HHP Alumnus Dr. Andrew Abercromby has been selected as a NEEMO-14 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) aquanaut to work in the Aquarius habitat, which is 60 ft underwater about 4 miles offshore from Key Largo, Florida.
Dr. Abercromby is a Project Manager with NASA'sEVA Physiology Systems and Performance Project (EPSP)
An Aquanaut conducts an underwater experiment on a previous NEEMO Mission (Img courtesy: NASA JSC)
Dr. Abercromby is a 2006 graduate of the Ph.D. program in Kinesiology and has been honored as a HHP Distinguished Alumnus in 2007.
Dr. Charles Layne with Dr. Andrew Abercromby at the COE STARS Banquet in 2007. Dr. Abercromby received the HHP Distinguished Alumni Award in front of a packed house which included his mother and other relatives from Scotland.
In addition to being selected for aNEEMO project. Dr. Abercromby has also served onNASA's Robot Recon team, on thePavilion Lake Research Project and on theHaughton-Mars Project north of the Arctic Circle
Dr. Andrew Abercromby (right) at theHaughton-Mars Project Research Station
(Img: HMPResearchStation's Flickr photostream)
