Rebecca Guth (center) with the her group for the Proposal Writing Retreat (PWR) before the Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon). The proposal they wrote, entitled “UV radiation: a double-edged sword in prebiotic chemistry,” was chosen in the top three out of nine. On the left is Namy Ganbaatar who has a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology completed under Masahiko Hara and on the right is Claudia Bonfio who is a PhD student from the University of Trento advised by Sheref Mansy. In the background is the 100 meter dish radio telescope at Green Bank Observatory. It is the largest fully steerable object on land!
(Photo and writing credit: Rebecca Guth)