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Darlene Lim

Mars Researcher

Dr. Darlene Lim is a researcher, science promoter and one of a select few Canadians who, as a doctoral student at the University of Toronto, was chosen to participate in the NASA/SETI Haughton Mars Project, an ongoing multidisciplinary, international effort to conduct Mars analog studies at Haughton Crater, Devon Island, in Nunavut. Lim was also selected to inhabit FMARS (the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station), the world’s first Mars simulation base, at the Haughton Crater. She was a member of the FMARS inaugural crew in August 2000 and subsequently completed a second assignment in the summer of 2001.

Lim is now based at the NASA Ames Research Center in Northern California, and is currently conducting Mars analog research both in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and on carbonate lakes from the Arctic to the Antarctic.

Lim sat on the Board of Advisors (2002-2003) of the newly founded U.S.-based Mars Institute, a premier international NGO for the research and exploration of Mars. Lim is a member of the Steering Committee for The Mars Society, an international non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of human Mars exploration and research, and is also a member of the Northern Light Canadian Mars Mission Science Team.