Dr. Pascal Lee (Director, HMP / NASA Ames, Mars Institute, SETI Institute) talks about the 2008 field season with the Haughton-Mars Project.

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Marcelo Vazquez (NSBRI, Space Radiation Liason) talks about a number of research projects he was involved with this field season for the Haughton-Mars Project.

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Scott Thackrey, a planetary geologist from the University of Aberdeen, talks about his research on Devon Island for the Haughton-Mars Project.

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Pam Baskin from the NASA Johnson Space Center and NSBRI talks about her study during the Haughton-Mars Project 2008 field season.

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Prof. Charles Mason (Morehead State University) is working with his former student, Megan Ennis (who graduated on this day!), mapping the area around the Haughton-Mars Project Research Station in greater detail than has been done before.

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Dr. Stephen Braham, Christine Pires, Steve Baird

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Since 1999 the primary exploration systems support at HMP have been provided by Dr. Steve Braham, Mars Institute/Simon Fraser University (SFU) and his team. Dr. Braham, now in his tenth field season, is the Chief Field Engineer and Associate Director for HMP, and, this year. He is the lead of the Exploration Systems Operations Centre (ExSOC) project at his lab at SFU, PolyLAB, which is a unit of the SFU Telematics Research Laboratory, lead by Steve's long-term research partner Professor Peter Anderson.

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Dr. Brian Glass (NASA Ames), the principal investigator for the Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration (DAME) project, and Steve Baird (UBC / HMP Field Assistant), set up a repeater to help with communications between the Haughton-Mars Project Research Station and the DAME tent.

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Mary Roach is visiting the Haughton-Mars Project Research Station as inspiration for her new book in progress.

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Eleanor Whitworth is a writer of short stories and the daughter of Alex Whitworth who is currently sailing the Northwest Passage from Australia to London.

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On August 1, 2008, Bill Atwood performed radio frequency observations of the total solar eclipse at the Haughton-Mars Project Research Station on Devon Island, High Arctic.

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Music: "New World" from the "Mars" CD by Elaine Walker

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Dr. Nadeem Ghafoor of MDA Space Missions discusses his work on Devon Island for the Haughton-Mars Project during the 2008 field season. Video by Elaine Walker (EPO, HMP, Mars Institute). Copyright 2008 Mars Institute

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Dr. Vince Pisacane, the R. A. Heinlein Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the US Naval Academy talks about the HAWK2 Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC), whicgh measures the radiation risk in real time and is funded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

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Darlene Lim, a limnologist from NASA Ames, demonstrates how she filters her water samples and talks about her research Devon Island for the HMP.

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Alaura Singleton is a student of Gordon "Oz" Osinski at the University of Western Ontario and is participating in the Haughton-Mars Project 2008 field season.

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Laura Thomson is a student of Gordon "Oz" Osinski at the University of Western Ontario and is participating in the Haughton-Mars Project 2008 field season.

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Science Report by Elaine Walker (EPO, Mars Institute)

Dr. Robert Ferl and Dr. Ana-Lisa Paul (UF) copyright 2008 Mars Institute

Plants report more about their environment than humans and other animals do because they have to deal directly with their surroundings. Unlike animals, plants cannot get up and walk indoors when they experience environmental stress. They are equipped with genes that allow them to deal with a variety of stresses, as a result of their long evolutionary history in a particular environment.

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Charles Cockell from Open University talks about polar geomicrobiology at Trinity Lake on Devon Island.

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