Director of UC Riverside's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center and Principal Investigator of the UCR-led Alternative Earths Team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Tim Lyons, will continue the 2016-2017 'Are We Alone?' Lecture Series this Thursday, January 12. Lyons will explain the overarching motivation behind Alternative Earths and current research being done by the team. The talk will be followed by a telescope viewing event.