Dr. Christopher E. Mason the co-founder of Onegevity Health, co-founder of Biotia, and is a geneticist and computational biologist who has been a Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of many NASA missions and projects. He is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with affiliate appointments at the Meyer Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Mason is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.

3 words to describe Nature?

Beautiful. Responsive. Engineered

3 things Nature taught you?

Humility

Adaptation

Mutation

3 most treasured Nature spots?

Fernando de Noronha 

Sanders Park 

Lake Hillier

When you look at the OCEAN, it makes you feel…?

Open

When you see a FOREST, it makes you feel…?

Enraptured

When you see a VOLCANO, it makes you feel…?

Constructive 

When you see a SUNRISE or SUNSET, it makes you feel…?

Ease

When you hear THUNDER, it makes you feel…?

Volition

When you hear the WIND HOWLING, it makes you feel…?

Excited

Are you an OCEAN, MOUNTAIN, FOREST, or DESERT person?

Forest

On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?

9

Share with us a childhood nature memory?

Standing in a Panama rainforest away from all other people, and hearing the breath of the forest itself as I could feel and sense it moving and living.