Stephen Braham

• Simon Fraser University

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide British Columbia local authorities and their communities with information that will allow them to evaluate the many options available to provide notification and warning to the public of a potential or impending Tsunami wave. In general, notification options fall into 2 categories: 1. Mass Notification Meth...

The Haughton-Mars Project Research Station (HMPRS) on Devon Island, High Arctic, is a field research facility dedicated to supporting analog field research in planetary science and exploration. The upcoming HMP-2016 field campaign will the HMP’s 20th.

The search for life (or the examination of the reasons for its absence) is one of the most compelling scientific activities to be undertaken in diverse environments on Mars. We describe the study of the microbiology of the Haughton impact crater in the Canadian Arctic, from a simulated Mars lander (the FMARS). Impacts events have had a profound inf...

Higher plants are an integral part of strategies for sustained human presence in space. Space-based greenhouses have the potential to provide closed-loop recycling of oxygen, water and food. Plant monitoring systems with the capacity to remotely observe the condition of crops in real-time within these systems would permit operators to take immediat...

In this paper, we present an overview of a proposed collaboration between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), which is designed to facilitate the introduction of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) radios for smart-sensing applications into international spaceflight programs and projects. The pr...

Hamilton Sundstrand has collaborated with NASA's Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) over the past decade in order to develop a better understanding of the design requirements for, and challenges facing, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) systems for planetary exploration. Each summer, mock-up systems emphasizing specific aspects of EVA system design have been...

Analog field studies at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) on Devon Island suggest that productive planetary field science can be conducted by humans from within the confines of a highly mobile, well-equipped, and well-instrumented pressurized vehicle.

With the prospect of humans returning to Moon by the end of the next decade, considerable attention is being paid to technologies required to transport astronauts to the lunar surface and then to be able to carry out surface science. Recent and ongoing initiatives have focused on scientific questions to be asked. In contrast, few studies have addre...

Hall is a proposed NASA-led New Frontiers-class international robotic lander and sample return mission to explore and return samples from the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

The Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse is a unique research facility dedicated to the study of greenhouse engineering and autonomous functionality under extreme operational conditions, in preparation for extraterrestrial biologically-based life support systems. The Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse is located at the Haughton Mars Project Research Station on...

Pressurized rovers will be key science "instruments" in the future humanexploration of the Moon and Mars. Lessons from long-range vehicular field traverses conducted at the Haughton-Mars Project site, Devon Island, HighArctic, are presented.

The use of engineered plants as biosensors has made elegant strides in the past decades, providing keen insights into the health of plants in general and particularly in the nature and cellular location of stress responses. However, most of the analytical procedures involve laboratory examination of the biosensor plants. With the advent of the gree...

An overview of the first few years of development and operation of the ACMGH on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada.

The HMP on Devon Island, High Arctic, is currently the world's largest land-based Moon/Mars analog field research project. The project supports an exploration program aimed at advancing technologies and operational experience needed for planning human Moo

In order to develop an evidence-base for handling a medical contingency on the lunar surface, a project using the Moon-Mars analog environment at Devon Island, Nunavut, high Canadian Arctic was conducted.

Since its deployment on Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic, in 2002, the Haughton Mars Project’s Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse (ACMG) has supported extreme environment related scientific and operation research that is relevant to Mars analogue studies – each at a specific level of fidelity and complexity. The Greenhouse serves as an initial experim...

Navigation—knowing where one is and finding a safe route—is a fundamental aspect of all exploration. In unfamiliar terrain, one may use maps and instruments such as a compass or binoculars to assist, and people often collaborate in finding their way. This paper analyzes a group of people driving a humvee from a base camp to the north coast of Devon...

The Hellas Basis is an impact-formed deep basin in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. We undertook a limited planning exercise for a human Trans-Hellas expedition that would traverse the basin from West to East. The authors of this paper divided into three teams. The Science Group was set the task of defining science goals for a Trans-Hellas Crossing...

NASA has long recognized the advantages of providing improved information interfaces to EVA astronauts and has pursued this goal through a number of development programs over the past decade. None of these activities or parallel efforts in industry and academia has so far resulted in the development of an operational system to replace or augment th...

The search for life (or the examination of the reasons for its absence) is one of the most compelling scientific activities on Mars. We describe the study of the microbiology of the Haughton impact crater in the Canadian Arctic, from a simulated Mars lander (the FMARS). Impact events have had a profound influence on Mars, and thus on any putative m...

Rapid innovations and improvements in communication technologies have opened many new channels for health education and delivery, as well as disaster management. Theme 2 examined the role and applicability of these technologies to Disaster Medicine and Management and the various issues involved in their use. Details of the methods used are provided...

We consider a parabolic-like systems of differential equations involving geometrical quantities to examine uniformization theorems for two- and three-dimensional closed orientable manifolds. We find that in the two-dimensional case there is a simple gauge theoretic flow for a connection built from a Riemannian structure, and that the convergence of...

The North American OpenMath Initiative (NAOMI) is a recently formed organization to promote, develop, and implement the OpenMath standard in North America. NAOMI held its first workshop in Vancouver this February, and launched full-scale operations.

It is possible to solve the problem of time for spherically symmetric spacetimes by the use of hypertime variables. This leads to functional Schrödinger equations in the quantum theory. The possible use of this approach in numerical studies of quantum gravity is discussed.

We consider a parabolic-like systems of differential equations involving geometrical quantities to examine uniformization theorems for two- and three-dimensional closed orientable manifolds. We find that in the two-dimensional case there is a simple gauge theoretic flow for a connection built from a Riemannian structure, and that the convergence of...

Recent work on an approach to the geometrodynamics of cylindrical gravity waves in the presence of interacting scalar matter fields, based on the Kucha\v{r} hypertime formalism, is extended to the analogous spherically symmetric system. This produces a geometrodynamical formalism for spherical black holes and wormholes in which the metric variables...

The Kucha\v{r} canonical transformation for vacuum geometrodynamics in the presence of cylindrical symmetry is applied to a general non-vacuum case. The resulting constraints are highly non-linear and non-local in the momenta conjugate to the Kucha\v{r} embedding variables. However, it is demonstrated that the constraints can be solved for these mo...

The embedding variable approach to geometrodynamics advocated in work by Isham, Kuchař, and Unruh are investigated for a general class of coordinate conditions that mirror the Isham–Kuchař Gaussian condition, but allow for arbitrary algebraic complexity. It is found that the same essential structure present in the ultralocal Gaussian condition is r...

A generalized version of Gowdy T3 spacetime is studied and a proposal for an approximation scheme made that allows for some study of its quantum behavior in the Hartle-Hawking prescription. The system is reduced in freedom to an infinite-parameter midisuperspace model and the reduced system is analyzed. The measure choice turns out to be difficult....

A generalized version of Gowdy T^3 spacetime is studied and a proposal for an approximation scheme is made that allows for some study of its quantum behavior in the Hartle-Hawking prescription. The system is reduced in freedom to an infinite-parameter midisuperspace model and the reduced system is analyzed. The measure choice turns out to be diffic...

Is it feasible for middle school students to use component-oriented software t o ols to construct their own mathematical explorations and experiments? In order to explore the potential of a new constructive educational technology for mathemat-ics, a program of guided c ollaboration between middle school students on Bowen Island near Vancouver Canad...

Is it feasible for middle school students to use component-oriented software for the construction of their own learning resouces? In order to explore the potential of a new technology, a program of guided c ol-laboration between students at Bowen Island near Van-couver Canada and researchers at Simon Fraser Uni-versity was established. Bridging met...

Internet technology has already produced large changes in the way that we do mathematical science: Collaborative projects are now coordinated via electronic mail, and in most sciences, initial publication is via online preprint archives. The present technology for true one-to-one collaboration, however, is expensive and difficult to manage, thus li...