Dr. Jack D. Farmer received a Ph.D. in geology from the University of California, Davis in 1978 and has since held positions as Senior Museum Scientist and Lecturer (U. C. Davis), Senior Petroleum Geologist (Exxon, Western Division Production), and Visiting and Adjunct Professorships in the Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA. Jack joined NASA-Ames Research Center in 1991 as a National Research Council Senior Fellow, later becoming a Research Scientist in the Exobiology Branch. His interests include early biosphere evolution, the microbiology and biosedimentology of thermal springs and other extreme environments, and strategies for exploring Mars for a past or present biosphere. He is Associate Editor of Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere and is active in the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Paleontological Society, and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. He presently holds appointments on NASA's Solar System Exploration Subcommittee, JPL's Microrobotics Science Advisory Group, the Solar System Exploration Roadmap Development Team, and the Mars 2001-2005 Science Definition Team.

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