Dr. David Toomey is author of _Weird Life: The Search for Life That is Very Very Different from Our Own_. Professor Toomey explains how scientists have had to revise the concept of life since the discovery of organisms in very extreme environments on our planet, and how that discovery is shaping astrobiology—the search for life on moons and exoplanets.
David Toomey is a professor of English at UMass-Amherst and co-director of the English Department’s Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program. In addition to his scholarly work, he has written on is a broad range of topics for the general public.