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| education = B.A., [[Biology]], [[Brown University]]; M.S., Space Studies, [[International Space University]]; Ph.D., [[Marine Biology]], [[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]] |
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'''Jessica Ulrika Meir''' is a [[Postdoctoral research|post-doctoral researcher]] in [[comparative physiology]] |
'''Jessica Ulrika Meir''' is a [[Postdoctoral research|post-doctoral researcher]] in [[comparative physiology]] at the [[University of British Columbia]].<ref name="Abstract">{{cite web|url=http://jap.physiology.org/content/early/2011/07/01/japplphysiol.00821.2011.abstract#aff-2|title=Point: Counterpoint "High Altitude is / is not for the Birds!"|last1=Scott|first1=Graham R.|last2=Meir|first2=Jessica Ulrika|last3=Hawkes|first3=Lucy A.|last4=Frappell|first4=Peter B.|last5=Milsom|first5=William K.|last6=Llanos|first6=Anibal J.|last7=Ebensperger|first7=German|last8=Herrera|first8=Emilio A.|last9=Reyes|first9=Roberto Victor|last10=Moraga|first10=Fernando A.|last11=Parer|first11=Julian T.|last12=Giussani|first12=Dino A.|date=July 1, 2011|publisher=[[American Physiological Society]]|accessdate=November 21, 2011}}</ref> She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of [[emperor penguin]]s in [[Antarctica]],<ref name="Science Daily">{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512083139.htm|title=Penguins continue diving long after muscles run out of oxygen|date=May 12, 2011|last=Knight|first=Kathryn|publisher=[[Science Daily|ScienceDaily LLC]]|accessdate=November 17, 2011}}</ref> and the physiology of [[Bar-headed Goose|bar-headed geese]], which are able to migrate over the [[Himalayas]].<ref name="NSF">{{cite web|url=http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=118659|title=National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Into Thin Air|last=Whiteman|first=Lily|date=February 15, 2011|publisher=[[National Science Foundation]]|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}</ref><ref name="ISNS">{{cite web|url=http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/04/15/skys-no-limit-in-high-flying-goose-chase|title=Sky's No Limit in High-Flying Goose Chase|last=Arnold|first=Carrie|date=April 15, 2011|publisher=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}</ref> She formerly worked for [[Lockheed Martin]] Space Operations as an experiment support scientist for the Human Research Facility at [[NASA]]'s [[Johnson Space Center]] (JSC) in [[Houston, Texas]].<ref name="NASA Bio">{{cite web|url=http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/space/meir.html|title=Meet Jessica Meir|work=NASA Quest |accessdate=November 19, 2011|last=Meir|first=Jessica|publisher=[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]]}}</ref> |
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==Education |
==Education== |
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Meir grew up in [[Caribou, Maine|Caribou]], a small town in northern [[Maine]] (the most northeastern city in the [[United States]]). She was active in many activities while growing up. Meir played on basketball, softball, tennis, and soccer teams, but soccer was her favorite sport. She played the flute and piccolo in concert band and the saxophone in jazz band, and participated in a variety of school clubs and organizations. After being interested in space since she was a small child, Meir was thrilled to attend [[Purdue University]]'s space camp when she was thirteen. She was certain that this would be her first concrete step toward a future career in the [[space industry]].<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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After graduating from Brown University, Meir obtained a [[Masters of Science in Space Studies|Master of Space Studies]] degree from the [[International Space University]] in [[Strasbourg]], [[France]] in 2000.<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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Although many of her friends remained in Maine to go to college, Meir attended [[Brown University]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. She majored in [[biology]] and kept up with her interests in space as well. In the summer before her [[sophomore]] year at Brown, Meir had the opportunity to participate in the Space and Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) at [[Kennedy Space Center]] (KSC) in [[Florida]]. This was a six-week-long program, spent attending lectures on various space-related science topics, going on tours of the KSC facilities and conducting her own research project.<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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Meir also spent one of her semesters as an undergraduate student in a study abroad program in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]. With her mother coming from Sweden, and her father from [[Israel]], Meir traveled quite a bit outside the United States while growing up. This semester abroad provided her with an opportunity to live and study in a foreign country, as well as to explore her mother's home country.<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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During her senior year at Brown, Meir and a few other students decided to submit a proposal for NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities program. This program gives [[undergraduate]]s a chance to design an experiment, and if selected, fly their experiment on NASA's [[KC-135]] aircraft. By flying in a parabolic flight pattern, 20-30 second periods of [[microgravity]] (weightlessness) are created within the aircraft. This allows researchers to conduct experiments and operations in microgravity without being in space. Astronauts also use this aircraft for training. Meir's Brown team's experiment was selected, and they had the opportunity to experience microgravity for the first time.<ref name="NASA Bio"/><ref name="Brown">{{cite journal|url=http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/1660/40/|title=The Vomit Comet|last=Emery Jr.|first=C. Eugene|date=September/October 1999|journal=[[Brown Alumni Magazine]]|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}</ref> |
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After graduating from Brown University, Meir obtained a [[Masters of Science in Space Studies|Master of Space Studies]] degree from the [[International Space University]] in [[Strasbourg]], [[France]] in 2000.<ref name="NASA Bio"/><ref name="SIO Profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/Profile/jmeir|title=Meir, Jessica - SIO graduate student |date=April 15, 2008|publisher=[[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]]|accessdate=November 19, 2011}}</ref> The year-long program offers a multidisciplinary education, ranging from law to politics, life sciences, and engineering, all from the space perspective. Meir spent the year learning about space with students from over 20 different countries. She also had the opportunity to experience microgravity again that year, this time on [[CNES]]'s (the French Space Agency) [[Airbus A300|A-300]] aircraft as an assistant researcher and subject in a study on [[echocardiography]] [[doppler beaming|doppler]].<ref name="NASA Bio"/> Meir's [[thesis]] topic for her master's degree was "Autonomous lunar transport vehicle: providing a link for scientific research".<ref name="SIO Profile"/> |
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== NASA career == |
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Meir worked for three years at [[NASA]]'s [[Johnson Space Center]] (JSC) in [[Houston, Texas]].<ref name="Antarctica"/> She worked for [[Lockheed Martin]] Space Operations as an experiment support scientist for the Human Research Facility at the [[NASA]] [[Johnson Space Center]] (JSC) in [[Houston, Texas]]. Meir coordinated and supported human space life science experiments that were performed by [[astronaut]]s on [[space shuttle]] and [[International Space Station]] (ISS) missions. These experiments included physiological studies (bone loss, muscle control/atrophy, lung function, etc.) to determine if any bodily processes were altered in the spaceflight environment. Meir guided these experiments through the necessary review cycles, developed procedures that the astronauts would use on-orbit, trained crew members, and provided ground support in the Mission Control Center while the astronauts were performing the experiments on the shuttle or ISS.<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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[[File:Meir and Hill.jpg|thumbnail|right|Meir with fellow [[NEEMO#NEEMO 4: September 23–27, 2002|NEEMO 4]] aquanaut [[Paul Hill (flight director)|Paul Hill]].]] |
[[File:Meir and Hill.jpg|thumbnail|right|Meir with fellow [[NEEMO#NEEMO 4: September 23–27, 2002|NEEMO 4]] aquanaut [[Paul Hill (flight director)|Paul Hill]].]] |
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In September 2002, Meir served as an [[aquanaut]] on the joint NASA-[[NOAA]] [[NEEMO#NEEMO 4: September 23–27, 2002|NEEMO 4]] expedition (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), an exploration research mission held in [[Aquarius (laboratory)|Aquarius]], the world's only [[Underwater habitat|undersea research laboratory]], four miles off shore from [[Key Largo]]. Meir and her crewmates spent five days [[saturation diving]] from the Aquarius habitat as a [[Human analog missions|space analogue]] for working and training under extreme environmental conditions. The mission was delayed due to [[Hurricane Isadore]], forcing [[National Undersea Research Center]] managers to shorten it to an underwater duration of five days. Then, three days into their underwater mission, the crew members were told that [[Hurricane Lili|Tropical Storm Lili]] was headed in their direction and to prepare for an early departure from Aquarius. Fortunately, Lili degenerated to the point where it was no longer a threat, so the crew was able to remain the full five days.<ref name="history"/><ref name="four"/> |
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At the time of NEEMO 4, Meir was leaning toward pursuing a [[PhD]] in a field related to [[evolutionary biology]] and/or life in [[extreme environment]]s ([[astrobiology]]). She was also fascinated by [[marine biology]] (which suited the [[NEEMO]] mission well), and hoped to coordinate a specific topic of study to combine these main interests.<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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Meir was a semi-finalist for selection as a member of [[NASA Astronaut Group 20]].<ref name="Spacefacts">{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/candidates/nasa20/english/meir_jessica.htm|title=Biographies of Astronaut and Cosmonaut Candidates: Jessica Meir|date=March 27, 2010|publisher=[[Spacefacts]]|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> |
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==Comparative physiology research== |
==Comparative physiology research== |
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⚫ | Meir earned a Ph.D. from the [[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]]. |
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⚫ | Meir earned a Ph.D. from the [[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]]. Her Ph.D. research involved the diving physiology of [[emperor penguin]]s and [[northern elephant seal]]s.<ref name="Earthguide">{{cite web|url=http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/elephantseals/|title=Elephant Seals - Earthguide|last=Yasuda|first=Memorie|date=July 6, 2011|publisher=Scripps Institution of Oceanography|accessdate=November 19, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Kids">{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/04/secrets-of-the-world%E2%80%99s-extreme-divers/|title=Secrets of the world's extreme divers | Science News for Kids|last=Kwok|first=Roberta|date=April 24, 2011|publisher=[[Society for Science and the Public|Science News for Kids]]|accessdate=November 19, 2011}}</ref> Meir spent time in Antarctica at a site called Penguin Ranch furthering her research into the diving abilities of the emperor penguin, [[scuba diving]] alongside the penguins under the ice.<ref name="Kids"/> She also studied elephant seals while they were diving in the [[Pacific Ocean]] off [[Northern California]].<ref name="Kids"/> |
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Meir's current research involves [[Bar-headed Goose|bar-headed geese]], which are able to tolerate extreme altitudes and low oxygen levels while flying over the [[Himalayas]].<ref name="Profile"/><ref name="NSF"/><ref name="ISNS"/><ref name="Kids"/><ref name="Mother Goose">{{cite web|url=http://www.livescience.com/14091-modern-mother-goose-attempts-unravel-flight-bar-headed-goose.html|title=Modern "Mother Goose" Attempts to Unravel the Flight of the Bar-Headed Goose | LiveScience|last=Whiteman|first=Lily|date=May 10, 2011|publisher=LiveScience|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> Meir traveled to the [[Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park]] in [[Scotland Neck, North Carolina]] so that the geese who would become her experimental subjects could [[Imprinting (psychology)|imprint]] on her after their hatching.<ref name="NSF"/><ref name="ISNS"/><ref name="Mother Goose"/> Meir plans to conduct [[Wind tunnel|wind-tunnel]] experiments with the geese to simulate the low-oxygen conditions of their flight paths over the Himalayas and learn more about their adaptation to high altitudes.<ref name="Profile"/><ref name="NSF"/><ref name="ISNS"/><ref name="Kids"/><ref name="Mother Goose"/> In 2009, Meir was awarded a [[National Science Foundation]] International Research Post-doctoral Fellowship for this work.<ref name="Profile"/><ref name="Fellowship">{{cite web|url=http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0855669|title=Award#0855669 - International Research Fellowship Program: Hypoxia-tolerance in the High Flying Bar-headed Goose|author=National Science Foundation|date=June 6, 2009|publisher=National Science Foundation|accessdate=November 19, 2011}}</ref> |
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Meir's current research involves [[Bar-headed Goose|bar-headed geese]], which are able to tolerate extreme altitudes and low oxygen levels while flying over the [[Himalayas]].<ref name="NSF"/><ref name="ISNS"/><ref name="Kids"/><ref name="Mother Goose">{{cite web|url=http://www.livescience.com/14091-modern-mother-goose-attempts-unravel-flight-bar-headed-goose.html|title=Modern "Mother Goose" Attempts to Unravel the Flight of the Bar-Headed Goose | LiveScience|last=Whiteman|first=Lily|date=May 10, 2011|publisher=LiveScience|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> |
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Meir is a member of the science advisory board of [[Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation]].<ref name="Globe and Mail">{{cite news|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/extreme-trekkers-citizen-scientists/article2036774/|title=Extreme trekkers, citizen scientists|last=D'Aliesio|first=Renata|date=May 26, 2011|journal=[[The Globe and Mail]]|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Board">{{cite web|url=http://www.adventureandscience.org/science-advisory-board.html|title=Science Advisory Board - Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation|publisher=[[Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation]]|accessdate=November 21, 2011}}</ref> Through that organization, she is hoping to establish a survey of bar-headed geese in the Himalayas to be carried out by adventurers and [[Sherpa people|Sherpas]].<ref name="Globe and Mail"/><ref name="ASC">{{cite web|url=http://www.adventureandscience.org/bar-headed.html|title=Bar-Headed - Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation|publisher=Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation|accessdate=November 20, 2011}}</ref> |
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Meir is a member of the science advisory board of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation.<ref name="Globe and Mail">{{cite news|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/extreme-trekkers-citizen-scientists/article2036774/|title=Extreme trekkers, citizen scientists|last=D'Aliesio|first=Renata|date=May 26, 2011|journal=[[The Globe and Mail]]|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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Meir has a private pilot's license, and also skydives. Meir enjoys scuba diving, hiking, skiing, playing soccer, softball and other sports, traveling and studying foreign languages.<ref name="NASA Bio"/> |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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* [http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/meir homepage] |
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* [http://womeninantarctica.com/portraits/jessica.html Youtube: Portraits of Women Working in Antarctica] |
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* [http://penguinranch.blogspot.com/ Penguin Ranch blog] |
* [http://penguinranch.blogspot.com/ Penguin Ranch blog] |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUetsnURVk |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUetsnURVk Youtube: Meir in Antarctica] |
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* [http://science360.gov/obj/video/6e368bab-5612-4fc3-9a1c-a55b80bcab42 Video of Meir with bar-headed geese] |
* [http://science360.gov/obj/video/6e368bab-5612-4fc3-9a1c-a55b80bcab42 Video of Meir with bar-headed geese] |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Post-doctoral researcher |
Employer | University of British Columbia |
Jessica Ulrika Meir is a post-doctoral researcher in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia.[1] She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica,[2] and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas.[3][4] She formerly worked for Lockheed Martin Space Operations as an experiment support scientist for the Human Research Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.[5]
Education
After graduating from Brown University, Meir obtained a Master of Space Studies degree from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France in 2000.[5]
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Meir_and_Hill.jpg)
Comparative physiology research
Meir earned a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her Ph.D. research involved the diving physiology of emperor penguins and northern elephant seals.[6][7] Meir spent time in Antarctica at a site called Penguin Ranch furthering her research into the diving abilities of the emperor penguin, scuba diving alongside the penguins under the ice.[7] She also studied elephant seals while they were diving in the Pacific Ocean off Northern California.[7]
Meir's current research involves bar-headed geese, which are able to tolerate extreme altitudes and low oxygen levels while flying over the Himalayas.[3][4][7][8]
Meir is a member of the science advisory board of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation.[9]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- ^ Scott, Graham R.; Meir, Jessica Ulrika; Hawkes, Lucy A.; Frappell, Peter B.; Milsom, William K.; Llanos, Anibal J.; Ebensperger, German; Herrera, Emilio A.; Reyes, Roberto Victor; Moraga, Fernando A.; Parer, Julian T.; Giussani, Dino A. (July 1, 2011). "Point: Counterpoint "High Altitude is / is not for the Birds!"". American Physiological Society. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
- ^ Knight, Kathryn (May 12, 2011). "Penguins continue diving long after muscles run out of oxygen". ScienceDaily LLC. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ^ a b Whiteman, Lily (February 15, 2011). "National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Into Thin Air". National Science Foundation. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ a b Arnold, Carrie (April 15, 2011). "Sky's No Limit in High-Flying Goose Chase". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ a b Meir, Jessica. "Meet Jessica Meir". NASA Quest. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ Yasuda, Memorie (July 6, 2011). "Elephant Seals - Earthguide". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Kwok, Roberta (April 24, 2011). "Secrets of the world's extreme divers". Science News for Kids. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
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: Text "Science News for Kids" ignored (help) - ^ Whiteman, Lily (May 10, 2011). "Modern "Mother Goose" Attempts to Unravel the Flight of the Bar-Headed Goose". LiveScience. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
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: Text "LiveScience" ignored (help) - ^ D'Aliesio, Renata (May 26, 2011). "Extreme trekkers, citizen scientists". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 10, 2012.