Janice Bishop received her M.S. degree in Applied Earth Science (Remote Sensing) at Stanford University and the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at Brown University. She was a Humboldt Fellow at the German Space Agency in Berlin and an NRC Fellow at NASA-Ames Research Center. Currently she is a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute studying planetary spectroscopy and mineral physics.

Most of her projects are directed towards identifying minerals on Mars that lead towards detection of water, using both spectral images of Mars and laboratory analyses of rocks and minerals. In addition, spectral analyses of Mars analog sites on Earth are an important focus of Dr. Bishop’s work in order to understand the spectral features needed for detection of similar minerals and processes on Mars.