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Geospace Physics Branch, Code 612.3

Civil Service Staff


Dr. James A. Slavin, Branch Head, Astrophysicist, experimental investigations of planetary and heliospheric magnetic fields, magnetospheric physics, solar wind interactions with planets and comets
Publications and Papers

Dr. Michael Hesse, Astrophysicist,  numerical modeling of magnetotail dynamics; Plasmoid formation and evolution; Plasma stability theory; Analytical theory of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection; Theory and modeling of collisionless magnetic reconnection; Remote sensing of magnetospheric plasma populations; MHD, hybrid and full particle code development; Data analysis and supporting theory 
Publications and Papers

Dr. Robert A. Hoffman (Emeritus), Astrophysicist, experimental investigations of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Publications and Papers

Dr. Maria M. Kuznetsova, Astrophysicist, theoretical studies of space plasma, magnetospheric physics, magnetic reconnection, mechanisms of collisionless dissipation, analytical theory, data analysis, hybrid simulations, global MHD simulations, representation of kinetic effects in MHD models
Publications and Papers

Dr. Guan Le, Astrophysicist, dayside magnetopause and boundary layers, solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, ULF waves in the regions upstream of collisionless shocks in the magnetosphere and on the ground
Publications and Papers

Dr. Ronald P. Lepping, Astrophysicist, solar wind-planetary interactions, magnetic field and particle environment of earth, planets, satellites and comets
Publications and Papers

Dr. Robert F. Pfaff, Space Scientist, direct current and wave electric fields, plasma waves and instabilities, space flight instrumentation
Publications and Papers

Leslie Salter (Emeritus)

Dr. David G. Sibeck, Astrophysicist, Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions
Publications and Papers

Dr. John Sigwarth, Astrophysicist, the driving of the aurora by sharp increases in the dynamic pressure in the solar wind impacting the magnetosphere, the coupling efficiency of energy from the solar wind to the magnetosphere as a function of the state of the solar wind
Publications and Papers

Dr. Adam Szabo, Astrophysicist,  heliospheric structures and their dynamic evolution, solar wind interactions with planetary magnetospheres, the solar-terrestrial connection
Publications and Papers

Judith A. Johnson, Computer Engineer, 3-D Visualization, Computer Security


Associates


Co-Located Civil Servants
David Berger, Software Engineer, Goddard Space Flight Center Code 583

Ayris Falasca, Computer Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center Code 587

Chris Howard (Co-Op), Goddard Space Flight Center Code 587

Marlo Maddox, Computer Scientist,Goddard Space Flight Center Code 587

Kathryn R. Rash (Co-Op), Goddard Space Flight Center Code 587

NRC Resident Research Associates
Dr. Jonathan P. Eastwood (D. Sibeck)

Dr. Jan Merka (A. Szabo)

Dr. Douglas E. Rowland (R. Pfaff)

Dr. Timothy Stubbs (R. Vondrak)

Dr. Eija Tanskanen

Dr. Chin-Chun Wu (F. Ottens)

Dr. Yihua Zheng (G. Le)

Contractor Staff
Kenneth Bromund, Programmer/Data Analyst (C/NOFS VEFI), GS&T  

Deborah Chipouras, Secretary, Boeing
Sounding Rockets Support.

Albert Davison, Data Technician/Programmer, ITMI

Dr. Henry Freudenreich, L-3 GSI/SSAI
Sounding Rockets/Polar.

Dr. Kristi Keller, Physicist, SP Systems Inc.

Joe Kujawski, Instrument Manager, GS&T

Carmen M. Liebrecht, L-3 GSI/SSAI
Polar

Dr. Steve Martin, Sr. Programmer/Data Analyst, L-3 GSI/SSAI
Sounding Rockets

Tom Narock, Computer Programmer, L-3 GSI/SSAI
WIND/MFI/IMP-8

Dr. Lutz Rastaetter, Physicist, Raytheon/QSS
Theoretical and Numerical Space Plasma Physics

Zoe Rawlings, Branch Secretary

Patricia A. Twigg, L-3 GSI/SSAI
Sounding Rockets

Paulo Uribe, L-3 GSI/SSAI
C/NOFS

 


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Last revised: February 17, 2004