Psychology of Space Exploration
an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He has received
the highest awards for scientific contributions from the Canadian Psychological
Association and the International Society of Political Psychology, as well as the
Antarctica Service Medal of the National Science Foundation and the Zachor
Award of the Parliament of Canada for contributions to Canadian society. He has
served on many advisory and consultative committees in the United States and
Canada and has chaired the Canadian Antarctic Research Program and the Life
Sciences Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency.
Suedfeld can be reached at [email protected], telephone 604-822-5713, or
at the Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, 2136 West
Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Michael H. Trenchard graduated with his B.S. in meteorology from Texas
A&M University in 1973 and his M.S. in meteorology/climatology from Texas
A&M. He has worked as a government contractor in the fields of meteorology
and remote sensing in various NASA remote sensing programs at both Johnston
Space Center and Stennis Space Center, with an emphasis on agricultural and
commercial applications. Since 1995, he has worked in Crew Earth Observations
supporting both the Shuttle and International Space Station Programs. Activities
have included weather satellite imagery interpretation for on-orbit operations in
crew photography; crew training in weather- and climate-related observations from
space; and, more recently, the cataloging and interpretation of high-resolution,
hand-held imagery acquired by crews with digital camera systems. He is a member
of the American Meteorological Society and may be reached at mike.trenchard-1@
nasa.gov, telephone 281-483-5333.
Douglas A. Vakoch received his B.A. in religion from Carleton College, his
M.A. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Notre Dame, and
his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at
Stony Brook. After finishing his predoctoral clinical internship in health psychol-
ogy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital and Clinics, he completed
a National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of
Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Following this fellowship, Vakoch joined the