FMARS Crew Biographies Nell Beedle I grew up in Michigan, and I was lucky enough to be born in time to witness the manned lunar missions. It used to be a well kept secret that I wrote my eighth-grade science fair paper on "The Geology of Mars", but that was back when I just wanted to be an astronaut. It wasn't until drifting away from undergraduate physics that I got seriously interested in Geology. I graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Geology. As an undergraduate, I went to the University of Missouri - Rolla geology field camp in southwestern Utah, so spending last March at MDRS was a bit like "coming home" for me. After college, I spent several years in Santa Barbara, California, camping, hiking, whitewater rafting, and trying (unsuccessfully!) to learn to surf. I also took some time to write a bit about pseudotachylites (frictionally melted rocks sometimes found along fault surfaces and around impact craters) for which I received a Geology MA from USCB. While I was in graduate school, I went "to sea" a bit to earn some money and see the world. That experience led to my job as a marine geologist for Fugro Seafloor Surveys, Inc. in Seattle that pretty well supports my snowboarding and backpacking habit...
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