Stephen A Daire | John Hopkins University (original) (raw)

International Space Development Conference, 2019

Slide 1 Bio: Hello everyone, my name is Stephen, as a brief on my background I am an Eagle S... more Slide 1

Bio:

Hello everyone, my name is Stephen, as a brief on my background

I am an Eagle Scout Association Lifetime Member, Vigil Honor of the Order of the Arrow, Explorer’s Club Member – Fellowship Applicant, instructor with the International Institute of Astronautic Studies (IIAS), lifetime member of the Association of Spaceflight Professionals, & a research cave diver.

International fieldwork from 2014 - 2018 primed me to needs, potentials, limitations, and externalities in systems engineering, contingency planning, emergency response, spatial cognition, crew resource management, life support systems operations, & technical reporting in surveying, geoarchaeology, and remote sensing.

In 2014, a 3-month University of Montana Yellowstone-to-Yukon research trek & Rutgers University Scuba courses catalyzed my geophysics, hyperbaric medicine, & underwater archaeology interests.

In 2015, I completed an Evolutionary Medicine graduate certificate and a Bachelor of Science in Evolutionary Anthropology with Rutgers focusing on Zoopharmacognosy (zoological self-medication via diet), lithic maritime activity, and environmental-genetic coevolution.

My Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIST) experiences began in the Rutgers Paleoenvironmental Research Laboratory as a graduate research assistant focusing on the Turkana Basin and human evolution over 2 million year ago.

Countless hours in training dives along with >200 submerged hours in various underwater overhead environments with Rutgers, Nautical Archaeology Society, American Academy of Underwater Sciences, National Geographic Society projects, PADI Divemaster Candidacy, and personal projects have furnished my skills in survey, rescue, recovery, & excavation operations utilizing dry-suit, nitrox, lasers, photogrammetry, & sidemount lifesupport diving experiences to handle unknow unknows on-the-fly while conducting EVA analog fieldwork minus the EMU.

Ms. Emery Nolasco and I co-founded Protean GIST Solutions in 2018 focusing aquanautic-to-astronautic research on Earth for technological engineering, design, and methods for human exploration and development of space (HEDS).

My research in 3D remote sensing cartography of underwater caves utilizes photogrammetry, laser scanning, digital elevation modeling, crew management synchronicity, and non-linear optics indexing which has translated my University of Southern California Master of Science thesis into planetary science & technology analog research, P-STAR for short into courses, materials, tools, and methods for astronautic fieldwork technologies and applications. These works have lead to production of chapters in the Handbook of Life Support Systems & Extraterrestrial Environments on various topics.

My presentation is EVAs & Cave Diving: The Next Generation of Human Development & Exploration of Space

PSTAR proving grounds for development of short and long-term

1. Mission planning,
2. Crew Resource Management,
3. Remote Sensing & Robotic Technologies
4. Human Factors Dynamics & Ergonomics
5. And applications Developments.

extend from subaquatic-subterranean exploration.

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Science has observed:
Most of the known universe has been observed with 13.8 billion years Cosmic Background Radiation but
95% of Earth’s oceans remain unexplored
3) 99% of Earth’s caves remain unexplored
4) 100% of extraplanetary caves remain unexplored

Underwater caves provide unique research datasources & providing grounds to understand our planet through analogies.

One analogy is between halocline (salt-fresh water mixing) & Polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) dynamics and effects on imaging equipment.

Subaquatic PSTAR is critical to HEDS AST for L2M success for several reasons, much like Sealab -> Skylab did 50 years ago, and as Mars Desert Research Station does now, Cavelab will extend with in the immediate future.

We know too little about our own planet, we need to play catch up on the learning curve with immediate field research.

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Global karst aquifers form 3D drainage systems underground as water dissolves minerals & stores in fractures which present cave-in hazards to many parts of the world extending from buoyant capacities, rain fall fluctuations, and changing sea-levels.

The Gulf of Mexico, particularly the Yucatan Peninsula and Florida present labyrinths karst systems, to survey it all will take more than several human lifetimes of work & robotic assistance to complete.

Researching & modeling the subterranean Chicxulub karst aquifer in situ informs climate resilience, promotes ‘Mothership’ Earth Systems Management, and promotes HEDS.

Regional remote sensing in terrestrial, karst, submarine, and aerial geophysical environmental analysis provides detailed references for potential EVA analogs for discoveries on the Moon and Mars.

NGEN ULS PSTAR surveys on Earth provide references for field studies into conditions from pre and post impact environments on the Moon and Mar, and guides Martian for settlement formation.

Laser scanning assists in real time planning to locate natural resources, plan exploratory missions related to features of interest, and improve HEDS and Earth's future.

GIST and PSTAR promotes procedures & new perspectives in environment-human-machine interactions for future AST R&D.

Improving AST for long-term human development and exploration of the solar system through utilitarian extravehicular activities (EVAs).

Survey missions have paved the way for future missions, next generation systems will go longer, farther, higher, and deeper than their predecessors and may soon locate life in the growing presence of a distinct water on the red planet.

Diving with robotic diver propulsion vehicles reduces work fatigue to reach sites, assists in setting up, while the ULS takes time & patience to deploy it provides methods of communication between the surface and subterranean teams that are out of communication.

ULS modeling is equivalent to localizing the exact point of sound origin on a single vibrating string, as all the stings of an orchestra simultaneously play.

Divers movements, chemicals in the water, vibrations of automobiles on the road above, and the physical dynamics of the ULS all interact and change the environment as it is scanned via plasma ablation this can damage microorganisms, or

By surveying these environments and producing digital terrain models (DTMs) new developments are forwarded in various fields of sciences.

The laser, ULS-200 that is about to scan the audience is safe for scanning without eye protection and provides nanometric geophysical survey details, emergency first response data in zero light conditions, and microbiological field analysis.

These star systems of silt have remained untouched by humankind for ten thousand years or more providing niches for evolution, geophysics, and exploration at the undefined edges of the map.

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A photoplethysmogram (PPG) is an optically obtained plethysmogram that can be used to detect blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue.

A PPG is often obtained by using a pulse oximeter which illuminates the skin and measures changes in light absorption.

Geophysical photoplethysmogram is a volumetric light measurements of a water filled cave cavity system flow based on changes in light detection.

These veins of the Earth hold clues to its patient history, current health, and future prognoses.

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Paleoclimatology studies assist smart cities planning for climate change resilience by studying cycles, scales, & variables in modeling current & future climate probabilities & uncertainties.

Reports, surveys, and toolkits for Working Outside of a Space Craft or Space Habitat related methodology improvements occurring in high-fidelity AST extravehicular activity (EVAs) simulations via cave diving for solution formation for Space exploration and development.

Caves provide realistic risk estimators and provide delineations for psychological and physiological standards for commercial, private, and international astronautic operations particularly in terms of point cloud analysis of natural features related to polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs).

PMCs exist on Mar in median altitudes and are growing in range & altitude on Earth from the poles towards the equator. PMCs are composed of micro-meteorites and/or volcanic glasses, & their formation began to occur after the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in the 1800s.

PMCs provide a natural model for climate change and occur in cave diving environments along haloclines. PMCs are obstacles to orbital & suborbital space launch/landing operation on Earth & Mars and require continued study to understand and depreciate their risks to missions.

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Cavelab via underwater speleology expedites HEDS R&D in extraplanetary settlement development, bioregenerative LSS, 3D printing for EVA tools, space habitat needs, & planetary protections etiquette (PPE).

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