic rays reveal history of ancient desert, Birkbeck news story: 9 December 2010
• Namib Desert sand is at least a million years old, National Environmental Research Council's Planet Earth (12 November 2010)