"I am a
scientist. I am an engineer. I am an explorer. I am also a
man of faith. They are entirely consistent. Indeed, one cannot
exist with full integrity without the other. They build upon one another
and make each stronger. Without my faith - the rest would be empty,
futile and; in the end, terribly meaningless. And without my science, I
would understand nothing of the world I was created to change..."
DENNIS
CHAMBERLAND IS AN EXPLORER, AUTHOR, bioengineer, award winning nuclear
engineer, space life scientist, and aquanaut. Following his role as a United
States Naval Officer and after completing graduate studies, he again worked
with the Navy as a civilian U.S. Government Nuclear Engineer. Dennis was a
radiological control professional for Navy Nuclear submarines and was involved
in a Nuclear Emergency Planning study at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the chief architect, design engineer, and
builder of several undersea habitats, including NASA’s Scott Carpenter Space
Analog Station. Dennis served as the NASA Mission Commander for 14 undersea
missions and was the Principal Investigator for the planting and harvesting of
the first agricultural crop ever grown in a habitat on the seafloor. Dr.
Chamberland is the author of the seminal and visionary work Undersea Colonies and is widely
considered the world’s leading professional in permanent undersea colonization.
He was featured in National Geographic’s documentary series Naked Science
“City Under the Sea” episode, and Motherboard’s “The Aquatic Life of Dennis
Chamberland.” Dennis Chamberland was a design engineer at NASA’s
John F. Kennedy Space Center for Advanced Space Life Support Systems being
considered for Moon and Mars bases, where he conceived the phrase and developed
the philosophy of Resource Recovery in lieu of Waste Processing, which was
adopted across the Space Agency. During this time in his career, he was an
active annual participant in the presentation of his work at the Princeton
Space Studies Institute, chairing multiple sessions there. During his 30-year distinguished career at NASA,
Dennis was also privileged to apply his skills to the NASA Safety, Quality, and
Reliability Office as an Operational Safety Specialist for the Space Shuttle
orbiter fleet. While at KSC, Dennis additionally managed NASA scientific
contracts, and sat as the Chairman of the NASA Kennedy Space Center
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) for 14 years, reviewing
during his tenure all vertebrate animal life science payloads on Shuttle and
those flown by Space Shuttle to the Russian Mir Space Station and later to the
International Space Station. He was also an active member of the NASA KSC
Speakers Bureau for over 20 years and spoke to groups and students across the U.S. Dennis published the 1986 groundbreaking cover story
on the bioethics of genetic engineering in Christianity Today, quoted as
the conclusion of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems
in Medicine and Behavioral Research. During his tenure as the Chairman of the
KSC IACUC, he acted as a NASA representative on several Agency biomedical
ethics review boards. He was a Principal Investigator for a landmark
scientific study conducted by a team from the John F. Kennedy Space Center,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, McKnight Brain Institute at the University of
Florida, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that inquired into the chronic
neurological effects of galactic cosmic radiation related to a crewed mission
to Mars utilizing the Brookhaven Collider-Accelerator. Dr. Chamberland is also the 2018 recipient of the
prestigious Nuclear Professional of the Year Award from the International
Atomic Energy Agency – ISOE North American Technical Center. |