ABOUT DR. PASCAL LEE
Dr. Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He received his doctorate in Astronomy and Space Sciences from Cornell University where he was Joseph Veverka’s last graduate student and Carl Sagan’s last T.A. Dr Lee’s research focuses on the history of water on the Moon and Mars, the origin of Mars’ moons, and planning the future human exploration of Moon and Mars. He has led over 30 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica to study Mars by comparison with the Earth. He once spent 402 days wintering over at a remote base in Antarctica. Dr. Lee is the director of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project, the leading Moon and Mars exploration field research project on Devon Island, Arctic. He also led the Northwest Passage Drive Expedition, the first road-vehicle crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage and the subject of the award-winning documentary film Passage To Mars (2016). He was also scientist-pilot for the first field test of NASA’s Lunar Electric Rover (LER), a concept vehicle astronauts may one day drive on the Moon and Mars. Dr. Lee’s first book, Mission: Mars, won the 2015 Prize for Excellence in children’s science books from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In his free time, Pascal likes to be walked by his dogs, fly, and paint. He is an FAA-certified helicopter commercial pilot and flight instructor, and an artist member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.