Please add additional information to the "Awards and honors" section
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Professor Girguis was inducted in the American Academy of Microbiology in 2023.
SOURCE: https://asm.org/press-releases/2023/february/65-fellows-elected-into-the-american-academy-of-mi
Professor Girguis was awarded the Marine Technology Society's "Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration"
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Please add additional information to "Public engagement" section
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In 2023, Girguis was featured in the PBS NOVA Series on "Ancient Earth" (episodes 11 and 12). In 2025, he was featured on the PBS "Particles of Thought" podcast with Hakeem Oluseyi, where they discussed life in Earth's most extreme environments and the possibility of life on Mars and elsewhere.
SOURCES for PBS NOVA "Ancient Earth"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29295126/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_epp_sm_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29295127/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_epp_sm_2
SOURCES for "Particles of Thought" episode: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/interview-extremophiles-the-deep-sea-and-alien-life-with-peter-girguis/ Pgirguis (talk) 17:04, 10 June 2026 (UTC)