I was part of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute when it was first formed back in the late 1990s – we were trying to figure out how life forms out in space.
We had biologists, astronomers and geologists all coming together to talk to each other. But we didn’t know each other’s languages. It’s been really interesting over the last 20 years to see how we’ve grown together. We still aren’t totally fluent in each other’s languages – but it makes such a difference when you get to that interdisciplinary place. This kind of collaboration is so important.
My specialty is astrogeology, but I came to
