Watkins

Personal data: Birth date:  14 May 1988 Birthplace:  Gaithersburg, Maryland Marital status:   Children:   Grade / Fonction:   Selection date:  07 Jun 2017 Selection group:  NASA-22 Job:  PLT Status:  active

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Additional information:

• Was 29 years at the time of selection. Hails from Lafayette, Colorado. She graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in geological and environmental sciences, then went on to earn a doctorate in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Watkins has worked at NASA's Ames Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory and currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, where she collaborates on the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity.
• Her personal interests include playing rugby, coaching basketball, writing short stories, rock climbing, and flying planes.