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| Valerie A. Olson |
| Rice University Research Associate ► Webpage |
| University of Houston Adjunct Professor |
| Ph.D., Rice University 2010 |
| Research program |
Environment and ecology; extreme environments; environmental biomedicine, science, technology, and operations; experimental ecologies; ecological imaginaries; the future; cosmologies; expertise; ethics; United States; Europe; Latin America. |
| Projects |
| Book manuscript |
| American Extreme: an ethnography of astronautical visions and ecologiesProject funded by: the National Science Foundation, Rice University, an National Space Biomedical Research Institute internship, and a Rice University Humanities Research Center Dissertation Writing Fellowship. |
| Selected related publications |
| 2010. The ecobiopolitics of space biomedicine. Medical Anthropology 29:2. Pp 170 - 193 |
| In press. Doing something about Near Earth Objects: the emerging environmental politics of the solar system. In Bringing STS Into Environmental History (forthcoming). |
| Fieldwork |
NOAA Seagrant (2010 - 2011): An Ethnography of Expert Explanatory Models of the Deepwater Horizon Well Blowout. Compares three expert explanations of the disaster's causes and consequences; examines the contentious political ecology of the Gulf of Mexico's subsurface. |
| Contact valeriao at rice dot edu |
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| photo courtesy NASA |
Bottom: JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa on the Carpenter Basin seafloor during NASA NEEMO 13 mission |