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Bowman CDD, Elkins-Tanton LT, Talamante A, Bell JF, Cisneros E, Cook A, Frieman JD, Gainor D, Hunziker J, Khan S, Lawler CR, Maschino J, McCoy TJ, Nessi K, Oran R, Seal D, Simon A, Singh R, Tolbert CM, Valentine K, Weiss B, Wenkert DD, Williams DA. Mission to Psyche: Including Undergraduates and the Public on the Journey to a Metal World. Space Sci Rev 2023; 219:25. [PMID: 37034007 PMCID: PMC10075154 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-023-00967-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
The NASA Psyche mission's program to engage university undergraduates and the public in the mission is inspired by and built upon the extensive foundation of public engagement, educational outreach activities, and expertise of NASA and mission partner institutions. The program leverages the enthusiasm and contributions of undergraduates nationwide to the benefit of the mission, the students and their institutions and communities, and the broader public. Psyche Student Collaborations consists of four main programs, two (Psyche Capstone and Psyche Inspired) are available solely to undergraduates enrolled at universities or community colleges in the United States and its territories and two (Innovation Toolkit free online courses and Science Outreach Interns and Docents) invite broader participation by engaging the talents and creativity of undergraduate interns to help create content and events to reach the public and lifelong learners. Together, these offerings provide multiple entry points and a spectrum of intensity of experiences, numbers of participants, disciplinary diversity, and mode of delivery. Involving undergraduates in all phases of the program supports the development of the next generation of explorers, contributes to the nation's workforce preparation, and complements NASA's existing undergraduate offerings by providing long-term opportunities for students to participate with the mission through established postsecondary education structures like capstone courses.
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
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Bowes DA, Driver EM, Kraberger S, Fontenele RS, Holland LA, Wright J, Johnston B, Savic S, Engstrom Newell M, Adhikari S, Kumar R, Goetz H, Binsfeld A, Nessi K, Watkins P, Mahant A, Zevitz J, Deitrick S, Brown P, Dalton R, Garcia C, Inchausti R, Holmes W, Tian XJ, Varsani A, Lim ES, Scotch M, Halden RU. Leveraging an established neighbourhood-level, open access wastewater monitoring network to address public health priorities: a population-based study. Lancet Microbe 2023; 4:e29-e37. [PMID: 36493788 PMCID: PMC9725778 DOI: 10.1016/s2666-5247(22)00289-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US opioid epidemic triggered a collaborative municipal and academic effort in Tempe, Arizona, which resulted in the world's first open access dashboard featuring neighbourhood-level trends informed by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). This study aimed to showcase how wastewater monitoring, once established and accepted by a community, could readily be adapted to respond to newly emerging public health priorities. METHODS In this population-based study in Greater Tempe, Arizona, an existing opioid monitoring WBE network was modified to track SARS-CoV-2 transmission through the analysis of 11 contiguous wastewater catchments. Flow-weighted and time-weighted 24 h composite samples of untreated wastewater were collected at each sampling location within the wastewater collection system for 3 days each week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021 (Area 7 and Tempe St Luke's Hospital were added in July, 2020). Reverse transcription quantitative PCR targeting the E gene of SARS-CoV-2 isolated from the wastewater samples was used to determine the number of genome copies in each catchment. Newly detected clinical cases of COVID-19 by zip code within the City of Tempe, Arizona were reported daily by the Arizona Department of Health Services from May 23, 2020. Maricopa County-level new positive cases, COVID-19-related hospitalisations, deaths, and long-term care facility deaths per day are publicly available and were collected from the Maricopa County Epidemic Curve Dashboard. Viral loads of SARS-CoV-2 (genome copies per day) measured in wastewater from each catchment were aggregated at the zip code level and city level and compared with the clinically reported data using root mean square error to investigate early warning capability of WBE. FINDINGS Between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, 1556 wastewater samples were analysed. Most locations showed two waves in viral levels peaking in June, 2020, and December, 2020-January, 2021. An additional wave of viral load was seen in catchments close to Arizona State University (Areas 6 and 7) at the beginning of the fall (autumn) semester in late August, 2020. Additionally, an early infection hotspot was detected in the Town of Guadalupe, Arizona, starting the week of May 4, 2020, that was successfully mitigated through targeted interventions. A shift in early warning potential of WBE was seen, from a leading (mean of 8·5 days [SD 2·1], June, 2020) to a lagging (-2·0 days [1·4], January, 2021) indicator compared with newly reported clinical cases. INTERPRETATION Lessons learned from leveraging an existing neighbourhood-level WBE reporting dashboard include: (1) community buy-in is key, (2) public data sharing is effective, and (3) sub-ZIP-code (postal code) data can help to pinpoint populations at risk, track intervention success in real time, and reveal the effect of local clinical testing capacity on WBE's early warning capability. This successful demonstration of transitioning WBE efforts from opioids to COVID-19 encourages an expansion of WBE to tackle newly emerging and re-emerging threats (eg, mpox and polio). FUNDING National Institutes of Health's RADx-rad initiative, National Science Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, J M Kaplan Fund, and The Flinn Foundation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Devin A Bowes
- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; OneWaterOneHealth, The Arizona State University Foundation, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School for Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; OneWaterOneHealth, The Arizona State University Foundation, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School for Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; OneWaterOneHealth, The Arizona State University Foundation, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Strategic Management and Diversity Office, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Strategic Management and Diversity Office, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- The Biodesign Institute Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; School for Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; OneWaterOneHealth, The Arizona State University Foundation, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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