In her boldest project yet, Sarah is preparing to summit Mt. Everest in 2015. Her mission is to record the first person view of the expedition with a 360degree HD camera, while making site-specific artistic responses at various altitudes. She is in the rigorous phases of training leading to the prerequisite preconditioning of the mind and body for the ascent. She is also consulting with expeditionary artists, explorers and technologists to adapt creative tools to endure the cold remote heights.

Mt Everest Summit Expedition 1 Apr-3 Jun 2015.

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DO Lectures Australia invite a set of people to come and tell a group of live-in invited-guests what they Do. Speakers are creators of change, those who rattle the proverbial cage and strive towards doing something new.

This is the only time Sarah will speak publically in the week before departing for Kathmandu on an Everest Summit expedition.

Payne's Hut, 19-22 March 2015.

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Towards a cooperation between the arts, space science research and the European Space Agency - Preliminary findings of the ESA Topical Team Arts and Sciences (ETTAS) Pell, S.J., Imhof, A.B., Waldvogel, A., Kotler, J.M., & Peljhan, M.

Highlights: Recommendations to ESA for an ESA Arts Initiative EAI; Towards a collaboration between artists, scientists and engineers; Formats of cooperation, strategic relations, financing, quality management, results; Use of existing ESA infrastructure and programmes to complement project goals.; and Recommendations for future similar initiatives.

International Academy of Astronautics, Dec 2014. Elsevier: DOI 10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.08.015 (subscription)

A panel including a leading female engineer, entreprenaur, scientist and artist take an in-depth look on the position of women in leadership: Dr. Marlene Kanga, AO, May Ngui, Dr. Leonie Walsh, and Dr. Sarah Jane Pell for the Women in Engineering Breakfast Panel.

EA Convention 2014 was the largest engineering event ever held in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, AU. 25-29 Nov 2014.

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A professional visit to the Victorian Space Science Education Centre with Dr. Katie Mack, Dr. Michael John and Rich Byrnes inspires Dr. Sarah Jane Pell to return to direct a short sci-fi film exploring a possible future entanglement with primitive explorer fish on Mars.

Behind the scenes of "Mars Explorer Fish" staring and produced by Dr. Sarah Pell. Camera Dr. Shaun Wilson. Production assistants: Sean Elliot and Dr. Danielle Wilde. Film still in post-production.

VSSEC Mars Simulation Missions Aug - Sep 2014.

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