The Duhamel Lab investigates the possibility of life on other worlds using planet analogs on Earth.
February 2020: Solange has been selected as a Scialog Fellow to participate in the 2020 Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe initiative, jointly sponsored by RCSA and the Heising-Simons Foundation, with additional support from the Kavli Foundation.
January 2018: Solange gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life https://www.grc.org/origins-of-life-conference/2018/
Field sampling in Iceland - Summer 2016: Characterization of an ephemeral hydrothermal system following the Holuhraun eruption.
From left to right: Solange Duhamel and Kristina Lincoln sampling Vití crater, Iceland
Map of Iceland (Google Map). Our study area is within the yellow rectangle. An additional site was sampled: the Vití crater hot spring (arrow).
Publications related to this project:
Duhamel S., Hamilton C.W., Pálsson S., and S. Björnsdóttir. 2022. Microbial response to increased temperatures within a lava-induced hydrothermal system in Iceland as an analog for Mars. Astrobiology. Astrobiology, 22 (10), 1176–1198. doi.org/10.1089/ast.2021.0124.
Bonnefoy L.E., Hamilton C.W., Scheidt S.P., Duhamel S., Hoskuldsson Á., Jonsdottir I., Thordarson T., and U. Münzer. Landscape evolution associated with the 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption in Iceland. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. In press. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.07.019
For the general public:
Duhamel S., and C.W. Hamilton. 2021. How microbes in Iceland can teach us about possible life on Mars? Futurum Careers. Issue 7, pp 22–25. doi: 10.33424/FUTURUM112. ISSN 2632-8380