Work Address

Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe

SETI Institute

515 N. Whisman Rd.

Mountain View, CA  94043

E-mail: dandersen@seti.org

Web: http://daleandersen.seti.org



Education

Ph.D.  McGill University, Dept. of Geography, Montreal Canada 2004

“Perennial Springs in the Canadian High Arctic: Analogs of Ancient Martian Hydrothermal Systems”

Thesis supervisor: Dr. Wayne H. Pollard.


B.S., Biology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1979.


Employment

1992-present: Principal Investigator, research scientist - Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA.

1987-1992: Principal Scientist, Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co., Washington, DC.

1983-1986: Technical Director, Environmental Technologies, Inc., Richmond, VA



Specialized Skill

  1. • Expertise of polar & scientific diving techniques; use of SCUBA and remotely operated vehicles for scientific     investigations of remote and extreme environments.

  2. •Wilderness First Aid, CPR, emergency O2 administration, anaphylaxis.

  3. •Expertise in underwater photography and videography.

  4. •Expertise of general mountaineering techniques

  5. •Editorial experience.

  6. •NOAA surface-supplied dive training by the National Undersea Research Program; Scientific Diver Training Session, University of North Carolina - Wilmington (R/V Seahawk) 1984.


Honors

  1. •Deans Honors List (Top 10%), McGill University 2004

  2. •United States Antarctic Service Medal

  3. •Fellow Member Explorers Club, FN1987

  4. •NASA Group Achievement Award, Ames Mars Exploration Telepresence/Virtual Reality Team, 1995

  5. •NASA Certificate of Appreciation for Contributions to the US/Soviet Telemedicine Space Bridge 1990

  6. •Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company, Tony Gross Award Nominee, 1991

  7. •Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts of America


Other Impacts and Professional Contributions


  1. •International Participating Member: Canadian Space Agency Astrobiology Discipline Working Group (2007-present).

  2. •External peer review for proposals for NOAA West Coast & Polar Region Undersea Research Center, NSF Division of Environmental Biology and the Norwegian Research Council.

  3. •Invited participant: NASA Planetary Protection Mars Environmental GIS (MEGIS) workshop, SETI Institute, Mt. View, CA, October 4-5, 2005.

  4. •Invited participant: Workshop on Planetary Protection and Humans on Mars, (Joint NASA-ESA/Aurora Planetary Protection programs). ESA/ESTEC, Nordwijk, Netherlands, 19-20 May 2005.

  5. •Invited panelist: NASA Administrator's Symposium, Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea, and the Stars, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA September 26-29, 2004.

  6. •Invited participant: NASA Planetary Protection “When Ecologies Collide?” workshop Pingree Park, Colorado, in June 2001.

  7. •Peer review panel member, Environmental and Space Systems Spacesuit Design and IVA/EVA Physiology - NASA Life and Biomedical Sciences and Applications Division, 1994 -1995.


Memberships in professional associations:

  1. •    American Geophysical Union

  2. •    Geological Society of America

  3. •    American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers

  4. •    American Academy of Underwater Sciences


Summary of Teaching

  1. •    Guest lecturer, Astrobiology, (EPSC 205/ANAT 205), Earth and Planetary Science, McGill University 2001-2009.

  2. •    Co-Lecturer, Global Climate Change: Past, Present, Future (Geog. 205), McGill University.

  3. •    Graduate teaching assistant: Subarctic Field Studies: Schefferville, Quebec. (Geog. 499), McGill University.

  4. •    Lecturer: Local Geographical Excursion (Geog. 290), Dept. of Geography McGill University.


Summary of Field Research

  1. 1978-82    McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Polar limnology studies

  2. 1983-86    NURP Cruise, Groundwater discharge into deep-water coral reef ecosystems

  3. 1986-87    McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Polar limnology studies

  4. 1991-92    Joint Soviet/US Expedition to the Bunger Hills, Antarctica, Polar limnology

  5. 1992-93     McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Polar limnology studies

  6. 1993-94    Telepresent ROV McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, VR technology demonstration

  7. 1994        Atacama Desert, Exobiology analog studies

  8. 1994        Siberian Arctic, Permafrost studies, exobiology

  9. 1994-95    McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Polar limnology studies

  10. 1995        Atacama Desert Exobiology analog studies

  11. 1996-97    McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Polar limnology studies

  12. 1997-98    Axel Heiberg, Ellesmere Island Exobiology analog studies

  13. 1998 - 09    Pavillion Lake, British Columbia. Deepwater microbialite studies

  14. 1998-09     2 Expeditions per year to Axel Heiberg, Ellesmere Islands Canadian High Arctic,     Exobiology Mars analog studies

  15. 2008        Lake Untersee-Schirmacher Oasis Expedition, Antarctica, Tawani Foundation,     NASA, RAE



Selected Publications in Archival Literature


32.     Thomas D. Niederberger, Nancy N. Perreault, John R. Lawrence,  Jay L. Nadeau,  Randall E. Mielke,  Charles W. Greer,  Dale T. Andersen and Lyle G. Whyte.  Novel sulfur-oxidizing streamers thriving in perennial cold saline springs of the Canadian high Arctic. Environmental Microbiology. pp.1- 14, DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01833.x. 2009.


31.      Darlene S. S. Lim1,  B. E. Laval, G. Slater, D. Antoniades, A. L. Forrest, W. Pike, R. Pieters, M. Saffari, D. Reid, D. Schulze-Makuch, D. Andersen and C. P. McKay. Limnology of Pavilion Lake, B. C., Canada – Characterization of a microbialite forming environment. Fundamental and Applied Limnology Archiv für Hydrobiologie. IN PRESS 2009.


30.        Perreault NN, Greer CW, Andersen DT, Tille S, Lacrampe-Couloume G, Lollar BS, Whyte LG., Heterotrophic and autotrophic microbial populations in cold perennial springs of the high arctic. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2008 Nov;74(22):6898-907.


29.         Perreault NN, Andersen DT, Pollard WH, Greer CW, Whyte LG., Characterization of the prokaryotic diversity in cold saline perennial springs of the Canadian high Arctic. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2007 Mar;73(5):1532-43.


28.      Andersen, D.T., Pollard, W.H., McKay, C.P., The Perennial Springs of Axel Heiberg Island as an Analogue for Groundwater Discharge on Mars. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost

University of Alaska Fairbanks. June 29–July 3, 2008, Edited by Douglas L. Kane and Kenneth M. Hinkel, Vol. 1. p. 43-48, 2008.


27.Antoniades, D., C. Crawley, M. S. V. Douglas, R. Pienitz, D. Andersen, P. T. Doran, I. Hawes, W. Pollard, and W. F. Vincent. Abrupt environmental change in Canada’s northernmost lake inferred from fossil diatom and pigment stratigraphy. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L18708, doi:10.1029/2007GL030947, 28 September 2007.


26.Perreault, N., Andersen, D.T., Pollard, W.H., Greer, C.W. and Whyte, L.G. 2007. Culture independent analyses of microbial biodiversity in cold saline perrenial springs in the Canadian High Arctic. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 73, No. 5., p. 1532–1543.


25.Omelon, C., Pollard, W. & Andersen, D., Geochemical evolution of perennial springs and the formation of travertines at Expedition Fiord in the Canadian High Arctic. Applied Geochemistry 21 (2006) 1–15.


24.Heldmann, J. L., O. B. Toon, W. H. Pollard, M. T. Mellon, J. Pitlick, C. P. McKay, and D. T. Andersen (2005), Formation of Martian gullies by the action of liquid water flowing under current Martian environmental conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 110, E05004, doi:10.1029/2004JE002261.


23.Heldman, J.L., W.H. Pollard, C.P. McKay, D.T. Andersen, and O.B. Toon, Annual development cycle of an icing deposit and associated perennial spring activity on Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 37 (1), 2005.


22.McKay, C.P., E.I. Friedmann, B. Gomez-Silva, L. Caceres-Villanueva, D.T. Andersen, and R. Landheim, Temperature and moisture conditions for life in the extreme arid region of the Atacama Desert: Four years of observations including the El Nino of 1997-98, Astrobiology, 3, 393-406, 2003.


21.McKay, C.P., K.P. Hand, P.T. Doran, D.T. Andersen, and J.C. Priscu, Clathrate formation and the fate of noble and biologically useful gases in Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 10.1029/2003GL017490, 2003.


20.Hawes I, D.T. Andersen, W. H. Pollard, Submerged aquatic bryophytes in Colour Lake, a naturally acidic polar lake. Arctic Vol. 55, No. 4. 2002.


19.Gibson, J., and D. Andersen, Physical structure of epishelf lakes of the southern Bunger Hills, East Antarctica, Antarctic Science, 14 (3), 253-262, 2002.


18.Andersen, D.T., W.H. Pollard, C.P. McKay, and J. Heldmann, Cold springs in permafrost on Earth and Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (3), 4, 2002.


17.Cogley, J.G., M.A. Ecclestone and D.T. Andersen, Melt duration on glaciers: environmental controls examined with orbiting radar, Eastern Snow Conference Proceedings, 58, 171-186, 2001.


16.Cogley, J.G., M.A. Ecclestone, and D.T. Andersen, Melting on glaciers: environmental controls examined with orbiting radar, Hydrological Processes, 15 (18), 3541-3558, 2001.


15.McKnight, D. M., E. W. Boyer. P. Doran, P.K. Westehoff, T. Kulbe, D. Andersen. Spectrofluorometric characterization of dissolved organic matter for indication of precursor organic material and aromaticity.  Limnology and Oceanography. Vol. 46, No. 1., p. 38-48, 2001.


14.Doran, P.T., R. A. Wharton, W.B. Lyons, D. J. DesMarais, D. T. Andersen. Sedimentology and Isotopic Geochemistry of a Perennially Ice-Covered Epishelf Lake in Bunger Hills Oasis, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 12 (2) 131-140, 2000.


13.Kepner, R., Jr., A. Kortyna, R.W. Wharton, Jr., P. Doran, D. Andersen, and E. Roberts, Effects of research diving on a stratified Antarctic lake, Water Research, 34 (1), 71-84, 2000.


12.Pollard, W.H., C. Omelon, D.T. Andersen, and C.P. McKay, Perennial spring occurrence in the Expedition Fiord area of Western Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 105-120, 1999


11.Andersen, D.T., C.P. McKay, and J. R. A. Wharton, Dissolved gases in perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctic Science, 10 (2), 124-133, 1998.


10.Doran, P.T., C.P. McKay, M.A. Meyer, D. T. Andersen, R.A. Wharton, Jr. and J.T. Hastings, Climatology and implications for perennial lake ice occurrence at Bunger Hills, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 8 (3):289-296, 1996.


9.Andersen, D.T., P. Doran, D. Bolshiyanov, J. Rice, V. Galchenko, N. Chernych, R.A. Wharton, Jr., C.P. McKay, M. Meyer, V. Garshnek,  A preliminary comparison of two perennially ice-covered lakes in Antarctica:  analogs of past Martian lacustrine environments. Adv. Space Res. Vol. 15, No. 3, 199-202, 1995.


8.Galchenko,V., D. Bolshiyanov, D. Andersen, N. Chernykh, Bacterial processes of photo and chemosynthesis in Bunger Hills lakes, East Antarctica “Mikrobiologija” Vol. 64, No. 5, 1995.


7.McKay, C.P., G.D. Clow, D.T. Andersen, R.A.Wharton, Light transmission and reflection in perennially ice-covered Lake Hoare, Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 99, C10, 20,427-20,444, 1995.


6.Wharton, R.A., C.P. McKay, G.D. Clow, D.T. Andersen, Perennial ice covers and their influence on Antarctic lake ecosystems, in Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Antarctic Lakes, Antarctic Res. Ser. vol. 59, edited by W. Green and E.I. Friedmann, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 53-70, 1993.


5.Wharton, R.A., C.P. McKay, G.D. Clow, D.T. Andersen, G.M. Simmons, and F.G. Love, Changes in ice cover thickness and lake level of Lake Hoare, Antarctica: Implications for local climate change, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 3503-3513, 1992.


4.Andersen, D.T., C.P. McKay, R.A. Wharton, Jr., and J. Rummel, Testing a Mars Science Outpost in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, Adv. Space Res., vol. 12 (5 )1992, p. 205-209.


3.Stoker, C.R., C.P. McKay, R. Haberle, D. T. Andersen, Science Strategy for human exploration of Mars, Adv. Space Res., vol. 12, (4) 1992.


2.Andersen, D.T., C.P. McKay, R.A. Wharton, Jr., and J. Rummel,  An Antarctic Research Outpost as a Model for Planetary Exploration. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 43, 499-504 1990.


1.Simmons, G.M., Jr., R.A. Wharton, Jr., B.C. Parker, and D.T. Andersen. Preliminary observations on chlorophyll-a and ATP Levels In Antarctic and temperate lake sediments. Microbial Ecology  9:  123 - 135, 1983.


Book chapters:

1.Doran, P.T., J.C. Priscu, W.B. Lyons, R.D. Powell, D.T. Andersen and R.J. Poreda.  2004.  Paleolimnology of extreme cold terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments.  In R. Pienitz, M.S.V. Douglas and J.P. Smol (eds).  Long-Term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.


2.McKay, C., Andersen, D., Pollard, W.H., Heldmann, J., Doran, P., Fritsen, C., Priscu, J., (2004) Polar Lakes, Streams, and Springs as Analogs for the Hydrological Cycle on Mars. In Water on Mars and Life, edited by T. Tokano, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 219-233.


Conference Proceedings & Reports

1.Heldmann, J., Toon, O., McKay, C., Andersen, D., Pollard, W., (2003). High Arctic saline springs as analogues for springs on Mars. Proc. of the 8th International Permafrost Conference, Zurich, Switzerland 373-377.


2.Omelon, C.R., Pollard, W.H., Ferris, F.G., White, L, and Andersen, D. (2003). High Arctic cryptoendolithic microorganisms: ecological constraints and survival strategies in a polar desert environment. Proc. of the 8th International Permafrost Conference, Zurich, Switzerland 851- 857


3.Budkewitsch, P., D'Iorio, M.A., Vachon, P.W., Pollard, W. and Andersen, D.T. 2000. Geomorphic, Active Layer and Environmental Changes Detected in SAR Scene Coherence Images. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Circumpolar Symposium on Remote Sensing of Polar Environments, Yellowknife, NWT, June 12-14, 8p.


4.Budkewitsch, P., D'Iorio, M.A., Vachon, P.W., Andersen, D.T. & Pollard, W.H. 1999.  Sources of Phase Decorrelation in SAR Scene Coherence Images From Arctic Environments. Thirteenth ERIM International Conference on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing,  Vancouver, B.C., 1-3 March.


5.Pollard, W., Andersen, D., Vali, H., and McKay, C., and Arkani-Hamed  J. (1999) A Mars Analog Research Station (MARS) in the Canadian High Arctic. Canada in Space Exploration: The Second Canadian Space Exploration Workshop, Canada Space Agency, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. 17-21.


6.Pollard, W.,  Omelon, C., Andersen, D. and McKay, C. (1998).  Geomorphic and hydrologic characteristics of perennial springs on Axel Heiberg Island, NWT.  In: Lewkowicz, A.G. and Allard, M. (editors) Proceedings, Seventh International Permafrost Conference, Yellowknife, 2327 June, Universite Laval, Centre d'etudes nordiques, Collection Nordicana, No 57, 909914.


7.Wardell, L. J., M. T. Hamann, D. T. Andersen, 1995.  Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance studies of a unique Antarctic life form, in Unity In Diversity, edited by Strauss, M.S.; AAAS Annual Meeting And Science Innovation Exposition: The 161st National Meeting Of The American Association For The Advancement Of Science, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, February 16-21, 1995.


8.Rummel, J.D., Wharton, R. A., D. T. Andersen, C. P. McKay, Early SEI milestones - Underwater habitats and Antarctic research outposts as analogs for long duration spaceflight and lunar and Mars outposts. AIAA Space Programs and Technologies Conference Proceedings, 1992.


9.Rummel, J.D., L. Harper, D. Andersen, Exobiology, the NASA program, In Exobiology in Solar System Exploration, NASA SP 512, Edited by G. Carle, D. Schwartz, and J. Huntington, 1992.


10.Roberts, D., D. T. Andersen, C.P. McKay, R.A. Wharton, J.D. Rummel, Antarctic analogs as a testbed for regenerative life support technologies. Proceedings of 42nd IAF, International Astronautical Congress, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 5-11, 1991.


11.Stoker, C.R., C.P. McKay, R.M. Haberle and D.T. Andersen, 1990.  Mars human exploration science strategy, Report of the Ames Mars Study Project & Mars Science Workshop at NASA Ames Research Center,  30-31 Aug. 1989. NASA Conference Publication.


12.DeVincenzi, D.L., J.R. Marshall, and D. T. Andersen, 1990. Exobiology on Mars, Report of the Workshop on "Exobiology Instrument Concepts for a Soviet Mars 94/96 Mission" NASA Ames Research Center, 27-28, Feb. 1989. NASA Conference Publication.


13.Rummel, J.D., L. Harper, D. Andersen, Exobiology, the NASA program, In Exobiology in Solar System Exploration, NASA SP 512, Edited by G. Carle, D. Schwartz, and J. Huntington, 1992.


14.Wharton, R., B. Roberts, E, Chiang, J. Lynch, C. Roberts, C. Buonni, D. Andersen, Use of Antarctic analogs to support the space exploration initiative. 1990 Joint NSF-NASA publication.


15.Wharton, R. A. Jr., D. Andersen, S. Bzik, J. D. Rummel, (editors), Fourth Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life. NASA conference publication, 1990.


Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

1.Andersen, D.T., Heldmann, J. L., C. P. McKay, W. H. Pollard, H. Vali, L. Whyte, M. Zentilli, Relic and Active Cold Permafrost Springs in the Arctic as Martian Analogs, 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2005.


2.Perreault N., Andersen D.T., Pollard W.H., Greer C.W., and Whyte L.G. 2005. Microbial Biodiversity of Cold Perennial Springs in the Canadian High Arctic. Invited Speaker/Participant for the Microbial Ecology and Bioremediation in Cold Climates (MECBIO) Workshop. Kangerluusaq, Greenland, Sept. 12-16.


3.Whyte L.G., Whissel, G., Perreault N., Steven, B., Juck, D., Andersen D.T., Pollard W.H., and Greer C.W. 2005. The Canadian High Arctic as a Martian Analogue for Exobiology Investigations: Microbial Ecosystems in Unique Sites in the High Arctic. 5th Canadian Space Exploration Workshop, Canadian Space Agency, Montreal, May 12-13.


4.J.L. Heldmann, O.B. Toon, W.H. Pollard, M.T. Mellon, J. Pitlick, C.P. McKay, D.T. Andersen, Formation of Martian Gullies by the Action of Liquid Water Flowing under Current Martian Environmental Conditions, 37th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, UK. 2005.


5.Heldmann J.L., M.T. Mellon, W. H. Pollard, D.T. Andersen, C.P. McKay, The Association of Liquid Water Springs with Permafrost Regions on Earth and Mars, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.


6.Heldmann, J., Toon, O., McKay, C., Andersen, D. & Pollard, W., Cold springs in permafrost on Earth and Mars. 34th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, October 2002.


7.Andersen, D.T., W.H. Pollard, C.P. McKay, J. Heldmann, Cold Springs in Permafrost on Earth and Mars. Poster Presentation, The Third Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW3), Canada Space Agency, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec May 25-26, 2001.


8.Whyte, L., Labbé, D., Koval, S.F. Lawrence, J.R. Andersen, D.T. Pollard, W.H., Greer, C.W., Microbial composition of perennial springs in the Canadian High Arctic. Poster Presentation ISME-9, Amsterdam, August 26-31, 2001.


9.Whyte, L., Labbé, D., Koval, S.F. Lawrence, J.R. Andersen, D.T. Pollard, W. Greer, C.W. ,Microbial composition of perennial springs in the Canadian High Arctic, Poster Presentation 51st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario 2001.


10.Pollard, W.H., Andersen, D.T., Vali, H.  Omelon, C., McKay, C.P., Analogue research in the Canadian High Arctic, (Poster Presentation) The Third Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW3), Canada Space Agency, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec May 25-26, 2001.


11.C.R. Omelon, D.T. Andersen and W.H. Pollard, High arctic cryptoendoliths: ecological constraints and survival strategies in a polar desert environment. Poster Presentation, The Third Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW3), Canada Space Agency, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec May 25-26, 2001.


12.Whyte, L., Labbé, D., Koval, S.F. Lawrence, J.R. Andersen, D.T. Pollard, W. Greer, C.W., Microbial investigations of perennial saline springs in the Canadian High Arctic. Poster Presentation The Third Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW3), Canada Space Agency, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec May 25-26, 2001.


13.Andersen, D.T., W.H. Pollard, C.P. McKay, Heldmann, Cold Springs in Permafrost on Earth and Mars. AGU 2000, December 15-19, 2000, San Francisco.


14.Andersen, D.T., W.H. Pollard, C.P. McKay, Heldmann, J. Toon, B., Jakosky, B., Cold Springs in Permafrost on Earth and Mars. (Poster Presentation) In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS), Vol. 32, number 3, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, October 23-27, 2000.


15.Andersen, D.T., W.H. Pollard, H. Vali, C. Blank, C.R. Omelon, and C.P. McKay, Perennial springs in the Canadian High Arctic: analogs of ancient Martian hydrothermal systems, in: GSA 1999 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Denver, 1999.


16.Budkewitsch, P., M.A. D'Iorio, P.W. Vachon, D.T. Andersen, and W.T. Pollard, Sources of Phase Decorrelation in SAR Scene Coherence Images from Arctic Environments, in ERIM Geological Remote Sensing Conference, Vancouver, B.C., 1999.


17.Andersen, D.T., W.H., Pollard, C.P. McKay, and C. Omelon, Perennial springs in the Canadian High Arctic - analogs of past Martian liquid water habitats. Poster Presentation A.G.U. Fall meeting.  Special Session U06-Life in Extreme Environments. December 1998.


18.Andersen, D. T., C.P. McKay, P. Doran, J. Rice, R. Wharton. 1994. Analog of past Martian Environments:  The Bunger Hills, Antarctica. Fifth Exobiology Symposium and Mars Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.


19.Stoker, C. R., D. T. Andersen, 1994. From Antarctica to space:  Use of Telepresence and virtual reality in control of remote vehicles. Fifth Exobiology Symposium and Mars Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.


20.Hine, B.P., Stoker, C., Sims, M., Rasmussen, D., Hontalas, P., Fong, T., Steele, J., Barch, D., Andersen, D., Miles, E., and Nygren, E., The application of telepresence and virtual reality to subsea exploration.  The 2nd Workshop on Mobile Robots for Subsea Environments, in Proc. ROV '94, Monterey, CA, 1994.


21.Andersen, D. T., TROV, Telepresence Controlled Remotely Operated Vehicle (poster), National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 1994.


22.Andersen, D.T., P. Doran, D. Bolshiyanov, J. Rice, V. Galchenko, N. Chernych, R.A. Wharton, C.P. McKay, M. Meyer, V. Garshnek, 1992. A preliminary comparison of two perennially ice-covered lakes in Antarctica:  analogs of past Martian lacustrine environments, COSPAR, The Hague, Netherlands.


23.Andersen, D. T., C.P. McKay, R. A. Wharton, Antarctic Research Outpost as a Model for Planetary Exploration, The Case For Mars IV, Boulder Colorado, 1992.


24.DeVincenzi, D. L. and D. T. Andersen, Life in the Universe: Space Exploration Opportunities (poster), International Society for the Studies of the Origins of Life, Prague, 1989.



Education and Public Outreach

1.Andersen, D. T., Pale Blue Dot, An Earthly View of Mars, SETI Institute Explorer Magazine, Vol 2, No. 1, 2005.


2.Invited presentations regarding the search for life on Mars and beyond to Advanced Biology class (11-12 grade) and combined 6th grade at Lake Placid Middle/High School, Lake Placid, NY, January, 2005.


3.Discovery Channel Canada, 2002.  Featured guest and provided Antarctic film footage of microbial ecosystems in McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes and endolithic environments for “Microbes Rule the World”.


4.Current (2002) Arctic and Antarctic research featured on SpaceRef.com’s website at: http://www.astrobiology.com/lter/, http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=203.


5.Featured guest on The Crystal Laboratory, an episode of the PBS series The New Explorers, nationally broadcast June 1995 & 2000.


6.Underwater imagery published in National Geographic (1998), Sky and Telescope, and numerous other popular books and magazines.


7.NASA Center for Mars Exploration, Telepresence Controlled Remotely Operated Vehicle, Poster Presentation, National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA 1994.


8.Featured guest on The Santa Clara County Office of Education teleducational broadcast to Santa Clara Schools, 1994.


9.Featured guest on Land, Sea, Air Exploration in Science Series: Next Stop Antarctica, Final Destination: Mars.  Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA. 1994.


10.Featured guest on Kid Science Special: Antarctica, Above and Below the Ice, a one hour interactive science class for 5th and 6th graders produced by the Hawaii State Department of Education, Distance Learning and Technology Program.  The production is broadcast statewide to 553 classes reaching over 14, 000 students per week.  1994


11.Technical consultant for Live From Antarctica, 1994.


12.Creator and technical director, videographer and Antarctic host of Live From Other Worlds!  1994.  A series of 3 interactive educational programs which connected students throughout North America and Hawaii to scientists in Antarctica by way of voice/video and electronic mail.  The programs focused on space science, particularly the tools that future scientists will use to explore the planet Mars.  Using simple personal computers and modems, students in Virginia, California and Hawaii were allowed to drive a telepresent, remotely operated vehicle that was beneath the Antarctic sea ice.  Using the same methods, students were also able to operate state of the art robotic vehicles at NASA's Ames Research Center.  In addition, students were able to converse with Mr. Andersen while he was beneath the sea ice in 120ft of water asking questions and "diving" telepresently with him.  Curriculum guides were sent to over 2000 schools throughout the USA and computer bulletin boards were used to post questions to the Antarctic researchers and to post additional information on topics ranging from Antarctica to Mars.


13.National Air and Space Museum Telepresence Demonstration - a demonstration of telerobotics at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. during the month of November 1993.  VIP's from NASA, the Executive Branch and Legislative branch were invited to participate as well as the general public.  Participants were able to drive the telepresently operated remotely operated vehicle (TROV) as well as talk to the researchers in the Antarctic.


14.Featured guest on Life Under Ice, one of a series of weekly programs produced by NASA Public Affairs for use by radio stations nationally.  1991.


15.Creator, technical consultant and videographer for Life On Ice, Antarctica and Mars -1990.  An award winning PBS documentary filmed primarily in Antarctica that discusses the planet Mars, the origins of life and the perennially ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. Other featured guests included Steve Squyres, Christopher P. McKay, Carl Sagan, John Rummel, Robert H. Wharton, Jr. and George M. Simmons, Jr.


16.Technical consultant for the Where Next Columbus exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.  The display is focused on the subject of exploration and discovery with strong emphasis on the planet Mars and the science discipline of Exobiology.  1990.