research overview
- I do not normally do research myself, but I support research of other professors in our group. My graduate project group builds full-sized human spacecraft mockups that are then used to support research activities of other professors. An example is build of a human space habitat to be used by the Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) research team. HOME is a NASA research project that funds four professors and several graduate students in the Bioastronautics Group in the AES Department. Another research project supported was the Trinity Team that is working under a NASA grant to conduct research on training in a virtual environment compared to a real environment. My graduate project team built and tested a full size, functional lunar rover mockup to use as the real-world environment for the research. Recently my graduate project class designed a medical clinic for Mars and translated that design into a full-sized trailer to be used as a simulated Mars medical clinic. The fully-functional trailer/clinic simulator will be used at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah to support the Medicine in Space and Surface Environments class taught by CU Boulder AES Department and CU Anschutz Department of Emergency Medicine. Current project work involves working with the Boeing Company on design of a Mars Transit Vehicle. I did participate as a Research Collaborator for the NASA Inspires proposal with Dr. Luis Zea and Dr. Allison Anderson - IXCHEL - Investigating eXoplanetary and Cosmic radiation biological Hazard Extenuation with Lunar regolith.