Stephen A. Daire holds an Evolutionary Anthropology BSc and Evolutionary Medicine Graduate Certificate from Rutgers University, a University of Southern California Geographic Information Science & Technology MSc, and is a Johns Hopkins MSc Systems Engineering Student. He has worked with Rutgers Paleoenvironmental Research Laboratory, National Geographic Society, International Institute of Astronautical Sciences, and international governments on remote sensing, geodatabase (GBD) programing, underwater surveying, and astronautics projects. He conducted analog astronautic underwater LiDAR and earth observation satellite cave surveys for his MSc thesis. He recently completed a Syracuse University engineering course for Unity AR/VR/XR Immersive Development & Design. Stephen founded Protean Industries to forward space exploration via cave diving and geospatial robotics. He is currently authoring chapters for the Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats and studying virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality design with Syracuse University.
