{"667980":{"#nid":"667980","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Space salads and salty waters","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.planetary.org\u0022\u003EThe Planetary Society\u003C\/a\u003E has announced the second round of winners of its Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) grant program, in which society members and donors have crowdfunded\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/sci-tech\u0022\u003Escience and technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;projects that advance space science and exploration. A winner of a 2023 STEP grant is a team led by Dartmouth College, which was awarded for their project to study small, extremely salty lakes in British Columbia, Canada, that may be analogous to ancient Mars as well as some of the Solar System\u2019s ocean moons, places of key interest in the search for life. A member of that research team is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/hughes-emily\u0022\u003EEmily Hughes\u003C\/a\u003E, a graduate student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.planetary.org\u0022\u003EThe Planetary Society\u003C\/a\u003E has announced the second round of winners of its Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) grant program, in which society members and donors have crowdfunded\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/sci-tech\u0022\u003Escience and technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;projects that advance space science and exploration. A winner of a 2023 STEP grant is a team led by Dartmouth College, which was awarded for their project to study small, extremely salty lakes in British Columbia, Canada, that may be analogous to ancient Mars as well as some of the Solar System\u2019s ocean moons, places of key interest in the search for life. A member of that research team is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/hughes-emily\u0022\u003EEmily Hughes\u003C\/a\u003E, a graduate student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-06-05 14:33:29","changed_gmt":"2023-06-05 14:33:29","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Planetary Society ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/articles\/step-grant-winners-2023","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"192718","name":"Emily Hughes"},{"id":"5937","name":"The Planetary Society"},{"id":"168010","name":"space science"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}