We continue our conversation with Morgan and Lee Grant Irons on everything you wanted to know about the intricacies of terraforming. In short: it’s complicated!

Morgan is a Soil and Crop Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Lehmann Lab at Cornell University, where her research focuses on microbial-adhesion mechanisms and organo-mineral, organo-organic interactions in soil aggregates and their effects on soil organic carbon sequestration under Earth gravity and microgravity. In 2018, Morgan was also awarded US Patent 9,970,208; ""Ecological system model for a self-sustaining and resilient human habitation on the Moon and Mars and for food security and climate change mitigation anywhere on Earth."

Lee Grant Irons is a scientist and engineer, with experience in the fields and industries of space plasma and computational physics, nuclear power ...