Member Since 1995
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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Stratospheric Gas‐Phase Production Alone Cannot Explain Observations of Atmospheric Perchlorate on E...
Perchlorate has been observed in many environments on Earth and Mars but its sources remain poorly quantified. In this study, we use a global three...
May 03, 2023
High Organic Burial Efficiency Is Required to Explain Mass B...
February 22, 2021
Probable Cold and Alkaline Surface Environment of the Hadean...
January 05, 2020
Quantitative High-Resolution Reexamination of a Hypothesized...
February 07, 2019
AGU Abstracts
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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A new, climatic hypothesis for evolutionary stasis in the “boring billion”: Animals don’t like it hot
EVOLUTION OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES: NOVEL TECHNIQUES AND NEW CONSTRAINTS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EARTH AND BEYOND POSTER
planetary sciences | 12 december 2023
David C. Catling, Nicholas Wogan, Kevin J. Zahnle
The interval ~1.8-0.8 Ga is called the boring billion (BB) because of relative stasis in geochemical signatures and a distinction from subsequent dram...
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