{"id":505,"date":"2016-04-29T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.towson.edu\/theme-for-faculty\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:48:35","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the LotE Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/LotE_logo_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/LotE_logo_2-300x84.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-695\" style=\"width:625px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/LotE_logo_2-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/LotE_logo_2-768x214.png 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/LotE_logo_2-1024x285.png 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/LotE_logo_2-200x56.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Countdown to Mars: Dr. Amy Williams\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTZIBjv1k4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/WilliamsPhoto-y9e63l-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"WilliamsPhoto\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/WilliamsPhoto-y9e63l-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/WilliamsPhoto-y9e63l-200x234.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/WilliamsPhoto-y9e63l-300x351.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/files\/WilliamsPhoto-y9e63l.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am an Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Florida. My research interests include the formation and preservation of physical and molecular biosignatures in terrestrial environments as an analog for putative biosignature formation on Mars. I have been a member of the NASA <em>Curiosity<\/em> rover science team since 2009, and I currently work with the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument team to explore the distribution of organic molecules on Mars\u2019 surface. I also work with the NASA <em>Perseverance<\/em> rover science team. I have received several NASA group achievement awards for my work with the <em>Curiosity<\/em> rover team, received a nomination for the 2017 Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award, and was a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My research focuses on the interaction between microbial life, the geochemical environment, and the rock record on Earth, and how to recognize habitable environments and potentially preserved microbial life on Mars and the outer world moons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<strong>Amy Williams<\/strong>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">amywilliams1 &#8216;at&#8217; ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">352.273.1284<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Department of Geological Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">270 Williamson Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1843 Stadium Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/amywilliams1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}