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candidate caribou , maine , u.s. american 1 july 1977 2013 nasa group nasa candidate jessica u meir.jpg jessica meir
 jessica meir nasa astronaut professor scripps institution of oceanography international space university brown university
jessica meir

jessica ulrika meir -lrb- born july 1 , 1977 -rrb- is assistant professor of anesthesia at harvard medical school , massachusetts general hospital , boston , following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the university of british columbia .
she has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in antarctica , and the physiology of bar-headed geese , which are able to migrate over the himalayas .
in 2000 , meir graduated with a master of space studies from the international space university in strasbourg , france .
in september 2002 , meir served as an aquanaut on the nasa extreme environment mission operations 4 -lrb- -rrb- crew .
in june 2013 she was named an astronaut candidate by nasa , becoming one of the eight members of nasa astronaut group 21 .
she is from caribou , maine .
