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Margaret Carruthers Planetary Geoligist American Museum of Natural History

Margaret is a planetary geologist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History. She has a wide range of scientific interests from geoscience education on Earth to hydrovolcanism on Mars. At the Museum her work includes keeping the rock samples under control and aiding the development of the Museum's new Hall of Planet Earth. Previous sample collecting expeditions have taken her to the recently discovered Shona Hotspot in the far South Atlantic, to the platinum mines of Montana, and into the deep interior of Central Park. Margaret also enjoys identifying mystery samples from the public and serving as an emergency consultant to desperate fifth graders with overdue rock reports. On this cruise she will be putting her knowledge of remote sensing and image processing to use in working with the Jason images of the hydrothermal vents.