Geophysicist shares finds from red planet
David Gunter Feature Correspondent | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 8 months AGO
<p>Dr. Wendy Calvin stands beside the Mars Science Laboratory engineering model in the ‘Mars Yard’ at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Calvin will be the guest speaker at the next Friends of the Library public meeting, with two presentations scheduled for this Thursday, April 2, at noon and 2 p.m., at the Sandpoint branch of the East Bonner County Library. (Courtesy photo)</p>
SANDPOINT — The colonization of Mars might still be a long way off, but, for one noted geophysicist with family ties to Sandpoint, trekking around the red planet is all in a day’s work.
Thursday, Dr. Wendy Calvin, professor of geophysics and remote sensing and director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy at the University of Nevada-Reno, will be the featured speaker for the monthly Friends of the Library public meeting.
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