Darlene is a geobiologist and limnologist based at the NASA Ames Research Center. Her research interests span Earth and Space Science. She conducts limnological and paleolimnological investigations of remote lakes and ponds in the Canadian High Arctic to characterize Holocene climate change. She has also extrapolated her Arctic work to Mars analogue paleolake reconstructions. Principal Investigator (on leave June 1, 2010)