April 5, 2023 Scientific American magazine
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-perseverance-rover-may-already-have-evidence-of-ancient-martian-life/
April 3, 2023 Nature News
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00927-z?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202304&sap-outbound-id=A97506422641B8A628CCAEF78FBB196FB6FFB4EF
May 25, 2022 Weather.com
https://weather.com/science/video/life-could-be-hiding-in-this-830-million-year-old-salt?traffic_source=Connatix
May 23, 2022 National Public Radio’s All Things Considered
May 17, 2022 USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/17/830-million-years-microorganisms-halite-sample/9795583002/
March 2021 Daily Space podcast, interview with MS student Sara Shreder-Gomes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tudbx_mfPpo
March 2021 “Speaking of Geoscience”: The Geological Society of America’s Guest Blog:
https://speakingofgeoscience.org/2021/03/25/an-interview-with-kathleen-counter-benison-ph-d/
Feb. 2021 Julie Mason Mornings, Sirius Radio, on-air interview:
May 2, 2019 “Mining for a New Theory Worth its Salt”, Hutchinson News
Interview with Sofia Andeskie about origins of Hutchinson Salt
https://www.hutchnews.com/news/20190501/mining-for-new-theory-worth-its-salt
Oct/Nov 2018 People and Places profile, Morgantown Magazine, WV Living http://www.morgantownmag.com/people-places/kathleen-benison
6/29/18 on-air interview, The Gary Bowden Show, WAJR, Clarksburg, WV, https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ajrnewsnetwork/episodes/2018-06-29T10_30_43-07_00
6/16/17 Earth magazine, “Whirling "gravel devils" show wind can carry more than just sand” https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/whirling-gravel-devils-show-wind-can-carry-more-just-sand
4/24/17 The Weather Channel, live on-air interview with Jim Cantore and Stephanie Abrahms, “What is a gravel devil?”
4/21/17 New York Times, “What moves gravel-sized gypsum crystals around the desert?" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/science/gravel-devils-gypsum-crystals-chile-desert.html
4/19/17 The Guardian, “Whirlwinds stronger and larger than any other” https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/apr/19/whirlwinds-stronger-andes-crystals-salar-de-gorbea-dunes
4/11/17 Science News, “Whirlwinds of crystals called gravel devils spotted in Andes Mountains” https://www.sciencenews.org/article/whirlwinds-crystals-called-gravel-devils-spotted-andes-mountains?tgt=nr
3/23/17 The Economist, “The devils and the details: Powerful whirlwinds explain an odd feature of the Atacama Desert” http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21719437-site-some-most-extraordinary-dunes-earth-powerful-whirlwinds
7/29/16 The Economist, “Time capsules: A new way to chart the rise of oxygen” http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21702742-new-way-chart-rise-oxygen-time-capsules?fsrc=rss%7Csct
7/25/16 Science News, “Ancient air bubbles could revise history of Earth’s oxygen” https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-air-bubbles-could-revise-history-earth%E2%80%99s-oxygen?tgt=nr
7/2/15 NSF STEPPE website, “Core to Outcrop: Challenges with Displaced Sedimentary Strata” https://steppe.org/core-to-outcrop-challenges-with-displaced-sedimentary-strata/
6/1/15 Science Daily website, “Acid saline groundwater and lakes of southern Western Australia” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150601172920.htm
2/27/15 AGU Tumblr, “Stories from the Field: Extreme Environments - Acid Salt Lakes” http://americangeophysicalunion.tumblr.com/post/112222402938/stories-from-the-field-extreme-environments
7/21/14 Earth-pages (website about research news from the earth sciences), “Trapping martian life forms” http://earth-pages.co.uk/2014/07/21/trapping-martian-life-forms
7/16/14 Red Planet Report, Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, “Could Mars gypsum preserve microbes?” http://redplanet.asu.edu/?p=8421
6/6/14 Inside Science magazine “Chile’s Volcanic Lakes May Hint at Where to Look for Life on Mars” http://www.insidescience.org/content/chiles-volcanic-akes-may-hint-where-look-life-mars/1656 (re-published on Philly.com, Science20.com, PhysicsBuzz.com, etc.)
9/11/13 New Scientist magazine (issue 2934), “Earth’s extreme life holds hints to Martian past” http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929343.200-earths-extreme-life-holds-hints-to-martian-past.html#.UjMf-Y7KwdI
3/28/13 Science News magazine, “Kansas was unbearably hot 270 million years ago” http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349248/description/Kansas__was_unbearably_hot_270_million_years_ago
3/26/10 New Scientist magazine, “Microbes thrive in harsh, Mars-like lakes" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18709-microbes-thrive-in-harsh-marslike-lakes.html
1/21/10 Astrobiology magazine, “Microbial life in Mars analog lakes" lakes”http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/3378/microbial-life-in-mars-analog-lakes
6/7/08 New Scientist magazine (issue 2659), “'Hairy blobs in acid hell suggest new niche for life”
6/2008 WCMU Public Radio interview about planetary protection for Mars sample return
4/2008 WCMU Public Radio interview about salt on Mars
3/2006 WCMU Public Radio interview on acid saline lakes in the Andes Mountains of Chile
March 2021 GSA
7/2005 National Geographic Magazine, “Making a splash on Mars”
3/15/04 Newsweek and MSNBC webpage, “Visiting Mars? Don’t drink the water”
5/04/03 Geotimes,”Martian field trips on Earth”
