Meet: Sabina Dore

Research Scientist
NASA / Kennedy Space Center

 

Who I am and what I do for KSC

Hi, my name is Sabina Dore and I am on a two-year fellowship with the National Research Council for plant studies at the Kennedy Space Center. In April 2001 my fellowship will end and then I will return to my work at the University in Viterbo, Italy.

While at KSC my responsibility was to measure and study the water and carbon dioxide exchange of the scrub ecosystem. I also had the opportunity to compare my research to a controlled study that my colleagues were involved with. They set up 16 open-ended chambers that produced vegetation. Half of the chambers had double the concentration of carbon dioxide and half were normal. This test was carried out to see how plants would react under different levels of carbon dioxide and temperature.

 

Close-up of Chamber	Plant Growth Chambers	Field Office

 

Career Journey

I grew up in Rome, Italy, and went to a "classical high school", where I studied old Greek, Latin and philosophy. From there I went to a little town north of Rome called Viterbo, where I got my Master's degree in Forest Sciences and then my Ph.D. in Forest Ecology.

Personal Information

I was born in 1969 in Rome, Italy. My father is a professor in physics and I have two sisters.