Annual Meeting

The Effect of Meteor Impacts on the Hydrology of the Martian Crust

Our April speaker is Cecilia Sanders. She is a senior in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Cecilia is interested in the origins of life in the universe and the ways in which the processes of planet formation have influenced the trajectory of life. Cecilia's research is supported by the Origins of Life Initiative, a collaboration of departments at Harvard. She will discuss her research and planetary geological processes. While an undergrad, Cecilia has done research on the effect of meteor impacts on the hydrothermal processes in the Martian crust and investigated biomarker gases in exoplanet atmospheres. She has done research for JPL, Goddard Space Flight Center and Harvard.

Joining Cecilia will be Amanda Preston, the executive director of the Origins of Life Initiative. She will give us a brief overview of the research conducted by the initiative.