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Aaron Celestian, PhD, Kriss Leftwich

Minerals interact with everything — environments, living things, ancient oceans, other worlds. I'm a museum curator and scientist who writes about what those interactions reveal.

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  • Aaron Celestian, PhD

    I'm Curator of Mineral Sciences at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. I study how minerals interact with environments and living things — and apply that to contamination, disease, and the search for life beyond Earth.

  • Kriss Leftwich

    Collections Manager of Mineral Sciences at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Naturalist. Birder. Reader. Amateur seamstress.

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