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Professor Donald T. Farley
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After receiving the doctoral degree, Farley spent
a year at Cambridge University, a year at Chalmers
University in Sweden, and then six years in Peru at the
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, near Lima,
before returning to the United States and
joining the Cornell faculty in 1967. He returned to Sweden
in 1985 for a year as the Tage Erlander
Visiting Professor at the Uppsala Ionospheric Observatory.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers and a member of the American
Geophysical Union, the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI),
and the American Association
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Professor Michael C. Kelley
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After receiving the doctoral degree, Professor Kelley was a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley,
held a joint appointment as a Von Humboldt Fellow with Gerhard Haerendel at the Max Planck
Institute in West Germany, and then came to Cornell in 1975. In 1979 he won the American
Geophysical Union's James B. Macelwane Award and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical
Union. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Solar and
Space Plasmas; the Management Working Group on Solar Space Plasmas of the Office of Space
Science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and the National Science Foundation
Advisory Committee on the Atmospheric Research Program. In 1981 he won the Tau Beta Pi
Cornell Society of Engineers Award as the outstanding teacher in the Cornell College of Engineering.
Dr. Kelley is currently Chairman of the NSF Global Change Programs/Upper Atmosphere
Component, CEDAR, and is the Special Advisor for Atmospheric Science conducted at the
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Professor Paul M. Kintner
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Professor Kintner has many projects in the works.
He is working with global positioning systems: ONR is sponsoring prediction
techniques for equatorial scintillation storm effects on GPS signals,
and NASA is sponsoring sub-microsecond time standards
for spacecraft using GPS. Professor Kintner is also
doing work with sounding rockets. Recently, he has
launched SCIFER-Sounding of the Cleft Ion Fountain
Energization Region (Norway, Jan. '95), and AMICIST-Auroral
Microphysics-Ion Conic Investigation Space and Time (Alaska, Feb. '95).
His upcoming launches include PHAZE-Physics of Auroral Zone
Electrons (Alaska, '97), and CAPER-Cleft Accelerated Plasma
Energization Rocket (Norway, '98). Finally, Professor Kintner
is studying satellites, including POLAR-Plasma Wave Investigations,
(launched March '96), and Freja-Plasma Wave Investigations,
(launched October '92). |
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Professor Charles E. Seyler |
Professor Seyler is currently involved in three projects related to
space plasma theory and simulation. His research efforts are closely
tied to those of his graduate students: Andrew Clark and
Pete Schuck. Together with Pete and
funding support from NASA, Professor
Seyler is trying to understand the phenomenon of lower hybrid
waves trapped within plasma density cavities. These have been
observed by satellites and sounding rockets to be associated with the
transverse acceleration of oxygen ions in the upper ionosphere.
Another project in which Andy Clark is involved that is funded by the
National Science Foundation is to understand how plasma waves, called
Alfven waves, that originate from the distant magnetosphere cause
particle acceleration when they break up in the upper ionosphere at latitudes
associated with the aurora. Professor Seyler, with
funding support from NSF and the United States Air Force, is trying to
understand how an equatorial ionospheric phenomenon called equatorial
spread-F develops from the graviational Rayleigh-Taylor instability
(heavy fluid on top of a light fluid) when the ionosphere has a
strong shear in the horizontal plasma flow. |
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Laurie S. Shelton |
As Editor for the
Space Plasma Physics Group, Laurie S. Shelton is
a writing and editing consultant for faculty, staff, and students,
and desktop publisher of articles and
proposals submitted to scientific journals and government agencies.
She is also production manager for multiple international research
and academic publications, including the Active
Experiments Newsletter (published at Phillips Laboratory, MA,
and edited by
Michael C. Kelley),
and a GPS Laboratory textbook
(Paul M.
Kintner) currently in preparation.
A singer with a B.A. in Performance and a minor in
computer programming, Laurie completed
her M.M. in Voice Performance at Ithaca
College, where she held a TA in private
voice and lyric diction. She is a 1996 "Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges" and an alumna of the
National Theatre of Great Britan Summer Acting Conservatory.
The soprano has performed
with the Ithaca Opera Association, Cornell Savoyards,
and Elmira College Theater, in concerts with the U.C. Santa
Barbara Summer Vocal Institute for two seasons,
and with the MCA Center for the Performing
Arts Lieder/Art Song Program.
Her current research includes rehabilitation of singers with bone
conduction hearing loss, and the effects of self-talk in singers.
Laurie has also published several articles in the
NATS Journal
of Singing.
In her spare time, Laurie is a poet.
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Dr. Wesley E. Swartz |
Dr. Swartz came to Cornell in 1972 with a B.S. in EE from
Drexel University,
and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
Penn State.
He is now a Senior Research Associate at
Cornell University.
a Senior Member of
IEEE,
a Life Member of the
American Geophysical Union,
a member of
AAAS
and the
International Scientific
Radio Union. His research interests are in space plasma physics, coherent and
incoherent scatter radar
probing of the atmosphere, signal processing, digital
systems, radar systems and techniques. Dr. Swartz directed the construction of the
Cornell University Portable Radar Interferometer
and its deployment for many special
campaigns
in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Brazil,
Kwajalein (S. Pacific), Puerto Rico, and St. Croix, as well as here in
Ithaca and in other U.S. locations. He has been an active user of the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto
Rico and the
Jicamaca Radio Observatory in Peru. |
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Susie Swartz
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Susie handles the procurement and shipment of scientific
equipment and supplies for the
Jicamarca Radio Observatory
near Lima, Peru. In her spare time, she teaches and sings.
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