@davidccatling.bsky.social
Professor, Planetary Sciences, Astrobiology, Origin of Life
https://faculty.washington.edu/dcatling/people.html
https://faculty.washington.edu/dcatling/people.html
my book, “Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction” is now published in Chinese and available to 1.2B people for whom Chinese is a 1st or 2nd language (1st Ed with updates, Yilin Press, Nanjing). Coming soon: 2nd Ed. (OUP) in English in 2026/7, with updates on planetary science, origin of life, etc.
April 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
my book, “Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction” is now published in Chinese and available to 1.2B people for whom Chinese is a 1st or 2nd language (1st Ed with updates, Yilin Press, Nanjing). Coming soon: 2nd Ed. (OUP) in English in 2026/7, with updates on planetary science, origin of life, etc.
My group's most recent paper: We quantified phosphorus fluxes in soda lakes, showing that without biology, soda lakes worldwide would have phosphate levels suitable for prebiotic synthesis of RNA. This answers a 70-year-old “phosphate problem of the origin of life”
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
February 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
My group's most recent paper: We quantified phosphorus fluxes in soda lakes, showing that without biology, soda lakes worldwide would have phosphate levels suitable for prebiotic synthesis of RNA. This answers a 70-year-old “phosphate problem of the origin of life”
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...