DR. BETHANY EHLMANN is a 2013 National Geographic Emerging
Explorer, a participating scientist on the NASA Mars Rover
Curiosity mission, a research scientist at JPL, and an assistant
professor of planetary science at CalTech.
She has studied compositional analysis of planetary surfaces,
environmental change on Mars, chemical and physical weathering
processes on planets, habitability, rock-microbe interactions,
early Earth surface environments, and space policy. Ehlmann has a
Ph.D. and M.S. in Geological Sciences from Brown University, an
M.S. in both Geography and Environmental Change and Management from
the University of Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and a
B.A. in both Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Studies
from Washington University in St. Louis. Before obtaining her
current position at Caltech/JPL, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at
the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Paris.
Jennifer Swanson is an award-winning author and science superfan.
Her books for children and young adults have been selected for the
National Science Teachers Association's Best STEM Books and
recommended reviews from School Librarians Workshop, Library Media
Connection, and School Library Journal, among others.
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