August, 2026 GSA Today
https://www.geosociety.org/publications/gsa-today
https://www.geosociety.org/gsa-today/kathy-benison-thompson-distinguished-lecturer
April 5, 2023 Scientific American magazine
April 3, 2023 Nature News
May 25, 2022 Weather.com
May 23, 2022 National Public Radio’s All Things Considered
May 17, 2022 USA Today
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”
