I am a marine biologist from Argentina. Some of our activities, particularly when dealing with deep sea research, are akin to the field of astrobiology. Therefore, I want to participate in this project and learn something by doing it.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.