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Draft of Lisa Pratt Article
Lisa M. Pratt is an astrobiologist who currently works at the University of Indiana as a Provost Professor as well as the Planetary Protection Officer for NASA. She holds two responsibilities at NASA: first, protecting the Earth in event of extraterrestrial involvement, and second, ensuring that Earth's microbes do not travel and impact other planets in the solar system.

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Contents
1	Academic

Projects

3	NASA

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4	Awards and honors

5	References

Academic career
Lisa Pratt began her academic career in 1972 at the University of North Carolina where she earned her Bachelor's of Arts in Botany. In 1974 she received her Masters of Science from the University of Illinois in Botany. Pratt later entered the field of Geology by earning her Masters of Science from the University of North Carolina in 1978 and her Doctorate Degree from Princeton University. She currently serves as a Provost Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for the University of Indiana at Bloomington where she has been a faculty member since 1987. Since joining the University of Indiana at Bloomington's faculty, Pratt has focused her research on how extreme environments effect the microorganisms within them.

Projects
One of Pratt's first major projects was where she studied microorganisms in the extreme heat of active African gold mines.[3] This was significant as it led to NASA looking to bring Pratt in to help study the microorganisms effected on their future projects. This project led to NASA funding one of her projects In 2011, in which she received a $2.4 million grant from NASA’s Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets program to study microorganisms on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

NASA
While Pratt has been a faculty member for the University of Indiana at Bloomington since 1987, she has a history of working with NASA since the early 2000s. She served as a team director at the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2003 to 2008. Pratt also served as a chair for NASA's Mars Exploration Program Analysis from 2013 to 2016, and currently serves as a chair for the Return Sample Science Board for the Mars 2020 Rover mission. On February 5th 2018, Pratt was also brought on to serve as the Planetary Protection Officer for NASA.

*needed: Early Life
Lisa Pratt was raised in Rochester, Minnesota where she was born. As a young student and the daughter of a surgeon, she developed an

Awards and honors
National Association of Science Teachers, Shell Science Seminar Featured Speaker, 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Triennial Council Meeting, featured lecture, 2012 Fellow Geological Society of America, 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2009-2011 Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Alumni, Distinguished Faculty Member, 2003 American Association Petroleum Geologists, Eastern Section, Outstanding Educator, 2002 Association of Women Geoscientists, Outstanding Educator, 1997 Distinguished Lecturer, American Association Petroleum Geologists, 1990-1991 Matson Award American Association Petroleum Geologist, 1986 National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow 1982-1984

Lisa Pratt Article Goals[edit]
Goals for editing the Lisa Pratt article:

1. Make article more easily accessible by changing the title

2. Add an image

3. Add to the lead section to into what the page is going to be about rather than just a one sentence description of who Lisa Pratt is

4. Add more information to each section (NASA, Projects)

5. Add a section about her early life that includes her undergraduate education

6. Rewrite Projects section to include more details and better grammar

Bibliography for Lisa Pratt article

 * Wikipedia request page: Biogeochemist, astrobiologist and the recently appointed NASA Planetary Protection Officer who is responsible for the prevention of microbial contamination between planetary bodies within our solar system (planetary protection). The South Bend Tribune wrote that "She has blazed trail for women in sciences". Professor emeritus at Indiana University whose work took her to the far ends of the globe looking for extremophiles from beneath the Greenland ice sheath to one mile below the earth surface inside of South African gold mines. Former head of the NASA funded Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Institute. Frequent collaborator with Tullis Onstott.
 * NASA's OSMA page: Pratt is the Planetary Protection Office (at the bottom of page) (done)
 * Article from the South Bend Tribune: Feb 4th 2018
 * Article from Princeton Alumni Weekly: Feb 14th 2018
 * Article from Indiana University: Jan 18th 2018
 * Podcast from the Naked Scientists that Pratt appears on in 2007
 * Indiana University Youtube Video of Lisa Pratt called Lisa Pratt Saves the World
 * Article from Business Insider: Feb 27th 2018
 * Article from Science Magazine: Feb 22nd 2018
 * Paper in Geomicrobiology Journal: Planktonic Microbial Communities Associated with Fracture-Derived Groundwater in a Deep Gold Mine of South Africa
 * Science Direct paper: Large fractionations of C and H isotopes related to methane oxidation in Arctic lakes
 * Science Direct paper: Reactions of hydrothermal solutions with organic matter in Paleoproterozoic black shales at Talvivaara, Finland: Evidence from multiple sulfur isotopes
 * Article from Indiana University: Indiana University to become NASA base for space biology studies
 * Paper in American Society for Microbiology: Sulfur Isotope Enrichment during Maintenance Metabolism in the Thermophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfotomaculum putei
 * Paper in Geo Science World: Large variations of oxygen isotopes in precipitation over south-central Tibet during Marine Isotope Stage 5
 * Paper in Science Direct: Reactions of hydrothermal solutions with organic matter in Paleoproterozoic black shales at Talvivaara, Finland: Evidence from multiple sulfur isotopes
 * Article from Indiana University: Scientist at Work: Lisa Pratt
 * List of awards and honors from Indiana University (done)

Peer Review:[edit]
Hi! I completely agree with your goals for editing Lisa Pratt's Wikipedia article. I think improving the lead section is every important since that is what the article starts off with. I also think including an image would make the article stand out more. Have you considered adding more sections that focus on her personal or early life? I think including these sections can really put the entire article together. Zbaraceros (talk) 03:01, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review Response[edit]
Thank you so much for reviewing my article goals! I like your idea of adding more sections, especially one about Lisa's early life. For those that are inspired by her, it would be encouraging to learn more about how she got to where she is today. Thank you for your input, I'll definitely be implementing it. Meghancmalloy (talk) 00:32, 13 November 2018 (UTC)Meghancmalloy

Polishing My Work (Exercise 12)
This week, in order to improve my article, I wanted to accomplish my goal of asking the people on the talk page if they would be willing to change the title of the article from Lisa M. Pratt to just Lisa Pratt. I posted this on the talk page, asking if anyone had intel on why Lisa's "M" initial was included in the first place.