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Item Editor's Note(College of Natural and Health Sciences, The University of Tampa, 2015) Ethan DeneaultItem Editor's Note(College of Natural and Health Sciences, The University of Tampa, 2016) Ethan DeneaultItem Editor's Note(College of Natural and Health Sciences, The University of Tampa, 2017) Ethan Deneault; CNHSItem The Search for a Model Organism for Panspermia: Examining the Effects of Vacuum and Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure on Differently Encysted Artemia Embryos(College of Natural and Health Sciences, The University of Tampa, 2015) Corinne Speight; Ethan DeneaultPanspermia, or the idea that sources of life are distributed throughout the Universe via transportational units such as meteoroids, has become a tantalizing possibility throughout the realm of astrobiology. In this experiment, Artemia franciscana (brine shrimp a.k.a. Sea Monkey) embryos under different encystment states (dehydrated, hydrated-capsulated, and hydrated-decapsulated) were exposed to extreme vacuum and ultraviolet radiation conditions similar to those found in space in order to determine whether or not they could be a prototypical organism for this theory. Quantitative analyses were done by calculating Artemia hatch rates for umbrella, naupliar, and both umbrella & naupliar stages following treatments. Although hatch rates varied, exposure to these extreme space-like conditions did not completely impede the viability of the encysted Artemia studied. This suggests that encysted Artemia franciscana may be a model organism supporting the theory of panspermia, although the effects of encystment state during exposure to other space-like conditions besides extreme vacuum and UV radiation warrants further investigation.Item Utilization of Amateur Astronomy for Photometric Data(Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics, University of Tampa, 2022-12) Argentieri, Nick; Ethan DeneaultThis project is an assessment of the effectiveness an 8 inch telescope and a mirrorless camera to obtain photometric data and the plausibility of using the equipment available to physics students at the University of Tampa for measuring variable star and transiting exoplanet light curves. Although the initial goals of this project were not realized, we were able to use the telescope for astrophotography.