Bethany Ehlmann (Missouri & Hertford 2004) is selected as a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer

"Bethany Ehlmann is a participating scientist on the NASA Mars Rover Curiosity mission, a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech. She explores our solar system, seeking to understand its history over billions of years of geologic time and searching for habitable environments for life.

At 9:45 each Mars morning, a car-size rover loaded with scientific instruments wakes up, looks toward Earth, and asks, “What do I do today?” Bethany Ehlmann is one of the scientists who answers that question. As a geologist on the NASA Mars Rover Curiosity mission, she helps direct the rover and analyzes the minerals and geochemistry of Martian rocks for clues about the planet’s environment over billions of years." Read more at National Geographic.