{"592438":{"#nid":"592438","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Kennda Lynch Creates a Career in Astrobiology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kennda-lynch-85ba79\u0022\u003EKennda Lynch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;may spend a lot of time on an ancient lake\u0026nbsp;basin in Utah, but in her mind she\u0026#39;s picturing herself on a barren Martian landscape, searching for proof of\u0026nbsp;past life. That\u0026#39;s because the paleolake contains minerals also discovered on Mars, and her work could help determine where the Mars 2020 Rover mission will land. Lynch,\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;postdoctoral research fellow with the School of Biological Sciences,\u0026nbsp;is on\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;team for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nai.nasa.gov\u0022\u003ENASA Astrobiology Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, which helps the space agency develop\u0026nbsp;scientific goals for future missions. She was recently profiled by her undergraduate alma mater, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/illinois.edu\u0022\u003EUniversity of Illinois\u003C\/a\u003E, where she majored in biology and engineering. Her profile on the university\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;Industrial Systems Engineering website can be found \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ise.illinois.edu\/newsroom\/article\/kennda-lynch#\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-06-05 21:23:42","changed_gmt":"2017-06-07 21:20:30","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tatiana Voltskaya","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nai.nasa.gov\/articles\/2017\/6\/2\/how-kennda-lynch-creates-a-career-in-astrobiology\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592439":{"id":"592439","type":"image","title":"Kennda Lynch (Photo by NASA Astrobiology Institute)","body":null,"created":"1496697997","gmt_created":"2017-06-05 21:26:37","changed":"1496697997","gmt_changed":"2017-06-05 21:26:37","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225781","name":"Kennda Lynch.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kennda%20Lynch.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kennda%20Lynch.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1338932,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Kennda%20Lynch.png?itok=vkZyvJPp"}}},"media_ids":["592439"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"174596","name":"NASA Astrobiology Institute"},{"id":"174597","name":"Kennda Lynch"},{"id":"174598","name":"paleolake"},{"id":"174599","name":"Mars 2020 Rover mission"},{"id":"7057","name":"Mars"},{"id":"174600","name":"martian"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}