Astrosociology
Research Institute (ARI)
The
original Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation dedicated
to the development of astrosociology
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About
ARI
The
Astrosociology Research Institute (ARI) is a California
nonprofit public benefit educational corporation dedicated
to the development of astrosociology as a multidisciplinary
academic field. Its mission includes providing
assistance to individuals and organizations that choose
to pursue ARI's mission as stated on the home page of
this site. It's mission emphasizes assistance to students
conducting astrosociological study and research. ARI
is the original nonprofit corporation dedicated to the
development of astrosociology as an accepted field in
academia and to cutting-edge astrosociological research.
The
Astrosociology Research Institute is not a space
advocacy group. Rather, ARI dedicates itself
to conducting science and to help others do the same so
that we may all construct a coherent astrosociological
body of knowledge and related literature, and place the
field of astrosociology into academia as a permanent fixture.
The staff and formal associations appear below.
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Officers |
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Jim Pass, Ph.D., Chief
Executive Officer / Senior Research Scientist
Dr.
Pass received his doctorate from the University
of Southern California in 1991. Long seeking
to combine his passion for space exploration with
his professional training in sociology, he finally
moved ahead with his long-term dream in 2003 when
inspired by a paper on the internet by Dr. Allen
Tough called Positive Consequences of
SETI Before Detection that mentioned
the term "astrosociology" (see the Virtual
Library page). He refined the definition
and scope of the new field over the next seven months
until uploading the first site dedicated exclusively
to astrosociology, Astrosociology.com,
in July 2003. Since August 2004, when
the three officers met at the American Sociology
Association (ASA) meeting in San Francisco, the
development of astrosociology carried forward. In
May 2008, they formed the Astrosociology Research
Institute. |
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Thomas Gangale, M.A.,
Deputy Executive Officer / Senior Research Scientist
Thomas
Gangale is an aerospace engineer, political scientist,
and international relations scholar. A former United
States Air Force officer, he currently serves as
executive director at OPS-Alaska, a think tank based
in Petaluma, California. He is a leading authority
on timekeeping systems for other planets, is the
inventor of a class of orbits that will be essential
to communication between Earth and crews in the
vicinity of Mars, and directs a nationwide effort
to reform the American presidential nomination process.
He is the author of From the Primaries to the
Polls: How to Repair America's Broken Presidential
Nomination Process, published by Praeger. A
book on private enterprise, international law, and
the development of outer space is due to be published
by Praeger in 2009. He brings the disparate skills
and perspectives of an aviator, engineer and a social
scientist to the developing field of astrosociology.
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Marilyn Dudley-Flores, Ph.D.,
Secretary/Treasurer / Senior Research Scientist
Dr.
Marilyn "Stryker" Dudley-Flores, who has
also published under "Dudley-Rowley,"
is primarily known for investigating the group functioning
of extreme environmental teams and crews and for
shedding light on "third-quarter phenomenon."
Not only a social psychologist, Dr. Dudley-Flores
is a macrosociologist and archaeologist. In those
roles, she is concerned about the affects of climate
change, decline side of oil, advanced industrialization,
globalization, Academe as a feeder industry, and
space-based systems. In addition, she is a remote
sensing analyst, clinical counselor, and a field
scientist with the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System.
She was the U.S. Army's first female soldier trained
as a combat mountaineer in Alaska and played a role
in the rescue and relocation of the Kara Kirghiz
from the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to eastern
Turkey after the Soviet invasion. |
Board of Directors |
| Jim
Pass |
| Thomas
Gangale |
| Marilyn
Dudley-Flores |
Board
of Advisors |
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Albert
A. Harrison, Ph.D. |
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(other
advisors cuurently under consideration) |
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ARI
Research Team* |
| Jim
Pass, Staff Senior Research
Scientist |
| Thomas
Gangale, Staff Senior Research
Scientist |
| Marilyn
Dudley-Flores, Staff Senior
Researcher |
| Albert
A. Harrison, Advisor / Research
Affiliate |
Directory
of Public Supporters: (click
here)
These
individuals publicly acknowledge their support
of the development of astrosociology and avail
themselves to conducting astrosociological research
and collaboration with other like-minded individuals
and organizations. Individuals listed
in the Directory possess various types of statuses
as indicated. A form for adding your
name to this listing may be found by following
the link on the page as indicated.
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