Shannon Rupert is an ecologist with a decade of experience
in Mars Analog studies. She founded and coordinates the Mars Society’s
Remote Science Team and has been on crews as both biologist and commander
at MDRS, FMARS and MARS-OZ. She was Science Lead for the NASA Mobile
Agents Project and currently is a scientist/educator with NASA’s
Spaceward Bound Program. Shannon teaches biology at Dine’ College
on the Navajo Nation and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biology at the University
of New Mexico, where she is studying the ecology of acequias (community
irrigation systems) in Northern New Mexico. She holds a M.S. in Biological
Sciences (Plant Ecology) from California State University, San Marcos;
a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from the University of
California, San Diego; and an A.S. in Biology from San Diego Miramar
College. This will be her second Spaceward Bound Australia expedition.
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