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Program Participants and Collaborators

The CATP training experience will be considerably enhanced by the participation and opportunities presented by the collaborators on this proposal. CATP collaborators will participate in many of the CATP training elements described above including joint supervision of CATP trainees, providing training internships in their organizations, access to, and training in, their lab facilities, and access to their field analogue sites.

International collaborators on CATP include scientists from NASA Ames, NASA JPL, Princeton University, Cornell University, and U. of Arizona. Many of the CATP researchers are Foreign Collaborators on NASA Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) proposals, NASA Astrobiology Institute proposals, and Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) proposals. Thus, CATP will immediately increase the mobility of trainees between Canada and the US with its provisions for travel to collaborating US institutions.

CATP Collaborators, Institutes, and Expertises are as follows:

Canadian Collaborators:

Gordon Southam U. Western Ontario Geomicrobiology
Warwick Vincent Laval University Cryomicrobiology
Jonathan Stone McMaster University Extremophiles
Greg Dudek McGill University Robotics
Greg Matlashewski McGill University Microbiology
Lissa Matyas McGill University Professional Skills development
Roman Kruzelecky MPB Communications Instrumentation
Alain Berinstain CSA Planetary Science
Michael Daly York University Robotics/Instrumentation
Alex Ellery Carleton University Robotics/Instrumentation
Richard Leveille CSA Geomicrobiology/Biosignatures
Victoria Hipkin CSA Planetary Science

International Collaborators:

Chris Mckay NASA Ames Planetary Science
Lynn Rothschild NASA Ames Extremophiles
Carol Stoker NASA Ames Instrumentation
Henry Sun Desert Research Institute Analogues
Charles Cockell University of Edinburgh Analogues, Extremophiles
Dale Andersen SETI Analogues, Extremophiles
Jim Bell Cornell University Planetary Science, Mars
Tullis Onstott Princeton University CH4 Isotopes,
Instrumentation
Randall Mielke NASA JPL Microscopy, Instrumentation
Victor Parro Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain Extremophiles,
Astrobiology Instrumentation
Javie Gomez-Elvira Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain Robotics,
Astrobiology Instrumentation