DECIPHER: Going to Mars - Science, Society and Sustainability (2020-2021)
This project team developed and examined a series of risk-based decision scenarios of the settlement of Mars. Team members developed analyses and recommendations on key elements of settling Mars, drawing on tools from multiple disciplines including science, engineering, history, economics, ethics, law and international relations.
Major research focuses included habitat, housing and community; society and sustainability; international relations and security; and governance. Team members collaborated to produce website and reports, including:
- Equity and Resource Equality
- Inter-state Collaboration, Incentives
- International Investment, Arbitration
- Commercial Funding
- Backward Contamination
- Medical Risk, Ultrasound Systems
This team‘s work lives on through the Duke Space Initiative.
Timing
Summer 2020 – Spring 2021
Team Outputs
Best Practices for Going to Mars (2021 Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Virtual Showcase)
Going to Mars: Science, Society and Sustainability (poster by Savannah Artusi, Shuobo Boboila, Changhe Chen, Adam Doll, Joanna Feaster, Logan Taylor, Angel Heredia, Clare Holtzman, Lelia Jennings, Christpher Kilner, Natha Nouri, Siobhan Oca, Shihvam Patel, Donald Pepka, Ritika Sligram, Samuel Schrader, Chunxin Tang, Patrick Wilson, Jeremy yu, Chase Hamilton, Dniel Buckland, Tyler Felgenhauer, Spencer Kaplan, Jory Weintraub, Jonathan Wiener and Somia Youssef)
Reflections
This Team in the News
Securing the Final Frontier: Duke’s Space Diplomacy Lab
Summer Spotlights: How Four Ph.D. Students Advanced Their Research
Summer Research Snapshots 2021
Introducing: The Duke Space Initiative
Senior Spotlight: Reflections from the Class of 2021
Q&A with Current Political Science Students
See earlier related team, DECIPHER: Decisions on the Risks and Benefits of Geoengineering the Climate (2019-2020).
Image: Curiosity is ready for clay (highlighted), by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS