| Peter is a professor of geology at the
University of Washington and a member of the Astrobiology program. He is a
paleontologist by trade, he has does extensive studies on ammonites and
global mass extinctions. He has authored a variety of books
including:
In Search of Nautilus : Three Centuries of Scientific Adventures
in the Deep Pacific to Capture a Prehistoric-Living-Fossil
The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age
Mammals Disappeared
On Methuselah's Trail : Living Fossils and the
Great Extinctions
Time Machines : Scientific Explorations in
Deep Time
End of Evolution; A Journey in Search of Clues
to the Third Mass Extinction Facing Planet Earth
Don is a professor of astronomy at the
University of Washington and also a member of the Astrobiology program. He
specializes in the study of extraterrestrial samples, comets and the early
solar system. He is the principal investigator of the NASA Stardust mission that will
collect comet samples and return them to Earth. |
