Women in Planetary Science are doing amazing work essential to expanding our understanding of planets from Mercury to Pluto, and with extrasolar planets beyond. At the 2010 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, women from this site set a goal of conducting original interviews with 51 women in planetary science, one for each week of the year before the next LPSC, and posting excerpts here for all to see. We have since reached and exceeded this goal, and we would like to keep going! The more profiles we have, the more likely we are to speak to and inspire the huge diversity of future women in planetary science who are out there.

This page is updated regularly, so come back soon for even more inspiration!

51+ Women in Planetary Science (original interviews for this blog)

If you would like to volunteer to be interviewed, or to conduct an interview, please contact Kelsi Singer, knsinger at levee (dot) wustl (dot) edu.

More Women in Planetary Science (External Links)

We also celebrate our engineering colleagues Donna Shirley, project manager on Mars Pathfinder and Mary Chiu from CONTOUR Project Manager. Know of more profiles of outstanding planetary science women? Leave a comment or email the site and we’ll be happy to link them here!

Other great interview collections:

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Are you looking to introduce female planetary scientists to your students? Consider inviting them to speak at departmental colloquia or special events. Both the American Physical Society (APS) and the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) offer Speakers Bureaus that highlight women and minority speakers available for colloquia, seminars, or special events — and they even provide travel grants. A great suggestion from planetary scientists attending the annual LPSC Women’s Networking Breakfast has been to invite women speakers to speak at department events and a lunch for women graduate students, postdocs, and other interested women, to provide additional support and role models for younger women in the field.