Tina Seeger

Tina Seeger is a first-year graduate student studying geology at Western Washington University, where she uses the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam instrument to investigate compositional differences between rock types. She joined the Curiosity team after completing a BA in Geosciences and Astronomy at Williams College, and quickly fell in love with using space robots to study her favorite subject: space rocks. When she’s not on shift to help drive Curiosity, she works on the Mars 2020 team as a student collaborator for the Mastcam-Z instrument to prepare for the next rover’s adventures. She occasionally steps away from robotically climbing Mount Sharp to climb Washington’s spectacular volcanoes, and shares her love of space as the astronomy program’s Dark Ranger at Mount Rainier National Park.