Lisa M. Pratt, Provost's Professor of Geological Sciences, Indiana University
Lisa Pratt is Provost’s Professor of Geological Sciences at Indiana and recipient of the 2003 Distinguished Faculty Award in the College of Arts and Sciences. As director of a NASA Astrobiology 
Institute team (Biosustaining Energy and Nutrient Cycles in the Deep Subsurface of Earth and Mars), she has collected samples of water, rock, and natural gas in active gold mines at depths up to 2.5 miles below the surface in South Africa and in the Canadian Arctic. Her collaborative research with Tullis Onstott on radiolysis of water as a source of energy for microbial metabolism has been highlighted worldwide.
She is chair of the NASA science advisory group developing a 2018 mission concept for a Mars rover, likely to be the first step in a sample return campaign, and she currently serves on the Mars panel for the National Research Council Planetary Science Decadal Survey. She has been active on national committees of the Geological Society of America, the Geochemical Society, and the Society for Sedimentary Geology and is a former member of the editorial boards of Geology, GSA Bulletin, and Geobiology.
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