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What is CHAART?
The Center for Health Applications of Aerospace Related Technologies
(CHAART) is part of the
Ecosystem Science and Technology
(ECOSAT)
Branch of the
Earth Science Division
at the NASA Ames Research Center.
CHAART was established, and funded through 2004, by NASA's
Life Sciences Division, which became the
Fundamental Space Biology Division,
within the
Biological & Physical Research Enterprise
at NASA Headquarters. CHAART's role was
to support the science, application, education, and technology
development goals and objectives of the Agency. The establishment of CHAART
was consistent with the Agency's desire to make NASA technologies more readily
available to the widest possible user community.
The objectives of CHAART were to:
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Expand the use of aerospace and information technologies by the human
health community through outreach, education, applied research, and
direct transfer of proven technologies and knowledge to research/control
agencies and universities;
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Assist health investigators in the utilization of CHAART capabilities
to achieve the goals and objectives of their research; and
- Assess existing and planned aerospace-related technologies for use in health research, and encourage appropriate technological developments for this application.
Announcements
On 16 October 2004, Louisa R. Beck, CHAART's last Director, passed away. A memorial was held on 4 December 2004. A tribute to Louisa's career at NASA was printed in the November 2004 edition of the NASA Ames Astrogram.An article describing how CHAART and NIH are using Pocket PCs for collecting field data can be found in the June/July 2004 issue of Pocket PC, pp. 58-60.
On 5 February 2004, Byron L. Wood, CHAART's founding Director, passed away. A memorial service was held on 9 September 2004 at Ames Research Center. The slides from the service are available for viewing as a PDF. In Adobe Reader use the Previous and Next Page buttons at the bottom to navigate more simply. A tribute to Byron's career at NASA was printed in the March 2004 edition of the NASA Ames Astrogram.