Biology: Stennis microbiologist returns

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. – Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Doan, a microbiologist at Naval Research Laboratory-Stennis Space Center, recently returned from a 10-week deployment to Port au Prince, Haiti, as part of Operation Unified Response. Doan, who is assigned to NRL's Marine Geosciences Division, volunteered to deploy to the region after learning of a need for a microbiologist in a Navy Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit from the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit No. 2, located in Norfolk, Va. (Source: NRL, 05/17/10) Note: Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7 earthquake in January, and suffered aftershocks as well, that killed some 220,000 people and left more than a million homeless.