About Penelope Boston
Penelope Boston was an American speleologist, geologist and astrobiologist.
Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist and astrobiologist. She was associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute
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.
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