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DR. SARAH JANE PELL
Sarah Jane Pell, Ph.D. is currently an Adjunct Lecturer, School of
Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia (2007). She
is also a commercial diver, a Society for Underwater Technology
member,
and internationally regarded artist/aquanaut and human factors
researcher.
Sarah Jane is currently preparing her postdoctoral research: "Sub
Culture:
Weightless Environment Training (WET) and Immersive Architectures
extending Human Performance Behaviour in Extreme Environments" which
proposes to build on research of the relationship between
technological innovation, advanced life support, human factors
research, and aesthetic practices to propose innovative design
solutions and protocol that prepare for, and improve, the quality of
life for humans in extreme environment habitats.
In addition to her homoaquatica research, Sarah Jane has lectured,
published and exhibited internationally, while participating widely
in
art and science outreach, education and media
activities.
She has presented work at NASA, ESA, ASSC, AIDC, Space Soon, and IAC
on
the philosophical and ethical implications of Mars/Moon habitat,
presenting innovative advanced life support and human factors
architectures and proposing mission architectures for long duration
space habitats, and their analogues.
Sarah Jane holds a PhD (2005) on Aquabatics: Human performance,
behaviour
and limits underwater from Edith Cowan University; Masters of Human
Movement from Victorian University of Technology (1998) and ADAS2
Commercial Diver Accreditation, The Underwater Centre, Fremantle
(2002).
As the 2004 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholar, she became a
Reader at Nottingham Trent University, UK (2004); and a collaborative
associate to SymbioticA: the Art & Science laboratory, School of
Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia (2003-5).
She
also attended the SSP06 at the International Space University,
Strasbourg France (2006) where she became the lead presenter
/ coauthor of
Luna Gaia: a closed loop habitat for the Moon: a joint
study between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
and the International Space University (ISU) for the establishment of
a long duration Lunar Habitat.
Sarah Jane provided strategic support to Lloyd Godson, National
Geographic BioSub man amphibious habitat Australia in 2006 and hopes
to produce the DVD documentary of the historic FMARS Mars Analogue
Mission of 2007.
In 2008, she will be involved in a five-month Mars analogue study in
Finland and lead workshops in the Arctic onboard the Theme & Quark
Expeditions to the North Pole mid year for the complete Solar Eclipse
(approx 1 Aug).
Sarah Jane is actively involved in the preservation of Australian
waterways
and Aboriginal sacred sites and contributes to discussions on the
issues of global air, water and ocean quality. She currently
coordinates Anti-Poverty week activities in the State of Western
Australia and is making recommendations for the historic first draft
of the Human Rights Act to be billed in Parliament in
2007/8.
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