Team: STELLAR

A lifetime San Mateo County resident, I attended and graduated from San Carlos High School. I currently reside in San Mateo California. I attended CSM and UCB where I graduated Phi Beta Kappa, in the summer of 1970. Both of my adult children are also UCB graduates. I have worked as a licensed general contractor as well as teaching at the middle school for the last 25 years. I have taught a variety of subjects at the middle school level and in addition coached wrestling for ten years. More recently I have been involved in the integration of technology into the classroom. I have served in the following capacities:

• School Site Technology Mentor 1991,1992 and 1993.
• Selected IISME (Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education)-VISION fellow 1992
• Selected IISME Summer Fellow 1994,1995,1996, 1997.(Feb-May), Employers have been Hewlett-Packard and NAS (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation) at NASA-Ames Research Center.
• Presenter at FFI IISME Fund For Innovation at Applied Biosystems Jan. 30, 1996
• Workshops and classes include Satellite Missions 650 CEA at UCB, The LASE Project.(Laser Applications in Science Education) SJS.

My stellar assignment was in the Autogenic-Feedback Training System located in the Psychophysiological Research Lab and under the direction of Dr. Cowings. This training is used as a preventative method for space motion sickness. In addition Dr. Cowings implements Autogenic-Feedback Training as a potential treatment for Orthostatic Intolerance in Aerospace Crews. Apparatus in the training include:

• The AFTS-2 (An ambulatory monitoring system worn by crew members).
• Rotating Chair
• Lower Body Negative Pressure Chamber.
  Here is a the chamber as it was used on Skylab.
  
  

During a typical training session subjects are instructed to control a pattern of physiologic responses and are given many different feedback displays, (visual and auditory) simultaneously.

AFTS has been used on three separate STS missions and Russian Mir crew members have also participated in the training. AFT has been used reliably to to increase tolerance to motion sickness during ground-based tests in over 200 men and women under a variety of conditions that induce motion sickness.

Stellar teachers are placed in dynamic areas of life science research.

Pictured below are flight crew patches from these missions:

STS-51B Challenger Spacelab 3

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Pictured above is Mae Jemison sporting the AFS-2. For more information see AFT

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Check out my Stellar Lesson Plan

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Hobbies include:

• Strength conditioning
• Traveling
• Kayaking

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