Penelope Boston

Penelope Boston
Boston lecturing on Astrobiology
Alma materUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Cave and Karst Research Institute
NASA Astrobiology Institute
Thesis (1985)
Websitewww.ees.nmt.edu/pboston/

Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist and astrobiologist. She was associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute[1] in Carlsbad, New Mexico, along with founding and directing 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.[2]

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.[3][4][5] She was the last director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute before the Institute was suspended.[6]

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