Thursday, August 11, 2011

The San Mateo Community Colleges Foundation

An important supporter of the SMART Project this summer was the San Mateo Community Colleges Foundation. I personally thank them for all of their support; it was tremendous and instrumental in the success of our budget this field season. Their mission statement includes promoting student success and program innovation, both of which they actively did for SMART, and because of their support, I and the SMART Project were successful this summer at the Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island, High Arctic.

http://www.smcccfoundation.org/

This information is directly from their site:

About San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation

The mission of San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation is to promote student success and program innovation by providing special financial support for Cañada College in Redwood City, College of San Mateo and Skyline College in San Bruno.

It is due to the ongoing generosity of donors since the Foundation’s inception in 1966 as a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, that thousands of students have attended college and realized a better life than they ever imagined.

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Telescopic Pursuits

College of San Mateo student, San Mateo County Astronomical Society member, and Mars Institute intern Luis Alvarez (right) with Dr. Pascal Lee, planetary scientist at the Mars Institute and the SETI Institute, and director of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) holding the SMART (San Mateo Arctic Research Telescope) project's banner in front of the HMP's Moon-1 Humvee Rover on Devon Island, High Arctic. The Moon-1 recently completed the Northwest Passage Drive Expedition and reached the HMP Research Station via Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, where the SMART will be established. (Photo Mars Institute/Haughton-Mars Project/H. Bortman)

Robotic Pursuits

College of San Mateo student and Mars Institute intern Luis Alvarez (left) with MDA Information Systems, Inc. lead engineer Sean Dougherty with the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP)'s Moon-1 and Mars-1 Humvee Rovers and the MDA robotic arm mounted on the Moon-1. Luis participated in a field experiment led by planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee, Director of HMP, to investigate the future use of robotic arms by astronauts for sampling asteroids, the Moon, and Mars from pressurized exploration vehicles. (Photo Mars Institute/NASA/Haughton-Mars Project/P. Lee).

GeoTechnical Pursuits

Dr. Kris Zacny of Honeybee Robotics with College of San Mateo student and Mars Institute intern Luis Alvarez during the geotechnical survey of terrain types at and around the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, High Arctic. Kris is seen holding the dynamic cone penetrometer used for the study. The survey is part of the "Robotic Follow-up Experiment" led by Principal Investigator Dr. Maria Bualat of NASA Ames Research Center and funded by NASA's Moon and Mars Analog Missions Activities (MMAMA) Program. (Photo Haughton-Mars Project- 2011/Pascal Lee).