Biography:Sarah Stewart Johnson
Sarah Stewart Johnson | |
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| Born | Kentucky |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis Oxford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Georgetown University Harvard University |
| Thesis | Mars in the late Noachian : evolution of a habitable surface environment (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maria Zuber |
Sarah Stewart Johnson is an American biologist, geochemist, astronomer and planetary scientist. She joined Georgetown University in 2014[1] and is currently the Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Biology and the Science, Technology, and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service.[2]
Early life and education
Johnson was born in Kentucky and grew up in Lexington.[3] She received her bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Arthur Holly Compton Fellow and majored in math and environmental studies. During college, she won a Goldwater Scholarship and a Truman Scholarship.[3][4][5] Johnson then attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees.[6][1] In 2008, she completed a PhD in planetary science at MIT.[7]
Career
Johnson was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University from 2008-2009 and 2011-2013.[8] She was a White House Fellow working for the President’s Science Advisor, under the Obama administration from 2009-2011.[9] Johnson became a faculty member at Georgetown in 2014. Her work involves the use of analog environments to study the habitability of the surface and subsurface of Mars and icy moons.[10][9] Her lab at Georgetown is currently focused on the detection of agnostic biosignatures, sometimes referred to as "life as we don't know it".[11][12] She is a visiting scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with the Planetary Environments lab.[13] She participated in the Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit missions.[6][3]
Bibliography
- The Sirens of Mars
Honors
- Desert Writers Award (2013)[14]
- White House Fellow (2009)
- Harvard Junior Fellow (2008)
- Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship, MIT (2008)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship[1]
- Rhodes Scholarship (2001)
- Truman Scholarship (2000)
- Goldwater Scholarship (1999)
- Arthur Holly Compton Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis (1997)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Climate CoLab" (in en). https://www.climatecolab.org/members/profile/2350442.
- ↑ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TIFDAA4/sarah-johnson.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Overbye, Dennis (27 July 2020). "Coming of Age on Mars". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/science/mars-sarah-stewart-johnson.html. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ↑ "American Rhodes Scholars 2001". https://www.americanrhodes.org/assets/attachments/Scholars-Elect_2001_(TARS).pdf.
- ↑ "Searching for life in the cosmos | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis" (in en-US). 2021-08-05. https://source.wustl.edu/2021/08/searching-for-life-in-the-cosmos/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lacey, Hester (17 July 2020). "Sarah Stewart Johnson: 'I am driven to try to answer the big questions — are we alone in the universe?'". www.ft.com (Financial Times). https://www.ft.com/content/b74b5ab9-9e5d-49c4-81a8-5113be840765. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ↑ Overbye, Dennis (2020-07-27). "Coming of Age on Mars" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/science/mars-sarah-stewart-johnson.html.
- ↑ "Sarah Stewart Johnson, EAPS PhD, gives rein to curiosity" (in en). 4 September 2012. https://news.mit.edu/2012/sarah-stewart-johnson-eaps-phd-gives-rein-to-curiosity.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Graham, Elyse (4 September 2012). "Sarah Stewart Johnson, EAPS PhD, gives rein to curiosity" (in en). MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). https://news.mit.edu/2012/sarah-stewart-johnson-eaps-phd-gives-rein-to-curiosity. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ↑ "Field Sites | Johnson Biosignatures Lab" (in en-US). http://www.johnsonbiosignatureslab.com/field-sites/.
- ↑ "LAB | Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures" (in en). https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/.
- ↑ "Sarah Johnson". Georgetown University. https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TIFDAA4/sarah-johnson. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ↑ "Bio - Sarah Stewart Johnson". https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/index.cfm?fuseAction=people.jumpBio&iphonebookid=71515&navTab=nav_about_us.
- ↑ "Sarah Stewart Johnson". https://ellenmeloy.com/sarah-stewart-johnson.
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