Open AccessBacterial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo”
Author(s) -
Tomoaki Ichijo,
Naohito Yamaguchi,
Masao Nasu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2015.p1035
Subject(s) - international space station , viewpoints , aerospace , environmental monitoring , agency (philosophy) , space research , aeronautics , systems engineering , space (punctuation) , remote sensing , aerospace engineering , environmental science , computer science , engineering , geography , environmental engineering , art , philosophy , epistemology , visual arts , operating system
Since 2009, we have been continuously performing bacterial monitoring in Kibo, the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station (ISS), in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The objective of this research is to monitor microbes and analyze their dynamics in Kibo from environmental microbiological viewpoints. In this review, we summarize our research related to bacterial monitoring in Kibo.