HMP Research Station Status Report
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Vince Pisacane was the only arrival. He is a professor of aerospace engineering at the US Naval Academy and holds the Robert A. Heinlein chair. His research is funded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).
Darlene Lim (NASA Ames) traversed to Stanford Lake with Katsak Manik (from Resolute) and Christine Pires (Simon Fraser University). She reports having another lucrative day sampling water.
Neil Banerjee from the University of Western Ontario and his students, Matthew Izawa and Mike Liberty, along with Jesse Weaver (technician) and Jarloo Kiguktak (from Grise Fiord) were not able to reach their destination because Haughton River was too high.
Brian Glass (NASA Ames) and his team, Sarah Thompson and Sarah Huffman (both NASA Ames), Shannon Statham (Georgia Tech) and Joanna Cohen (Honeybee Robotics), along with additional help from John Schutt (HMP Base Camp Manager) and Steve Baird (UBC), erected the DAME tent at the hydrothermal site.
Back at the Research Station, Ben Audlaluk, from Grise Fiord, was an ultrasound patient for the medical team, Dr. Jean-Marc Comtois (CSA) and Dr. Christian Otto (University of Ottawa).
Perry Johnson-Green (CSA) took his last soil samples for the season and is scheduled to fly to Resolute tomorrow. Perry gave an evening lecture titled "Plant Life In the Haughton Impact Crater (and outside the crater)", explaining his research on Devon Island with the HMP. He is gaining a better understanding of plant life in a polar desert, with implications in other areas such as the potential for plant life outside the Earth.
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 23, 2008
"HMP7SFU Portable Elaine out and clear"
