User:Nholguin8/Aileen Yingst

Education
 Career 

While in graduate school, Yingst was part of a team that received funding to work on NASA's Clementine lunar project. She also receive individual NASA funding to study rock fragments. Yingst became Director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium in 2001. From 2002-2006, she held the roles of Secretary Treasurer, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Planetary Division of the Geological Society of America.

She was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2015. Yingst has served as Associate Principal Investigator on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program.

As of June 6, 2019 R. Aileen Yingst became the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Chair. The MEPAG is a scientific community based group that helps to analyze and determine Mars exploration supporting NASA’s interplanetary travel initiatives.

As of February 2021, she is Principal Investigator for the lunar Heimdall camera system, and Deputy Principal Investigator on the Mars Hand Lens Imager.

She is a geologist and senior scientist at the nonprofit Planetary Science Institute, am organization that partners with NASA. Her research focuses on the texture of surfaces on Mars, the Moon and other planets.

 Personal Life 

Yingst resides in Brunswick, Maine. She is from from Berrien Springs, Michigan. She is married to Ross Nova and together they have two children Joshua and Rebecca. Between 2018-2021 R. Aileen Yignest and her husband Ross Nova were donors supporting the Chamberlain Exterior Restoration for Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum.

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