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Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist. She is associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute〔 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and founder and director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. Among her research interests are geomicrobiology of caves and mines, extraterrestrial speleogenesis, and space exploration and astrobiology generally.〔 In the mid-1980s, Boston (then a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder) was one of the founders of the Mars Underground and helped organize a series of conferences called The Case for Mars.〔〔〔 ==Biography== She has a B.S. in microbiology, geology, and psychology, and a M.S. in microbiology and atmospheric chemistry. She completed her Ph.D. from University of Colorado Boulder in 1985. During 2002-2004, she was Principal Investigator on the Caves of Mars Project, which, among other things, studied the effects on mice of an atmosphere rich in argon, and "flat crops" that might be grown in Martian caves.〔〔 She developed the concept of small jumping robots for Mars exploration.〔〔 She gave a TEDtalk about the likelihood of life on Mars in 2006.〔 Her interest in extremophiles (organisms which prefer or thrive in the extremes of altitude, cold, darkness, dryness, heat, mineralized environments, pressure, radiation, vacuum, variability, or weightlessness) which may be found in caves and karst on Earth, and should be looked for in equivalents of other objects in space from asteroids to planets, is a frequent subject of her published papers and at least one of her books. An only child of theatrical parents, she writes poetry reflective of her world travel and uncommon specialty.〔 She continues to work with NASA on the Atacama Field Expedition.〔 In 2010 she was featured in Symphony of Science.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penelope Boston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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