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| HI-SEAS dome welcomes eight crew members for an eight-month stay beginning this Thursday on Mauna Loa. The goal is to simulate life confined to long-distance space exploration. See story below. Photo from HI-SEAS |
THE NEW OCEAN VIEW PETITION FOR LOCAL POLICING can be signed by area residents at Ocean View Community Center daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and also at South Point U Cart and at Kahuku Gift and Garden Shop. The petition calls for more policing in Ocean View and a new police station there.
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| The petition calls for replacing the mini station with a larger Ocean View Police Station next to the fire station. Photo by Ann Bosted |
The petition calls for the new police station to be built next to the fire station in Ocean View where communications would be better for police officers, who could file their reports without driving to Na`alehu.
Gall recommends: “The police officers should have input about the design of the new police station. Among other needs - they would require a holding cell, where suspects can be kept before being transported to Kona. The County owns property in Ocean View – I have been told they have upwards of 20 one-acre lots."
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| Community Policing Officer Aron Tomota |
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| Ron Gall, President of Ocean View Community Association |
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| Dr. Martin Luther King was remembered in the writings of Hawai`i Gov. David Ige today. Photo from Gov. Ige |
Wrote the governor: "Today, we honor the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, a mortal man with an immortal dream. Some will honor him with public service, some through quiet reflection.
"While much may have changed since the time of Dr. King, inequality remains one of the primary issues that we must work together to resolve. Dr. King once wrote that 'Life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?'
"Here in Hawai’i we believe in lifting up our fellow citizens by helping to raise the standard of living for all our residents. We have committed millions to ease the homelessness crisis and make housing affordable. We have worked to bring meaningful job opportunities to Hawai’i, jobs that pay well enough so people can live without being burdened with a life time of debt. We are 17th in the nation in personal income growth and we have the 3rd lowest unemployment rate in the country. For Dr. King economic equality was just as important as racial equality.
"I want to encourage all our citizens, as we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, to ask themselves how we can work to make our communities stronger for everyone and what can we do as individuals to make someone’s life better.
"So I would like to end with the same call to action that Dr. King made so clear that night in Memphis: 'Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.'”
"Here in Hawai’i we believe in lifting up our fellow citizens by helping to raise the standard of living for all our residents. We have committed millions to ease the homelessness crisis and make housing affordable. We have worked to bring meaningful job opportunities to Hawai’i, jobs that pay well enough so people can live without being burdened with a life time of debt. We are 17th in the nation in personal income growth and we have the 3rd lowest unemployment rate in the country. For Dr. King economic equality was just as important as racial equality.
"I want to encourage all our citizens, as we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, to ask themselves how we can work to make our communities stronger for everyone and what can we do as individuals to make someone’s life better.
"So I would like to end with the same call to action that Dr. King made so clear that night in Memphis: 'Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.'”
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| At 8,000 feet, astronaut-like crew members in the HI-SEAS dome will live together in close quarters, simulating long-distance space travel. Photo from HI-SEAS |
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HI-SEAS crew member Samuel Payler, a doctoral candidate at UK Centre for Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh. He has been involved in NASA’s BASALT program, the MINAR project and BISAL, the world’s first deep subsurface astrobiology laboratory. He has an MSci from University of Birmingham and prior to HI-SEAS was researching life in hypersaline deep subsurface environments. |
The Mission V crew has been selected, and research confirmed to study human behavior and performance in such a remote and confined environment.
The NASA-funded project, in partnership with University of Hawai`i and its Hawai`i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation - HI-SEAS, aims to help determine the individual and team requirements for long-duration space exploration missions including travel to Mars. The HI-SEAS dome is located at the 8,000 feet elevation in an abandoned quarry on Mauna Loa. There are two stories within the dome. Ground floor is 993 square feet and second floor loft is 424 square feet. Another 160 square-fee of space is created by a shipping container attached to the dome.
The NASA-funded project, in partnership with University of Hawai`i and its Hawai`i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation - HI-SEAS, aims to help determine the individual and team requirements for long-duration space exploration missions including travel to Mars. The HI-SEAS dome is located at the 8,000 feet elevation in an abandoned quarry on Mauna Loa. There are two stories within the dome. Ground floor is 993 square feet and second floor loft is 424 square feet. Another 160 square-fee of space is created by a shipping container attached to the dome.
HI-SEAS principal investigator and UH Mānoa Professor Kim Binsted said she is proud of the project’s contribution to understanding human behavior and performance in space.
“Since 2012, HI-SEAS has been contributing to NASA’s plans for long-duration space exploration. We are an international collaboration of crew, researchers and mission support, and I’m proud of the part we play in helping reduce the barriers to a human journey to Mars.”
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Joshua Ehrlich is a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin working on test and verification of the Orion European Service Module. He has a BS in aerospace engineering from University of Florida, an MS in mechanical engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Experience includes integration and testing on the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Veggie and Advanced Plant Habitat payloads at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre. |
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Ansley Barnard is an engineer from Reno, Nevada who has worked for NASA and Boeing on advanced composite structures and has designed aerodynamic bodywork for cars racing in the100th Indy 500. She has a BS in aeronautics and astronautics from University of Washington. Prior to HI-SEAS, she worked in engineering optimization for Ford Motor Company. |
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James Bevington is a freelance researcher with a passion for space. He has a BSC from the University of Tennessee, an MSc from University of Georgia and an MSc from International Space University. Prior to HI-SEAS he was a researcher at International Space University and consulted for Northwestern University. |
Daily routines include food preparation from only shelf-stable ingredients, exercise, research and fieldwork aligned with NASA’s planetary exploration expectations.
Under watchful eyes of the research team and supported by experienced mission control, the crew will participate in eight primary and three opportunistic research studies.
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Brian Ramos is a Portuguese- American with dual engineering degrees in biomedical and electrical engineering. He has a master’s degree in international space studies from International Space University. Prior to joining HI-SEAS his experience included project work at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre and Engineering World Health to repair media equipment in Rwanda. |
The primary behavioral research includes a shared social behavioral task for team building, continuous monitoring of face-to-face interactions with sociometric badges, a virtual reality team-based collaborative exercise to predict individual and team behavioral health and performance and multiple stress, cognitive countermeasure and monitoring studies.
HI-SEAS Mission V follows the successful 12-month Mission IV that was completed in August 2016. That mission placed HI-SEAS in the company of a small group of analogs capable of operating very long duration missions in isolated and confined environments similar to Mars500, Concordia and the International Space Station.
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Laura Lark grew up on a small farm in Whatcom County, Washington. She has a BS in computer science from Brown University and, prior to joining the HI-SEAS crew, she spent five years as a software engineer at Google working on search serving and indexing infrastructure. Photos from HI-SEAS |
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF HALEMA`UMA`U CRATER is the topic of After Dark in the Park at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Kilauea Theater Auditorium in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Don Swanson, a geologist with USGS makes the presentation with history and personal anecdotes about his encounter with the crater. Free. Park entrance fees apply.To read comments, add your own, and like this story, see Facebook. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter.
