Every mission is like an organism, it has a personality and a style and that personality and style is sort of gained at the beginning of the mission, and it never changes. You can change out the people and you still have the same mission personality.

How do the many scientists and engineers who work on spacecraft mission teams decide what their robots should do next? Over several book projects and articles listed below, I examine the relationship between the social and technical context of spacecraft teams and the scientific work that these teams accomplish in space. My work examins how scientific collaborations are organized and why, what tools people use to support their radically distributed work (across many countries and two planets), the political and economic contexts of collaboration, and different data sharing architectures.

Many of my publications have important implications for how we build better collaborative systems. For instance, in a co-authored CSCW paper with Paul Dourish argues that how a collaboration shares data is contingent upon how it acquires that data in the first place: this changes how we should think about "data sharing" in the sciences. Recently, I have been working with a new mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to understand how science is funded, especially in periods of political and economic uncertainty: a project I plan to turn into a book with Dr David Reinecke. I am also working with a mission to study the Interstellar Medium on how best to assemble long-lived infrastructural systems.

This work has been funded by several major grants from the National Science Foundation under programs such as Cyberhuman Systems, Science of Science Innovation Policy, and Science and Technology Studies. Funding for historical work was through the NASA History Office/History of Science Society Fellowship in the History of Space Science. I have occasionally received small grants from NASA funded groups to assist in developing their mission projects.