Amy C. McAdam

Amy McAdam is a space scientist in the Planetary Environments Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She is a geochemist with a research emphasis on studies of the mineralogy and chemistry of planetary materials and their analogs using a variety of analytical techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), secondary electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), and evolved gas analysis (EGA). One current focus of her research is EGA studies of Mars analog minerals and materials in support of similar measurements that will be taken by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.