Elizabeth Maroon, MIT Undergraduate Student
Summer Intern, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
Advisor: Professor Raymond E. Arvidson

Abstract
The presentation and organization of data from field research is essential to understand the context and intent of the research after returning from the field. It is even more important when field research has been conducted remotely, as with the NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission. To place individual experiments into context, the MER team has developed the “Analyst’s Notebook,” which organizes all data products from the mission. Data are organized by date (sol), by location, by tool used, and by other criteria in conjunction with a search engine. The basic structure of the MER Analyst’s Notebook has been scaled down and used to organize the data collected from various field projects of the Washington University in St. Louis Pathfinder Program in Environmental Sustainability over the past few years. Analyst’s Notebooks that organized photos (for context and of samples), sample data, spectroscopic files and other data collected were created for the Pathfinder 401 (directed research) class’s trips to Rio Tinto, Spain (2005-2007), to the Mo’omomi Reserve, Hawai’i (2004) and to assorted locations in Hawai’i (1999-2003). All of these locations (save the Mo’omomi Reserve) share one common feature; they have some geologic condition that can be used as an analog for Martian geology. Also included in this report is a proposal for the creation of an Analyst’s Notebook for the Apollo 17 lunar mission to the Taurus-Littrow region to facilitate in mission recall more than 35 years later.