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Monday, June 17, 2013

Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D

Jessica Meir
Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D


She has a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) in Marine Biology and her dissertation was titled Blood oxygen transport and depletion: they key of consummate divers.  She also has a MS from the International Space University in Space Studies as well as a BA in Biology from Brown University.  She her  Post doc research at in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia where she studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas.

Current Job: Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

 The most interesting I think Dr. Meir has been involved in is NEEMO 4, which she was a member of the NASA Aquanaut Crew. 

As for guessing the civilian astronaut's call signs' I am going to go with Penguin for Dr. Meir.

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