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Bonnie Baxter

Westminster College

Professor of Biology & Director of the Great Salt Lake Institute 

Bonnie studies the microbial diversity of Great Salt Lake and is interested in halophiles as models for astrobiology. This led her to study the formation and persistence of microbialites in hypersaline waters. She and Scott are using Great Salt Lake as an analogue for ancient salt lakes on Mars.