Out Of The Blank #355 - Morgan Irons (Astroecologist & Soil Scientist)

Morgan is the Founder and Chief Science Officer of Deep Space Ecology Inc., a space and agricultural business startup working to solve the challenges of food security on Earth and deep space as we venture out into our solar system. Her work concentrates on “quasi-closed, agroecological systems” for sustainability in extreme environments and long duration space habitation. Morgan is a Soil and Crop Sciences PhD candidate in the Lehman Lab at Cornell University, where her research focuses on soil organic matter stabilization mechanisms and carbon sequestration under varying environmental stressors. Morgan is the recipient of the 2019 Norfolk Institute Fellowship and the recipient of the 2019 Ken Souza Memorial Spaceflight Award of an experimental payload on a Blue Origin New Shepard Launch in 2020.

Morgan's Links:
Company website: www.deepspaceecology.com
Instagram: @astroecologist
Twitter: @dukemorganmars
Facebook: Morgan Irons, Scientist
Cornell: https://scs.cals.cornell.edu/people/morgan-irons/
LinkedIn: Morgan Irons

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