Her areas of interest include creative process and interdisciplinary research. She is currently writing "Art & Shadows," a blog on contemporary art in light of contemporary science, funded by the Art Writers Grant Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation, and creating a new series of "Madame Entropy" lecture/performances. Dawn Sumner is a geobiology professor at the University of California, Davis. In her research, she focuses on interpreting processes from patterns, mostly patterns in rocks, to understand interactions among life and environments. She has recently expanded beyond ancient Earth to explore living microbial communities in Antarctic lakes and help lead science operations for the NASA Mars rover, Curiosity. Adventures of all sorts feed her personal curiosity.