» Table of Contents for John Greenleaf's Interview

My Career in Science
John E. Greenleaf
Introduced by Don Watenpaugh

 Timeline / Table of Contents

00:00:00        Introduction

00:01:42        What�s keeping you busy in retirement?

00:03:06        What drove early interest in science?

00:04:20        Changed from Ph.D. track in physical education to physiology. 

00:05:09        Why?

00:06:31        Time at Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico

00:07:55        Never say �uncle�!

00:10:08        First publication:  single-author letter to Nature

00:11:23        Kite flying contest and interpretation of rules

00:13:38        Research subject recruitment

00:15:10        Involuntary dehydration:  observations and speculations

00:17:38        Involvement of your wife, Carol, in your career

00:19:33        Hiring and early days at NASA Ames Research Center (1960�s)

00:23:13        Greenleaf library donated to San Jose State University PE dept.

00:23:49        The early, �golden years� of NASA funding

00:25:15        Problems and waste caused by the requirement to spend all federal funding prior to the end of a fiscal year

00:26:51        Most challenging projects at Ames:  bed rest studies

00:28:10        Earliest bed rest studies at Ames:  hippies for subjects

00:30:04        1986 bed rest study and the Challenger disaster

00:32:53        Open vs. blind peer-review:  what are the merits?

00:36:09        Gender and other subject selection considerations

00:41:28        The most obstinate, surly bureaucrat to interfere with your work?

00:43:09        Further discussion of gender in human research

00:44:30        The ideal astronaut:  a �cool, slow-breathing, hyperosmotic dwarf�?

00:45:43        Professor Robert E. Johnson:  late-1950�s course on physiology of space travel

00:47:40        What makes science fun for you?

00:50:00        Your top three works?

00:53:18        Advantages and benefits of international collaboration

00:53:59        Observation that water immersion relieves dehydration-induced thirst

00:56:06        Mechanisms of diuresis from water immersion:  controversial findings

01:00:09        Quantification of research publication productivity and efficiency

01:02:20        Publish your work:  �You learn when you write the Discussion!�

01:03:01        Merits of being your own first subject in human research

01:04:05        Any research you did �back then� that would not be approved now?

01:04:53        Are religion and science necessarily in conflict? 

01:06:21        Hardest lesson of your career? 

01:07:14        Brightest student(s)?

01:08:09        Neatest finding(s)?

01:09:03        Medline contains no abstracts for works prior to 1970.  Is this a problem, and if so, what should be done? 

01:10:40        A solution to the obesity epidemic?

01:11:32        Any unfulfilled aspirations?  Did you want to be an astronaut?

01:12:24        Opinions about countermeasures against microgravity-induced deconditioning?

01:13:20        Any comments on the increases in human research oversight during your career?

01:13:58        What inspired the Greenleaf award and the criteria to win it? 

01:15:49        What�s new with AstroAde, the drink you invented to rehydrate astronauts before re-entry?

01:17:23        Comment on your work with Norsk and colleagues concerning physiologic predictors of low orthostatic tolerance

01:18:24        Any plans to write your memoirs? 

01:18:35        Is science subject to fads?

01:19:21        Any �skeletons in the closet� to let out now?

01:19:31        Any take-home messages for young physiologists or those considering such a career?

01:20:00        Closing comments