William R. Kramer

Frederick, Maryland

Publications

Outer Space, Alien Life and IP Protocols - An opportunity to rethink life patents. Chapter 37 in, "The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property."

2015. SAGE Publishing

Extraterrestrial Environmental Impact Assessments - A foreseeable prerequisite for wise decisions regarding outer space exploration, research and development. Space Policy. Vol. 30 Issue 4. pp 215-222. November 2014

To humbly go -- Guarding against perpetuating models of colonization in the 100-Year Starship

Study. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 67, No. 5. pp 180-186 May 2014

Colonizing Mars - An Opportunity for reconsidering bioethical standards and obligation to

future generations. Futures 43 (2011) 545-551. Keeping Mars Clean, Science 324(5932): 1265-1266, June 5. 2009.

Formal presentations and teaching

Outer Space as an Opportunity to Re-define Concepts of Geopolitical Borders. Formal paper presented at the Second Manfred Lachs Conference on Space Law, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

Giving Voice to the Extraterrestrial -- Providing legal standing to the unknown. Formal paper

presented at the 2014 CONTACT Conference, Sunnyvale, CA, 2014. Ethics and ET. Formal seminar. International Space University, Strasbourg, France. 2014

2014 - The year we make contact. YouTube Interview for ThinkTech Hawaii, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld5DTQ-v8ds Ethics and ET. Formal seminar and workshop. International Space University, Strasbourg,

France. 2013

The Present and Future “We”- The role of technology in expanding the sphere of ethical consideration . Formal paper. World Futures Studies Federation, Bucharest, Romania.

Astrobiology Futures - The opportunity of space. Formal seminar. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013.

To humbly go -- Guarding against perpetuating models of colonization in the 100-Year Starship Study. Formal paper. 100-Year Starship Symposium, Orlando, FL, 2011.

The Futures of Bioethics. Symposium for Korean media professionals. Honolulu, HI. 2011.

Extraterrestrial Exploration – New Beginnings or Perpetuation of Colonial Models? Formal paper. Conference on Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside, California, 2010

Christmas on Mars -- Engineering Challenges of a Mars Habitat Simulation.

Seminar. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii 2010. Ethical opportunities presented by the discovery of extraterrestrial life. Formal paper. Mars

Society Annual Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 2010.

Mars Desert Research Station -- Defined and Subtle Purposes of a Simulated Mars Habitat. Seminar. Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2010.

Grants and honoraria

Source: Samsung Corporation, Seoul, Korea. Honorarium for formal seminar presentation. 2011. Source: NASA, to participate as the Mission Commander for a two-week simulation of living

and conducting research on the surface of Mars; Mars Desert Research Station, Utah, 2009.