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Meir, Jessica

SIO Graduate Student

Degrees:

• B.A., Brown University, Rhode Island
• M.S., International Space University

Research Interests:

• Diving physiology of marine mammals and birds
• PhD thesis topic: Oxygen depletion in consummate diving animals (research focused on emperor penguins and Northern elephant seals)

Honors and Awards:

• Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholar Award, 2008-2009
• Halliday Student Field Research Award, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2007
• Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS), Los Angeles Chapter Fellowship, 2006 - present
• Dept. of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow, 2003 - 2006
• NASA JSC Space and Life Sciences Directorate Special Professional Achievement Award, 2003
• Special Recognition Award, Lockheed Martin Space Operations, 2003
• Lockheed Martin Technology Services “Lightning Award”, 2002
• NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) Aquanaut, 2002
• Employee of the Month, Lockheed Martin Space Operations, 2002
• Rhode Island Space Grant Summer Scholar, 1998
• Swedish Women’s Educational Association (SWEA) Scholar, 1998

Meir, J.U., Stockard, T.K., Williams, C.L., Ponganis, K.V., and Ponganis, P.J. 2008. Heart rate regulation and extreme bradycardia in diving emperor penguins. J. Exp. Biol, 211, 1169-1179.

Ponganis, P.J., Stockard, T.K., Meir, J.U., Williams, C.L., Ponganis, K.V., van Dam, R.P., and Howard, R. 2007. Returning on empty: extreme blood O2 depletion underlies dive capacity of emperor penguins. J. Exp. Biol., 210, 4279-4285.

Stockard, T.K., Heil, J., Meir, J.U., Sato, K., Ponganis, K.V., and Ponganis, P.J. 2005. Air Sac PO2 and oxygen depletion during dives of emperor penguins. J. Exp. Biol. 208, 2973-2980.

Meir, J. U. 2005. Emperor penguin heart rate profiles: The value of digital ECG records. Biologging 2 Conference, St. Andrews, U.K., June 13-16, 2005.

Meir, J. U. 2005. Air sac PO2 and oxygen depletion during dives of emperor penguins. American Physiological Society (APS) Conference, San Diego, CA, April 5, 2005.

Melton, S. L., Hurst, V. W., Meir, J. U., Hamilton, D. R., Jones, J. A., Sargsyan, A. E. 2003. Activation and checkout of the Human Research Facility (HRF) Ultrasound for medical contingencies on the International Space Station (ISS). Proceedings of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) 74th Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.

Grounds, D. J., Miller, G. E., Meir, J. U. 2002. Human Research Facility. Proceedings of the 8th European Symposium on Life Sciences Research in Space and the 23rd Annual International Gravitational Physiology Meeting (ed. B. Warmbein), Noordwijk: European Space Agency.

Clark, J. B., Meir, J. U. 2001. Use of the neurologic function rating scale following space shuttle flights. Proceedings of the NSBRI Bioastronautics Investigators’ Workshop, Galveston, Texas.

International Space University Master of Space Studies Class of 2000. 2000. Autonomous lunar transport vehicle: providing a link for scientific research. Strasbourg, France: International Space University.

Lee, P.H.U., Cohen, H., Goldsmith, H., Meir, J., Wong, B., Yates, L., and Greenburg, A.G. 2000. The use of the tissue adhesive DermabondTM is more effective and efficient than conventional suturing for closing incisions in microgravity. KC-135 and Other Microgravity Simulations Summary Report (CR-208924), Houston, TX: NASA.

Vandenburgh, H. H., Shanksy, J., Del Tatto, M., Lee, P., Meir, J. 1999. Tissue engineered skeletal myofibers can directly ‘sense’ gravitational force changes. Proceedings of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Space Life Sciences; Cells in Spaceflight: Past, Present, Future Workshop Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

Meir, J.U., Piastuch, W.C., Li., Y. 1997. The effects of altered gravity on auxin concentrations in tomato hypocotyls. Am. Soc. of Gravitational & Space Biology Annual Bulletin 11(1), 19.