Dr. Amanda Rudolph is a Postdoctoral Research Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a part of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) group. She received her Associate of Science Degree at Seattle Central Community College in 2016, her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in 2018, and her PhD in Planetary Science in August 2023. She has been a part of the Curiosity rover operations team since 2018 that has been exploring in Gale crater, Mars. Amanda’s research focuses on the interactions of water and rocks and the signature that these interactions leave behind in the sedimentary rock record from the surface of Mars, orbiting around Mars, and from Mars analog field work here on Earth using both remote sensing and laboratory techniques.
