Preparing for space exploration is focus of March 19 Faculty Lecture

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Posted: Mar 16, 2015

Dr. Kim Binsted, principal investigator for HI-SEAS
Dr. Kim Binsted, principal investigator for HI-SEAS
HI-SEAS habitat on Hawaii Island.
HI-SEAS habitat on Hawaii Island.

Join Dr. Kim Binsted, principal investigator for the HI-SEAS project, for a Faculty Lecture on “Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation,” on Thursday, March 19, at 11:30 a.m. in Hamilton Library Room 301.

HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, www.hi-seas.org) is a habitat on an isolated Mars-like site on the Mauna Loa side of the saddle area on Hawai‘i Island at approximately 8,200 feet above sea level. Here, crews of six people live and work through long-duration simulations of Mars exploration missions (four-, eight- and twelve-months long).

Binsted will discuss research aiming to answer critical questions to prepare for extended space exploration, including:

  • How should the crew be selected?
  • What skillsets will they need?
  • How should they be trained?
  • How can we best monitor their physical and psychological health?

This talk is the second lecture as part of the UH Mānoa Spring 2015 Faculty Lecture Series.

Binsted joined the faculty of the Information and Computer Sciences Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2002, where she does research on artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and human factors for space exploration.

She was Chief Scientist on the FMARS 2007 Long Duration Mission, a four-month Mars exploration analogue on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. In 2009, she spent her sabbatical as a visiting scientist at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), working on the CSA’s planetary analogues program.  

For more information, visit: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ovcr/mfls/index.html