Bethany Ehlmann is a planetary scientist specializing in the surface processes and geochemical evolution of terrestrial planets. She is Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Provost’s Chair, and a faculty member in the departments of Geological Sciences and Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she was a Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a Research Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she also served as Associate Director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies. Her research focuses on planetary surface processes, infrared spectroscopy, the evolution of Mars, chemical weathering, hydrothermal systems, and the development of instrumentation for planetary exploration. Ehlmann has played key roles in numerous NASA missions, including as a collaborator on the Mars Exploration Rover missions Spirit and Opportunity, and as a co-investigator on multiple instruments for Mars missions, including Mars Science Laboratory and Mars 2020. She has also contributed to the exploration of the dwarf planet Ceres through the Dawn mission. She is a recipient of numerous honors, including the American Geophysical Union’s Macelwane Medal, the Urey Medal of the American Astronomical Society’s Planetary Sciences Division, and the Zeldovich Medal from COSPAR, among others. Ehlmann earned her Ph.D. and master’s degrees in geological sciences from Brown University, and holds additional master’s degrees from University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
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