Dr. Robert Langel

Phone : 301-614-6473

Email : langel@geomag.gsfc.nasa.gov

Building/Office : 33/F321A

Mailing Address : Code 921, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771

RESEARCH AREA EXPERIENCE:

Geomagnetism, magnetosphereic physics, near Earth magnetic fields, geophysics

PROJECT SCIENTIST:

Magsat Project Study Scientist (for magnetic fields):

Geopotential Research Mission

MFE/Magnolia

Aristoteles

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Oersted

EDUCATION:

1959 - B.S. Wheaton College

1971 - M.S. University of Maryland

1973 - Ph.D. University of Maryland

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

1959-1962 Physicist, Optics, Naval Research Laboratory

1963-1964 Physicist, Microwave Antennas, NASA/GSFC

1964-1974 Physicist, Magnetospheric Physics, Near Earth Magnetic Fields, NASA/GSFC

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Geophysical Union, Fellow of the Union

International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy

1983-1987 Vice Chair: Division V

1987-1991 Chair, Working Group I-1

1987-1991 Co-Chair, Working Group V-7

RECIPIENT:

1982- NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

1983-1984 Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University

1990-1996 Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research

1992-1993 Visiting Scholar, Purdue Universtiy, Class taught in Geomagnetism

1994- Visiting Scholar, Copenhagen University

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1996 "The Use of Data from the UARS, POGS, and DE-1 Satellites in Modeling of Earth's Main Magnetic Field," R.A. Langel, J.A. Conrad, T.J. Sabaka, R.T. Baldwin, Jour. Geomagn. Geoelectr.

1996 The Geomagnetic Field 1900-1995, Including the Large-Scale Field from Magnetospheric Sources, and the NASA Candidate Models for the 1995 Revision of the IGRF," T.J. Sabaka, R.A. Langel, R.T. Baldwin, J.A. Conrad, Journ. Geomagn. Geoelectr.

1996 "Maps of the Lithospheric Magnetic Field at Earth's Surface from Scalar Satellite Data," R.A. Langel, and K.A. Whaler, Geophys. Res., Lett., 1, 41-44.

1996 "Reduction of a Large, Global Satellite Magnetic Anomaly Data Set Using a Conjugate Gradient, Equivalent Source Dipole Formalism," M.E. Purucker, T.J. Sabaka, R.A. Langel, Geophys. Res., Lett., 1, 41-44.

1996 "The Near-Earth Magnetic Field from Magnetospheric and Quiet Day Ionospheric Sources and How it is Modeled," R.A. Langel, T.J. Sabaka, R.T. Baldwin, J. Conrad, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., accepted.

1996 "Minimal Crustal Magnetizations from Satellite Data," K.A. Whaler, R.A. Langel, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., accepted.

1995 "An Investigation of a Correlation/Covariance Method of Signal Extraction with Satellite Magnetic Anomaly Data as Example," R.A. Langel, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 20,137-20,157.

1995 "Toward an Improved Distribution of Magnetic Observatories for Modeling of the Main Geomagnetic Field and its Temporal Change," R.A. Langel, R.T. Baldwin, A.W. Green, Jour. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 47, 475-508.

1995 "Revised Vector and Scalar Magnsat Magnetic Anomaly Maps," D. Ravat, R.A. Langel, M. Purucker, J. Arkani-Hamid, D.E. Alsdorf, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 20,111-20,136.

SUBMITTED PAPERS

1996 The First-Degree, Near -Earth, Magnetic Field from Magnetospheric Sources from 1900-1995," R.A. Langel, T.J. Sabaka, R.T. Baldwin, J. Conrad, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

1995 "Magsat Maps of the Pacific Ocean Region," M.E. Purucker, R.A. Langel, International Geological/Geophysical Atlas of the Pacific Ocean, submitted.

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