About the Authors
Pamela J. Baskin graduated with her B.A. in biological sciences from the
University of Houston, Clear Lake, in 1997. She is currently working on her mas-
ter’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology at the University of Houston,
Clear Lake. She serves as the Lead Research Coordinator in the Behavioral
Health and Performance (BHP) research area at JSC and also serves as the Human
Research Program Analog Project Coordinator. She has assisted in the coordi-
nation of BHP’s involvement with three NASA Extreme Environment Mission
Operations (NEEMO) missions. She is currently assisting with the coordination of
BHP’s involvement in the 2008 Haughton-Mars Project and the 105-Day Russian
Chamber Study. She can be reached at [email protected], telephone 281-
212-1360, or at Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group, 1290 Hercules
Drive, Houston, TX 77058.
Sheryl L. Bishop graduated with her B.A. in psychology from the University
of Texas at San Antonio in 1982 and her Ph.D. in social psychology from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1989. She joined the faculty of the School of
Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston in 1992
as a biostatistician. In 1995, she joined the School of Medicine at UTMB as a
member of the departments of Health and Safety Services, Family Medicine, and
eventually Preventive Medicine and Community Health, where she served as the
academic coordinator for graduate programs. She advanced to associate professor in
2000 and has been instrumental in the development of the NASA/UTMB Space
Medicine Fellowship, the Aerospace Medicine Residency program, and the Space
Life Sciences Ph.D. curriculum. Bishop returned to the School of Nursing as gradu-
ate faculty and senior biostatistician in 2007. She is also a full faculty member at the
International Space University, Strasbourg, France, contributing to the Summer
Session Program since 1994 and the Master’s of Space Science Program since its
inception. Since 1990, Bishop has investigated human performance and group
dynamics in teams in extreme environments, including deep cavers, mountain
climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditioners, and Antarctic winter-over
groups, and in numerous simulations of isolated, confined environments for