Her work focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques, statistical methods and laboratory spectroscopy to investigate planetary surface processes. Dr. Rogers obtained her Ph.D. at Arizona State University and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. She was a member of the Mars Exploration Rover science team and is actively involved in the Mars Odyssey mission. She is also a Co-Investigator within the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) sub-node at Stony Brook University. She was named a NASA Planetary Science Division Early Career Fellow in 2008.