Dr. Adam Szabo

NASA/GSFC, Code 696
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Phone: (301) 286-5726
Fax: (301) 286-1648
Email: Adam.Szabo@nasa.gov

PRESENT POSITION:

Astrophysicist, Electrodynamics Branch
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

EDUCATION:

B.S. (honors), Physics and Applied Mathematics (with special honors), The University of Chicago, 1988
Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Szabo has been active in heliospheric and planetary (plasmas and magnetic fields) experimental investigations. His research interests are heliospheric structures and their dynamic evolution, solar wind interactions with planetary magnetospheres, and the solar-terrestrial connection.

MANAGEMENT TRAINING:

1999 - Goddard Leadership Education Series

EXPERIENCE:

1998-present -- Astrophysicist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
1996 - 1998 -- Principal Scientist, Hughes STX, NASA/GSFC
1994 - 1996 -- NRC Research Associate, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
1993 - 1994 -- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.
1988 - 1993 -- Graduate Research Assistant, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.
1985 - 1988 -- Undergraduate Research Assistant, The University of Chicago

Project Science
2003 - present -- Member, NMP Solar Sail Demo development team (ST-9)
2001 - 2002    -- Member, NMP Solar Sail Demo development team (ST-7)
2000 - present -- Project Scientist for Sentinels, Living With a Star
1999 - 2001    -- Member, NMP Solar Sail Demo development team (DS-5)
1999 - present -- Member, Interstellar Probe Science Definition Team

Flight Teams
2000 - present -- Pricipal Investigator, IMP 8 Magnetometer
1998 - present -- Deputy Lead, Triana PlasMag 
1997 - 2000    -- Co-Investigator, IMP 8 Magnetic Field Investigation
1994 - present -- Data Manager, GGS/WIND Magnetic Field Investigation
1988 - 1994    -- Team Member, Voyager 1,2 Plasma Science Experiment
1988 - 1994    -- Team Member, IMP 8 Space Plasma Group
1985  - 1988   -- Team Member, Pioneer 10, 11 Cosmic Ray Instrument

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

2003 - present -- Chair, Research at 1 AU research team
2003 - present -- Lead, Virtual Heliospheric Observatory Development Team
2002 - present -- Chair, Heliospheric Strategy Panel, Living With a Star

HONORS:

2002 -- GSFC Performance Award
2001 -- GSFC Performance Award
2001 -- GSFC Special Act Award
2000 -- GSFC Performance Award
1999 -- GSFC Sepcial Act Award
1998 -- GSFC Performance Award 
1998 -- NASA Group Achievement Award for WIND MFI GGS Investigations Team 
1995 -- GSFC Group Achievement Award for the Magnetic Field Investigation (MFI) WIND Team
1992 -- Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 1992 Spring AGU Meeting, Montreal
1989 -- NASA Group Achievement Award for the Voyager 2 Neptune Encounter, Plasma Science Experiment Team

AWARDED GRANT PROPOSALS:

PI - The Structure and Evolution of the Heliospheric Current Sheet
       NASA NRA-977-OSS-08, Heliopsheric Physics
       FY98 - FY00
PI - Transition of Shocks and Discontinuities through the Magnetosheath
       NASA NRA-98-SEC-03, Heliospheric Missions GI
       FY99 - FY01


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

1988 - present -- American Geophysical Union

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Szabo, A., C. W. Smith, and R. M. Skoung, The transition of interplanetary shocks through the magnetosheath, Proceedings of Solar      Wind Ten, AIP Press, Pisa, Italy, in press, 2002.
  2. Szabo, A., R. P. Lepping, J. Merka, C. W. Smith, and R. M. Skoung, The evolution of interplanetary shocks driven by magnetic clouds, Proceedings of "Solar Encounter: The First Solar Orbiter Workshop", pp. 383-387, eds. E. Marsch, V. Martinez Pillet, B. Fleck and R. Marsden, ESA SP-493, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, 2001.
  3. Szabo, A., D. E. Larson, and R. P. Lepping, The heliospheric current sheet on small scale, Proceedings of Solar Wind Nine, pp. 589-592, edited by S. R. Habbal, R. Esser, J. V. Hollweg, and P. A. Isenberg, AIP Press, Woodbery, NY, 1999.
  4. Szabo, A., R. P. Lepping, and D. E. Larson, Crossing the Heliospheric Current Sheet, Interball in the ISTP Program, pp. 231-237, edited by D. G. Sibeck and K. Kudela, NATO ASI Series, Kluwer, 1999.
  5. Szabo, A., R. P. Lepping, J. H. King, K. I. Paularena, and J. D. Richardson, Twenty years of interplanetary magnetofluid variations with periods between 10 days and 3 years, p. 399, Proceedings of Solar Wind Eight, edited by D. Winterhalter, J. Gosling, S. Habbal, W. Kurth, and M. Neugebauer, AIP Press, Dana Point, CA, 1996.
  6. Szabo, A., R. P. Lepping, and J. H. King, Magnetic field observations of the 1.3-year solar wind oscillation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 1845, 1995.
  7. Szabo, A., and R. P. Lepping, Neptune inbound bow shock, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 1723, 1995.
  8. Szabo, A., An improved solution to the "Rankine-Hugoniot" problem, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 14,737, 1994.
  9. Szabo, A., The interaction of Neptune with the solar wind, Thesis (Ph.D.) - MIT, Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section:B, p. 5205, 1993
  10. Szabo, A., A. J. Lazarus, R. L. McNutt, Jr., G. L. Siscoe, R. P. Lepping, and N. F. Ness, Magnetopause and cusp observations at Neptune, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 19,149, 1991.

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