Kelly Miller Honored with NASA Early Career Award
LPL alumna Dr. Kelly Miller (2016) was selected as one of five NASA early-career scientists to be honored with a 2023 Planetary Science Early Career Award (ECA). The awards recognize demonstrated leadership, involvement in the planetary science community, and potential for future impact.
Dr. Miller is a Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Her project, “Carbon-Based Connections: From Earth to the Outer Solar System,” will establish carbon-based connections across the solar system and will include outreach efforts with middle schools in San Antonio.
The NASA ECA program supports exceptional early-career scientists who play a meaningful role in the planetary science community to pursue professional development in areas relevant to NASA’s Planetary Science Division. The goal of each proposal is to identify a need in the community and propose a project to address that need. Each project is facilitated by a grant of up to $200,000 to each of the selected principal investigators.
The selected projects span the full breadth of planetary science research, and the principal investigators are based at U.S. universities and research institutes.