Adriana Ocampo, Colombian Planetary Geologist
<p>Adriana Ocampo was born on January 5, 1955 in Barranquilla, Colombia and was later raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is one of three daughters of Victor Alberto Ocampo, an engineer, and Teresa Uria de Ocampo, a marine biologist. Her parents gave their utmost support to fulfill her desires to study science, especially when they would occasionally catch her turning her dolls into astronauts or looking at stars in the night sky. When she turned 14, Ocampo’s family immigrated to the United States, and after her junior year in 1973, she landed a summer job at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she continued to work part-time until college. She graduated from California State University and earned her B.S. in Geology in 1983 then later pursued her M.S. degree in Planetary Geology from California State University, Northridge, in 1997. Finally, she finished off with a Ph.D. in Planetary Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.</p>
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