Bethany Ehlmann is a professor of planetary science at Caltech and Director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies. Professor Ehlmann’s research focuses on solar system exploration, particularly the composition of planetary surfaces and remote sensing techniques and instruments. She has leadership roles on the science teams of missions to Mars, the Moon, asteroids, and Europa as well as the Earth-orbiting EMIT imaging spectrometer. Prof. Ehlmann served on the Steering Committee of the most recent National Academies Decadal Survey of Astrobiology and Planetary Science and is President of The Planetary Society. She is recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s Macelwane medal, the American Astronomical Society Planetary Science Division Urey prize, COSPAR’s Zeldovich medal, and is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. She has also written a children’s book on exploration, Dr. E’s Super-Stellar Solar System, with National Geographic.