The off-planet idea called bioARK is designed to create a self-sustaining lunar settlement using algae. The proposal received honorable mention from the Aurelia Institute Prize in Design for Space Urbanism. “Moving beyond the cradle will require an all-of-life effort: humans cannot leave Earth without life-sustaining microbial biomes,” according to the submission by Lynn Rothschild, a NASA Ames Research Center scientist, James Head III, a Brown University research professor, and Christopher Maurer, an architect at redhouse studio architecture.

Student researcher Emma Blankstein recently joined the Possibility Team to talk about "Breathe Providence", a research team at Brown that tracks air quality in Providence neighborhoods by asking neighbors to track what they smell in an effort to better understand air pollution in Rhode Island.

A recent study lead by former DEEPS Postdoc Eva Golos found small amounts of partially melted rock at the lower boundary of the lithosphere in the Southwestern United States. “Understanding these processes will help scientists figure out where geologic hazards are high, and where to focus on hazard mitigation,” Golos told The Brown Daily Herald.