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Mars Audio Log #10 - NASA
We’re happy to share these measures. So we’ve made a lot of the measurement quite easy. We just adapted the frequency and the protocols. And we’ve also looked at other task performance, things that go into CHAPEA, like the EVAs are going to be a really critical one. So we have a whole team that’s really experienced and they’re thinking about the EVAs. And of course, EVAs is a team task. And so we’re able to come on top of what they’re thinking about and then bring our psychological expertise to the aspect of CHAPEA EVAs. And like I said, it’s a really integrated from the beginning at CHAPEA. So that new approach to integration’s really going to allow us to understand all these different push points. So we’re thinking about like the different areas of research, how they affect the other areas, and how we can do a more integrated analysis at the end of this whole thing.
Host: You take all these different aspects that you’ve been mentioning, Lauren. And really big question is that I think a lot of our listeners are thinking about is all the research that you’re doing now, all the research you’ve gathered over previous analogs, is the hope maybe that some of the things that we learn as part of this mission, as part of continued CHAPEA missions, eventually going to be to applied. Like you mentioned, like the idea of like privacy, right? Not just the specific design, but just the idea of privacy. Just things that we are learning from these analogs actually being applied to future human missions to Mars.
Lauren Blackwell Landon: Oh, absolutely., I mean, the whole point of this is to take lessons learned from this series of three missions. So we have three missions plans. This is just our first and we’re going to take all the lessons learned from these three different crews that are in there for a whole year, and then we’re going to do something with that knowledge. So it’s very applied research.
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Mars Audio Log #10 - NASA
And as you might imagine, by the end of it, they’re all really deep red from like the dust of Mars and it’s really satisfying. And we always have really good chats while we’re out there as well. So it’s kind of like double the pleasure. You get to clean something really deeply, you get to have a real good conversation while you’re doing it. And so that’s something that I love to have help from another crew member with.
CHAPEA Commander Kelly Haston collects regolith samples during an EVA, or Extravehicular Activity, inside the CHAPEA sandbox. Credit: NASA
Anca Selariu: That was my first thought when I read this question as well. The cleaning, and it’s very cathartic and it’s very relaxing. And doing this with one of the crew members has been really fun because you also get to have sort of a stream of consciousness and you have interesting conversations about things that you maybe not talk about all the time, but they come to you as you clean. It’s almost like a, yeah, like an exercising activity.
Kelly Haston: It’s true. And it’s also a different use for the room. Normally we’re sort of in and out of that room, right? Like we move through it, we kit up in there and then we move out to the surface, or we are coming back in, we’re carrying things back and forth there. But that’s actually a time where you spend like a considerable amount of time there, not just, you know, in your EVA suit or whatever. So it’s kind of with limited amount of space, it’s nice to use our different rooms for different things and gives you like a little bit of a shake it up of your routine. But Anca, there’s one other thing that I can think about that you actually do a lot with other people, and I think it’s really nice to have a crewmate help you. And that’s the garden.
Anca Selariu: Oh gosh, yes. The garden.
Reforestation Services Program | CAL FIRE
Once harvested, the cone seeds return to the Center, where staff begins the rigorous procedure of processing and laboratory testing.
About the Nursery
Located at Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center, 5800 Chiles Road, Davis, CA, the Nursery is where trees are propagated from seed we collect and are carefully grown in state-of-art greenhouses. Because growing from seed can take an entire year, the Nursery works with public and private forests to forecast where demand will be for future seasons. The need for quality seedlings is only growing.
If you are a private forestland owner or want to restore native trees on your property, the Reforestation Center offers available seedlings to both private and public forestlands.
The State Nursery
The state seed bank is a long-term seed repository stored in sub-zero freezer banks. Containing over 30,000 pounds of seed, the Seed Bank provides a wide variety of native tree species from a range of areas and elevations throughout the state. This helps restore native lands exposed to shifting climates, and rising uncertainties in the forest ecosystem.
The Seed Bank acts as protection against the threat of state-wide extinction, striving to preserve species for current and future generations of Californians. It is a vital part of reforestation’s future.
CAL FIRE’s L. A. Moran Reforestation Center is always seeking professional tree climbers for cone sampling and cone collections between July and October across the State. You must have your own liability insurance and gear. For more information, please contact the Seed Bank Manager.


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LocationsCamarillo CenterChico CenterDelta CenterFortuna CenterFresno CenterGreenwood CenterInland Empire CenterLos Piños CenterMagalia Fire CenterMonterey Bay CenterNorwalk Energy CenterPlacer CenterPomona Center with Los Angeles CenterRedding CenterSacramento Energy CenterSalinas CenterSan Diego CenterSan Luis Obispo Center – Los PadresSanta Maria CenterSiskiyou CenterSolano CenterTahoe CenterUkiah CenterVista Energy Center 
 
 

The Placer Center is nestled in a rural residential area just north of the City of Auburn in Placer County. The facility was first used by the state in the 1950s and now houses up to 100 Corpsmembers.
In 2022, a new multi-purpose building, kitchen and dormitory opened at the facility for Corpsmember use and housing. The Placer Center sits on 60 acres of land in the Sierra foothills, a short drive from Interstate 80.
The center conducts conservation work in El Dorado, Placer, Nevada, Sierra, Yuba, and Sacramento counties. The center partners with CAL FIRE to operate two year-round wildland firefighting hand crews. Four other natural resource crews focus on fuel reduction, tree planting, trail building, hazard tree removal, and culinary arts.

 

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CCC Placer Corpsmember K’veyon Ball pours water on a horse participating in the annual Tevis Cup, a 100-mile horse ride from Tahoe to Auburn. Corpsmembers volunteered their time helping the riders and horses. 

 

The Placer Center is located in an area traditionally known as “Coyote Springs” by the Maidu and Nisenan tribes of Indigenous Californians. The Maidu tribe call the central Sierra Nevada, in the watersheds of the Feather and American rivers, home. The Nisenan’s territory includes areas in and adjacent to the Placer Center including the Yuba, Bear, and American River watersheds.
Staff helps Corpsmembers find and coordinate participation in volunteer events in the Auburn and Placer County communities.
Planetary Exploration Test Facilities | Glenn Research Center | NASA
The following test rigs and facilities all fall under the mTRAX Planetary Exploration umbrella:
Simulated Lunar OPErations (SLOPE) Lab
The Simulated Lunar OPErations (or SLOPE) Lab serves to provide controlled test conditions to evaluate the tractive performance of roving vehicles on simulated Lunar and Martian terrain.  Because the lab is indoors, the facility has stable temperature and humidity levels which limits variability in soil conditions between tests.  Full-scale vehicles, or sub-systems and components, can be tested here.
Two roving vehicles traversing simulated lunar terrain in the SLOPE Lab
The lab consists of three distinct test areas:

12m x 3m x 0.3m soil tank filled with GRC-1 lunar simulant. Here, vehicles can traverse prepared lunar simulant as well as obstacles to assess performance.  A drawbar pull rig can be positioned at the end of the test bed, which applies a desired resistive force to the rover via a smart-winch system.  The tractive performance of the rover or it’s mobility components can be assessed as a function of drawbar pull force.
6m x 5m x 0.3m adjustable tilting soil tank. Using a hydraulic lift system, the tilt-bed is adjustable up to 45 degrees of inclination for sloped surface operations; however the maximum angle is typically limited by the angle of repose of the simulants in the bed.  Currently the tilt-bed is filled with GRC-1 but can be changed out to the desired granular material.
12m x 3m x 0.6m “Sink Tank”. This soil tank is twice as deep as the others and filled with a high-sinkage material called “Fillite”.  Due to its particle shape, this material mimics the wind-blown dune soil on Mars and has extremely low shear strength, which produces a very challenging trafficability case for roving vehicles.

The SLOPE lab is equipped with 32 infrared OptiTrak motion tracking cameras; 20 are mounted permanently on the walls and 12 are on tripods, providing a full 360-degree field of view.  The test vehicles or subjects can be outfitted with trackers so that the rover position and orientation, with sub millimeter accuracy, can be captured in real time.
Fresno Center | California Conservation Corps
The center is collaborating with the CAL FIRE Fresno-Kings (FKU) unit to operate the crew, which is known as Mid Valley 1. Wildland hand crews help build fire line with hand tools and conduct mop-up work.
Forestry Corps: The Fresno Center operates a CCC Forestry Corps crew committed to improving California’s forest health. Corpsmembers are trained to remove and reduce overgrown and dead vegetation posing a potential fire risk. The Forestry Corps may also assist in tree planting, tree felling, and other arborist work and training. Partnerships are developed and maintained with sponsoring agencies such as CAL FIRE, U.S. Forest Service, California State Parks, Department of Water Resources, Caltrans, and local non-profit land conservancies and councils.
Energy Corps Corpsmembers conduct energy surveys, lighting retrofits, solar installation, EV charging station installation and more throughout the Central Valley and across Northern California. Training opportunities are regularly provided at the CCC Sacramento Energy Center, which features a state-of-the-art energy lab for hands-on training and experience.
Another duty of the CCC is to respond to emergencies such as natural disaster relief, fires, and floods. Fresno Corpsmembers regularly provide support to wildland fire base camps from April to October. Assignments can be requested at any time and Corpsmembers may be required to work up to 21 straight days, working 16-hour days at assignments.

 
 
 

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A Fresno Energy Corpsmember works to retrofit an overhead light inside the administration building of a school in Rosamond, CA.

 

All Corpsmembers at the Fresno Center complete Corpsmember Orientation, Motivation, Education, and Training (COMET) and Core training courses. Corpsmembers without a high school diploma must work to finish their diploma while enrolled in the CCC.Other specialized trainings and certification opportunities include:

 
 
 

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Chain Saw Training
Chipper Safety & Training
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) 40-Hour Training
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2024 Public Comments to Preliminary Applications
Heavy rains washed out a main dirt road, and users created a second dirt road next to it. Within the time of one morning, about a dozen VO volunteers vertical mulched the second road that didn't belong there, and fixed the original road. Within a few hours, the volunteers made the land look like it was prior to the abuse. On the same day, other volunteers removed an illegal single track trail by vertical mulching the land. These are a couple of projects of several that VO organizes. VO is also attracting the attention of other volunteers stepping up behind the scenes helping with anything from webpage maintenance to social media support. People want to help. VO is present at public events that are environmentally centered. You will find VO alongside booths of people representing BLM, USFS, DFW, Trout Unlimited, Eastern Sierra Land Trust, Caltrout, Tread Lightly, etc. The list continues. VO should absolutely be funded for this grant so they can continue to support the public organizations of BLM, USFS, and LADWP in their efforts. VO also is beginning an educational component of their organizaton as well. It's worth every dollar, and more. Chris Leonard - 5/2/2024

I would like to comment on the California Valley Outdoors grant application on behalf of the California Off Road Vehicle Association. It looks like Calif Valley Outdoors is out to do great things for OHV. Thank you! I didn't see any mention of agreements between your nonprofit and the agencies whose land you are working on. I am sure you are on the up and up, but it would be reasuring to hear that the BLM and Forests know you are working there and are happy about it. I see bobcats for rent in my area for $300 a day, $1070 per week. Seems like $1050 per day is a lot. I think you should shop around for a better deal. You say you want to push a 10ft dozer blade with a bobcat, are you sure that is right? That is pretty big for a bobcat. Maybe transportation adds to it, but you should really examine bobcat costs.
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The Emerald Isles of Hạ Long Bay
Hạ Long Bay and nearby Bai Tu Long Bay—on the northeast coast of Vietnam, about 170 kilometers (100 miles) east of Hanoi—are shown in the above image, which was acquired on December 1, 2021, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8.
The two bays contain a notable range of karst formations, including pillars, conical peaks, arches, and caves. Cát Bà island, seen in the lower left of the image, is known for its many caves as well as its national park.
With an annual average temperature of 24°C (75°F), an annual average rainfall of 2,300 mm (90 inches), and a relative humidity of about 90 percent, Vietnam has the ideal conditions for karst landscapes. In fact, they cover about 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles) or 18 percent of the country, primarily in central and northern Vietnam.
The limestone that makes up the island mountains was deposited between about 390 million and 260 million years ago when shells and carbonate sediments were deposited on the bottom of the sea. Over a hundred million years, a blanket of limestone more than a kilometer (0.6 miles) thick built up. Then, about 40 million years ago, faulting and plate tectonic activity uplifted the limestone, subjecting it to the forces of erosion that produced the steep islands we see today.
The erosion of karst landscapes also produces highly fertile soils that support abundant biodiversity. Some species living in Vietnam's karst landscapes are found nowhere else in the world. Some of these endemic species, such as an iridescent snake found in 2020, are still being discovered.
The thick evergreen vegetation that covers the islands also hints at how the bays were named. Hạ Long translates to “descending dragon.” According to Vietnamese legend, a mother dragon and her children thwarted an attack in the Eastern Sea, incinerating the enemies with fire and emeralds from their mouths. The mother dragon then landed in what is known today as Hạ Long Bay; her children set down in Bai Tu Long Bay; and the emeralds formed the forested islands seen in the bays today.
Most of the islands in Hạ Long Bay, which was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994, are uninhabited and unaffected by humans.
The wild diversity of Sonoma County oaks 
Oaks provide an abundant food source, as well as cavities that house birds like the oak titmouse, and fallen logs and branches used by ants, beetles, salamanders, and even frogs. Oak woodlands are simply teeming with life. 
Another key reason why it’s important to maintain the health of oak trees and provide environments for young trees to thrive is because of their cultural significance. The acorns of the California black oak, for example, are an integral food for many indigenous people in Sonoma County and have been so for generations. (To learn more about local efforts to preserve black oak, check out the Black Oak Project at Pepperwood Preserve and Pepperwood’s Native Advisory Council.)
Land development and other challenges
While each of our oaks has its own story to tell, together they share some common challenges. The first is surviving development and some forms of agriculture. While most residents cherish their oaks, the trees sometimes are removed to make room for housing, commercial development, row crops, and vineyards. 

New shoots grow on an oak tree that was damaged by fire
The majority of our oaks are not directly threatened by development, but they still face challenges. Historically, oaks were managed with fire by Native Americans. Many of the mature trees we now enjoy got their start in an environment in which frequent ground fires kept shade-loving trees like Douglas fir and bay trees to a minimum. Oaks, madrone, and manzanita are fire-tolerant, but in many cases, they are actually fire-dependent. They need that regular burning to maintain their presence. In fact, after the recent wildfires in Sonoma County, many burned oaks have regenerated.
When oaks have little or no help from fire, they become stressed by increasing competition and are even more vulnerable to insects and diseases like Sudden Oak Death. Since 1995, nearly 10 percent of our region’s forest land has been affected, including coastal live oak, black oak, and tanoak trees. The diversity of our oak forests helps buffer us from the impact of this introduced pathogen. 
In addition to challenges to mature trees, oaks have trouble growing the next generation.
Rare Juniper Trail
Wind distributes the pollen, and the berries that form in March and April will stay on the tree until August or September of the following year. So, between March and August of any year there will be two berry crops on the trees simultaneously.Local Indians harvested the berries in August and pounded them to remove the flesh. It was eaten raw, or they dried and ground it to use in their bread or mush.
We hope you have enjoyed your walk through this Joshua tree/California juniper woodland. You may also enjoy the 3/4 mile Ripley Nature Trail, and learning about the wildlife and wildflowers of the park.Revisit Arthur B. Ripley Desert Woodland State Park and time of the year; it is a new experience each season.
 

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