RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
  • Middle Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics
  • Multi-dimensional Atmospheric Modelling
  • Charged Particle Energy Deposition
    • EDUCATION
     
    1972 - B.S. - Nebraska Wesleyan University, Physics and Mathematics (Highest Distinction)
     
    1978 - Ph.D. - University of Florida, Department of Physics and Astronomy
    PRESENT POSITION
     
    Since 2015 - Emeritus Scientist, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    PREVIOUS POSITION
     
    1978 - 1980, Resident Research Associate (National Research Council) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
     
    1980 - 2014, Civil Servant, Physical Scientist, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
     
    American Geophysical Union
    Sigma Xi
    Phi Beta Kappa
    Phi Kappa Phi
    Sigma Pi Sigma
    AWARDS
     
    2007 Acknowledged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to IPCC
    2006 NASA Group Achievement Award to the UARS Team
    2003 Nebraska Wesleyan University Alumni Achievement Award
    2000 NASA/GSFC Group Achievement Award for Excellence in Outreach to UARS Project Science Team
    1999 NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres General Recognition Peer Award
    1995 NASA/GSFC Special Act Group Award to UARS Recovery Team
    1995 NASA/GSFC Group Achievement Award to UARS Project Science Team
    1995 NASA Group Achievement Award to ASHOE/MAESA Experiment Team
    1994 NASA Group Achievement Award to SPADE Team
    1989 NASA Group Achievement Award to Ozone Trends Panel
    1988, 1996 NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres Peer Award for Scientific Achievement
    1985, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 NASA/GSFC Certificate of Outstanding Performance
    1986, 1989, 1993 NASA/GSFC Quality Increase
    SPECIAL EXPERIENCE
     
    16) Member of Organizing Committee for the Aspen Global Change Institute Workshop on Global Change and the Solar-Terrestrial Environment in Aspen, CO in June 2010.
    15) Project Scientist for AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (since 2009).
    14) Member of Scientific Committee for the Second International High-Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere (HEPPA) Workshop, held in Boulder, CO in October 2009.
    13) Member of Scientific Committee for the First International High-Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere (HEPPA) Workshop, held in Helsinki, Finland in May 2008.
    12) Guest Editor of the Solar Activity Forcing of the Middle Atmosphere Special Issue of Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (2005).
    11) Project Scientist for UARS (1999-2006).
    10) Co-chair of IAGA Working Group II.D, "External Forcing of the Middle Atmosphere" (1997-2011).
    9) Member of PhD committee and Advisor to PhD Graduate Student Francis Vitt, University of Kansas (1993-1997).
    8) Adjunct Professor, University of Kansas, since December, 1993.
    7) Deputy Project Scientist for UARS (1993-1999).
    6) Guest Editor of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) Special Issue of Geophysical Research Letters (1993).
    5) Participant in the Speaker's Bureau at NASA/GSFC since April 1989.
    4) Advisor to students in 1987 and 1989 who were part of the Summer Institute for Atmospheric Sciences.
    3) Editor of the "Conference Proceedings of the Two-Dimensional Intercomparison Workshop," held September 11-16, 1988 at Virginia Beach, VA.
    2) Principal Investigator (since March 1987) of the "Fast Two-Dimensional Model" effort funded by NASA Headquarters' Upper Atmosphere Theory and Data Analysis Program
    1) Assignment to NASA Headquarters July 1986 to October 1987 to assist with the Upper Atmosphere Theory and Data Analysis Program.
    INVITED TALKS
     
    2014 SCOSTEP's 13th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium, Xi'An, China
    2014 COSPAR Meeting in Moscow, Russia
    2014 LWS Second Extreme Space Weather Events Workshop in Boulder, CO
    2014 Eleventh Conference on Space Weather (American Meteorological Society) in Atlanta, GA
    2013 ISSI Workshop on Quantifying Hemispheric Differences in Particle Forcing Effects on Stratospheric Ozone in Bern, Switzerland
    2012 Fourth HEPPA Meeting in Boulder, CO
    2012 SORCE Science Meeting in Annapolis, MD
    2012 LWS Extreme Space Weather Events Workshop in Boulder, CO
    2011 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    2011 National Research Council Effects of Solar Variability on Earth's Climate Workshop in Boulder, CO
    2011 Third HEPPA Meeting in Granada, Spain
    2010 COSPAR Meeting in Bremen, Germany
    2009 LWS CDAW on Ground Level Enhancement Events in Palo Alto, CA
    2008 COSPAR Meeting in Montreal, Canada
    2008 First HEPPA Meeting in Helsinki, Finland
    2007 IUGG Meeting in Perugia, Italy
    2006 First SOLARIS Meeting in Boulder, CO
    2006 Climate Variability and Extremes During the Past 100 Years in Gwatt, Switzerland
    2005 ISSI Workshop on Solar Variability and Planetary Climates in Bern, Switzerland
    2005 Space Weather Week in Broomfield, CO
    2004 Challenges to Modeling the Sun-Earth System Workshop in Huntsville, AL
    2004 COSPAR Meeting in Paris, France
    2004 Solar Variability on Decadal to Millenial Timescales: Influence on Earth Climate Change and Prediction in Laurel, MD
    2003 IUGG Meeting in Sapporo, Japan
    2002 COSPAR Meeting in Houston, TX
    2001 Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry in Newport, RI
    2001 International Solar Cycle Studies Meeting in Longmont, CO
    2001 Spring AGU Meeting in Boston, MA
    2000 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    2000 International Astronautical Federation Meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    1999 IUGG Meeting in Birmingham, England
    1999 International Symposium on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    1998 COSPAR Meeting in Nagoya, Japan
    1996 COSPAR Meeting in Birmingham, England
    1995 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    1995 IUGG Meeting in Boulder, CO
    1995 Spring AGU Meeting in Baltimore, MD
    1994 Symposium on "Impact of Emissions from Aircraft and Spacecraft Upon the Atmosphere" in Cologne, Germany
    1993 IAMAP/IAGA Joint Meeting in Yokohama, Japan
    1991 IUGG Meeting in Vienna, Austria
    1990 COSPAR Meeting in The Hague, The Netherlands
    1989 IAGA Meeting in Exeter, England
    1989 IAGA Symposium on "External Forcing of the Middle Atmosphere" at the Castle of Liblice, Czechoslovakia
    1986 COSPAR Meeting in Toulouse, France
    SESSION CO-CONVENER
     
    2010 Special Session on "Heliosphere-Atmosphere Coupling and Climate" held at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    2007 Special Session on "Solar Variability Effects on Terretrial Climate" held at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    2005 Special Session on the "Long-term Measurement Records Related to Global Stratospheric Constituent Change" held at the Spring AGU Meeting in New Orleans, LA
    2003 Special Session on the "Earth's Collapsing Dipole" held at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    2001 Special Session on the "The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite: Ten Years in Orbit" held at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    1999 Symposium entitled "Effects of Solar Variability, Solar Wind, and High Energy Particles on the Middle Atmosphere," held at the IUGG Meeting in Birmingham, England
    1995 Special Session on the "UARS Science Highlights" held at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    1993 Special Session on the "UARS View of the Middle Atmosphere" held at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA
    1993 IAMAP/IAGA Joint Workshop on "Middle Atmosphere Effects of Extraordinary Strong Solar Particle Events of 1989-92" held at the IAMAP/IAGA Joint Meeting in Yokohama, Japan