MDRS Crew 40
Mona Lisa Project - May 1 - 14, 2005

The crew of the Mars Desert Research Station rotates every 2 weeks. These are the scientists and engineers who live and work on site within the MDRS. They explore all of the facets of human exploration in a simulated Mars environment. The MDRS will be active for a 7 month period.

Name	Speciality
Anne Pacros	Commander
Sheryl Bishop	Psychosociologist, Health and Safety Officer
Natalie Cutler	Chief Engineer
Christyne Legault	Education and Outreach Specialist
Cecile Sainte Marie	Assistant Engineer and Geologist
Tiziana Trabucchi	Geologist

Anne Pacros	Anne Pacros was born in France and has been interested in human spaceflight since high school. Her dream is to be an astronaut some day! After her undergraduate studies in Engineering at Ecole Centrale Paris, France, she obtained a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then she started her professional life back in France at Snecma Moteurs, working on VINCI, the future upper stage engine for the Ariane 5 rocket. She joined the French Chapter of the Mars Society ("Planète Mars"). In the summer of 2004, she participated in the International Space University Summer Session, which was actually a Winter Session since it was held in Adelaide, Australia. That is where Mona Lisa was born! In January 2005, Anne left Snecma Moteurs to go work at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. She now works in the International Space Station Utilization Division where she is coordinating the scientific projects in the field of Fluid Physics and Heat Transfer. As such, she was given the opportunity to participate in a parabolic flight campaign. In terms of extra-curricular activities, she holds a private pilot's licence and enjoys sports (judo, basketball, scuba diving) and dancing. She is also (trying to) sing in a choir and in a rock band!
Sheryl Bishop	Sheryl Bishop, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Social Psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, curriculum director for the new Space Life Sciences Ph.D. and a faculty of the International Space University. Dr. Bishop has investigated human performance and group dynamics in numerous extreme environments, including deep cavers, mountain climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditioners and Antarctic winter-over groups and various simulations of isolated, confined environments for space. She is a founding member of HPEE serving as Senior Editor for the Journal, as well as a Contributing Editor for Life Sciences for Habitation (formerly the Journal of Life Support and Biospheric Sciences) and Review Editor for the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.
Natalie Cutler	Natalie Cutler is a mechatronics engineer, with qualifications from the University of Melbourne. After graduation Natalie joined The Boston Consulting Group as a management consultant where she provided financial analysis and strategy advice to a range of Australian businesses. After two years in this role, she returned to aerospace engineering field, which was always her primary interest. Natalie currently works at BAE Systems Australia as a design engineer for the Nulka Naval Decoy. She is a member of the Mars Society Australia and part of the MarsSkin team, working to develop an analogue MCP (Mechanical Counter Pressure) space suit for Mars exploration simulations.
Christyne Legault	In all my years of teaching, promoting science, particularly space science, has always been near and dear to my heart. Since October 2003, I've been in charge of developing a science awareness project at École des métiers de l'aérospatiale de Montréal. This Canada-wide project integrates 11 fields of science in a space station simulator whose state-of-the-art equipment enables students and teachers to learn about the specificities of space science in a unique environment. The space station is built in a 60 foot trailer and can welcome 30 students at a time for a one-day mission. Finally, in the summer of 2004, I was among 10 Canadians to receive a degree from International Space University. I take great pleasure in sharing my knowledge of space science with students and teachers and helping them see how exciting a career in science can be!
Cecile Sainte Marie	I am a young Engineer in Chemistry and Physics, looking for a job, someone interested ? ;))) When I was a child, my mother told me I would be an Engineer on Mars, she was not that wrong ! at least for the two first weeks of May 2005 at the MDRS. I have a passion for astronomy and space observation, in particular for Mars, since I was a child. The recent discoveries about Mars highly fascinate me. I wish to be involved in the space exploration adventure, through my work and/or through the "Planète Mars" association, the French chapter of the Mars Society. I love travelling, especially to very cold places (Utah isn't North of the Arctic Circle ?!?!?). In Mona Lisa, I am the Geology Engineer. Though I am not a Geologist through my formation, I am highly interested in geology and particularly in volcanology. I feel honoured to be part of the Mona Lisa all-female crew!
Tiziana Trabucchi	Tiziana Trabucchi was born in Milan, Italy. She is a geology student at the University of Pavia. During the years she has worked for a geotechnical company based in Milan by collecting inclinometric data in various locations, she has also worked as a volounteer in the petrographic division of the Natural History Museum of Milan where she has helped for a few years in completing the classification of thin sections; in addition to this she also participated to some palaeontological excavations conducted in the mountains of Lombardia where a lot of fossils belonging to the triassic period were found. In Milan she attended a diagnostic for building restoration course and after that she participated to two stages organized by a company involved in the same field; she went on working for this company by conducting a series of studies and analysis to understand the degradation of the natural materials used in the construction of some ancient Italian monuments. She then followed her husband Marco to the Flemisch part of Belgium where they happily lived for three years; during this period of time she took a course on diamond grading and identification in Antwerp, the diamond trading world capital. She is fascinated (beside the possibility of discovering life outside our planet and its historical, philosophical and theoretical consequences), by the study of planetary inorganic materials and by the idea that with space exploration new materials could be discovered and this would then lead to new technological advances. She likes a lot travelling around the world, she loves music, animals (she is the proud owner of two beautiful cats), she is intrigued by the restoration of historical houses where she also takes care of their interior design, last but not least she is a passionate reader of Stephen J. Gould books,