OSDR Chats with Dr Robert Reynolds on His Latest Publication

Welcome to “OSDR Chats,” an interview series featuring authors of OSDR-enabled publications. Researchers share highlights and insights into their work, emphasizing the valuable roles played by Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) and the Analysis Working Groups (AWGs) in their research. This first interview features Dr Robert Reynolds of NASA Johnson Space Center who used four Open Science Datasets: OSD-310, OSD-351, OSD-477, and OSD-489, to propose a method of validating directed acyclic graphs used by NASA.

NASA’s Human Systems Risk Board utilizes causal diagrams to communicate how spaceflight challenges astronauts’ health, well-being, and performance. In the publication: “Validating Causal Diagrams of Human Health Risks for Spaceflight: An Example Using Bone Data from Rodents”, Dr Reynolds and colleagues introduced a method to assess the explanatory fidelity of causal diagrams, and demonstrated it by applying data from rodent experiments against the causal diagram for bone loss. OSDR recently spoke to Dr Reynolds to hear about this work and highlighted how the OSDR and AWGs enabled this publication.

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