Senior Gilbert Canton is from Belize City, Belize. An active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he is a recipient of the Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, the IGTI Research Scholarship, and the Minority Scholar Award.
Canton also enjoys intramural sports.
Already the exploration of Mars has begun with the Voyager missions taking pictures of the planets surface and eventually landing on the Martian surface. Further exploration of Mars including longer unmanned missions and eventually manned missions is a goal that NASA is working towards. In order to make these longer missions possible methods of decreasing the launch mass of mission vehicles must be developed. One technology that in theory will significantly decrease the launch mass is In Situ Production of the chemicals needed for life support systems and rocket fuel. This project researches and then models different ways of producing oxygen, methane, and water using carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and hydrogen imported form earth.