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Edgar A. Bering, III - Curriculum Vitae

CONTENTS

Personal Information

Education

Chronology of Experience

Professional and Honorary Societies

Honors and Awards

Consulting

Summary of Experience

Refereed Publications

Technical Reports

Invited Talks

Abstracts

Past Campaigns

Data Base Description

Data File Access

Work in Progress

Future Plans

Research Grants and Contracts

Instruction

Service

 

 

Barbara and Janet
My Fami;y

PERSONAL

 

Edgar Andrew Bering, III

Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Born Jan. 9, 1946, New York, N. Y.

United States Citizen

Married, Two Children, Edgar, and Janet

 

EDUCATION

B.A., cum laude in Physics, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., June 1967.

Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, June 1974.

Dissertation Title: Auroral Zone Electric Current Measurement on Sounding Rockets.

 

CHRONOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE

                        

University of Houston, Houston, Texas

1974: Research Scientist

1975-1981: Assistant Professor of Physics

1981-1989: Associate Professor of Physics

1989-1998: Professor of Physics

1998-present: Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Member of Space Physics Group

Aurora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participated in experiments to measure electron bremsstrahlung beneath auroras, electron bremsstrahlung accompanying both natural and triggered VLF events, auroral zone electric fields, plasmapause electric fields, electric fields at high altitude due to thunderstorms, and the electromagnetic radiation spectrum of lightning at high altitude, VLF magnetic fields accompanying active experiments in the ionosphere, dc plasma properties in the ionosphere near pulsating aurora, electric fields near the magnetospheric cusp and atmospheric electric parameters at the South Pole. Presently involved in the development of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) at the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, Ad Astra Rocket Company. 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

2004-2005: Senior Member

2005-present: Associate Fellow

American Geophysical Union

American Physical Society

Commission H, U.S. National Committee, International Union of Radio Science (USNC,URSI)

New York Academy of Science

Sigma Xi

HONORS AND AWARDS

UNDERGRADUATE:

Harvard College Scholarship

Dean’s List

B.A. cum laude

POSTGRADUATE:

1981, 1986: Antarctica Service Medal

1984: Nominee, Mayor’s Annual Volunteer Service Awards

1984-present: Listed in Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology

1987-present: Listed in Who’s Who in the World

1993: Greenwood Award, City of Houston

2000: Rotary National Award for Space Achievement, Stellar Award, Team Category, member, VASIMIR Team

2001-present: member, Commission H, USNC, URSI

2004: AIAA Best Paper of the Year, Plasmadynamics and Lasers

2005: AIAA Special Service Citation

 

 

CONSULTING

1983: Aerospace Consultant

Associated International Insurance Co., Los Angeles, Calif.

1984-1987: Partner

IF&G Technical Consultants, Houston, Texas

1986: Consultant

Bell and Trotti, Inc., Houston, Texas

1987-present: Officer and Director

IF&G Technical Consultants, Inc., Houston, Texas

2005-2008: SAIC

NASA proposal review consultant

 

 

I am available to consult on your problem. Send me e- mail at <eabering@uh.edu>.


 

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Area of Specialty

Research

 Doctoral degree and thirty-four years post-doctoral experience in space plasma physics. I have extensive hands-on experience in sounding rocket (40 flights) and balloon (57 flights) operations. I have some experience (1 experiment) in the preparation of satellite experiments, in addition to a summer's work at the Spacecraft Techniques Laboratory of COMSAT. I have participated in the design, construction and interpretation of data from plasma probe, electric field, magnetic field, plasma wave, energetic particle and x-ray detection experiments. As a necessary consequence of this work, I have extensive experience in computer programming and related aspects of electronic data processing, including hardware operation and repair. I am actively involved in Space Plasma Physics Research at this time.

Instruction

I have thirty-four years experience teaching the basic areas of physics at all levels. In addition, I have taught astrophysics at the senior undergraduate level and space plasma physics at the graduate level.

Areas of Diversification

Research

As an undergraduate and graduate student, I worked as an R.A. in neurophysiology, neurosurgery, pharmacology and marine biology laboratories. Within physics, I have some experience with high energy physics.

Instruction

As a graduate student, I was first a Teaching Assistant and then Head Teaching Assistant of an interdisciplinary natural sciences course that required me to teach both chemistry and biology at the college level.

Other Skills

Competitive Snow Skiing -

10 years of active competition, 3 years of coaching and 10 years of officiating (including some overlap, of course) culminating in assisting at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

 

Fine Art -

Formerly enrolled as a student at the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. School of Art. I am pursuing a secondary vocation as a painter and sculptor.

 

Theater -

Over 40 production credits, including 24 lead credits as either producer or designer.

                 

Community Service -

38 years experience as an officer or director of a number of community service organizations.

 


 

 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1.         Split Langmuir probe measurements of current density and electric field in an aurora, E. A. Bering, M.C. Kelley and F.S. Mozer, J. Geophys. Res., 78, 2201-2213 (1973).

2.         Theory and operation of the split Langmuir probe, E.A. Bering, M.C. Kelley, F.S. Mozer and U.V. Fahleson, Planet. Space Sci., 21, 1983-2001 (1973).

3.         Properties of the wake of small Langmuir probes and sounding rockets, E.A. Bering, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 37, 119-129 (1975).

4.         A measurement of perpendicular current density in an aurora, E.A. Bering, and F.S. Mozer, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 3861-3872 (1975).

5.         Observations of an intense thermal ion Birkeland current and associated intense narrow band electric field oscillations, E.A. Bering, M.C. Kelley, and F.S. Mozer, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 4612-4620 (1975).

6.         Evidence that the electrostatic ion cyclotron instability is saturated by ion heating," M.C. Kelley, E.A. Bering, and F.S. Mozer, Phys. Fluids, 18, 1590-1597 (1975).

7.          Investigation of the electric field below 80 km from a parachute deployed payload, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 1925-1932 (1977).

8.         Correlative effects of VLF chorus activity and electron precipitation near the plasmapause, H. Leverenz, J.L. Roeder, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, and J. Lavergnat, J. Geomag. Geoelec., 30, 357-358 (1978).

9.         Some aspects of the interrelationship of magnetospheric substorm-associated particle precipitation and thunderstorm electric fields, E.A. Bering, T.J. Rosenberg, D. Detrick, J.R. Benbrook, D.L. Matthews and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geomag. Geoelec., 30, 359-360 (1978).

10.       On the relationship of ~3 mHz (Pc5) electric, magnetic, and particle variations, C. G. Maclennan, L.J. Lanzerotti, A. Hasegawa, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, W.R. Sheldon, T.J. Rosenberg and D.L. Matthews, Geophysical Research Letters, 5, 403-406 (1978).

11.       Longitudinal variation in the high-altitude X-ray flux during quiet geomagnetic conditions, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, H. Leverenz and J.L. Roeder, Space Research, XIX, 347-350 (1979).

12.       Artificial stimulation of auroral electron acceleration by intense field aligned currents, G. Holmgren, R. Boström, M.C. Kelley, P.M. Kintner, R. Lundin, U.V. Fahleson, E.A. Bering, and W.R. Sheldon, Geophysical Research Letters, 6, 789-792 (1979).

13.       Electric fields, electron precipitation, and VLF radiation during a simultaneous magnetospheric substorm and atmospheric thunderstorm, E.A.Bering, T.J. Rosenberg, J.R. Benbrook, D. Detrick, D.L. Matthews, M.J. Rycroft, M.A. Saunders and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 55-72 (1980).

14.       Problems with mesospheric electric field measurements, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook and W.R. Sheldon, Nature, 283, 695 (1980).

15.       Trigger, an active release experiment that stimulated auroral particle precipitation and wave emissions, G. Holmgren, R. Boström, M.C. Kelley, P.M. Kintner, R. Lundin, U.V. Fahleson and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 5043-5053 (1980).

16.       The results from the X-ray bremsstrahlung experiment of project Trigger, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, E.G. Stansbery, W.R. Sheldon and J.L. Roeder, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 5079-5095 (1980).

17.       X-ray measurements during project ARAKS, J.L. Roeder, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering and H. Leverenz, Annales de Géophysique, 36, 401-409 (1980).

18.       Simultaneous rocket and radar measurements of currents in an auroral arc, R.M. Robinson, R.R. Vondrak, H.R. Anderson, P. Cloutier and E.A. Bering, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 7703-7717 (1981).

19.       Evidence for beam stimulated precipitation of high energy electrons, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, J.L. Roeder and W.R. Sheldon, in Artificial Particle Beams in Space Plasma Studies, edited by B. Grandal, pp 147-157, Plenum Press, New York, N.Y., (1981).

20.       An upper limit on the aperture separation of ion drift meters, E.A. Bering, U.V. Fahleson, and K.G. Weber, Astrophysics and Space Science, 83, 37-49 (1982).

21.       Quiet-time electron precipitation at L=4 in the South Atlantic Anomaly, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, H. Leverenz, J.L. Roeder and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 189-200 (1983).

22.       A sounding rocket observation of an apparent wake generated parallel electric field, E.A. Bering, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 961-979 (1983).

23.       Apparent electrostatic ion cyclotron waves in the diffuse aurora, E.A. Bering, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10, 647-650 (1983).

24.       The plasma wave environment of an auroral arc, 1., Electrostatic ion cyclotron waves in the diffuse aurora, E.A. Bering, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 1635-1649 (1984).

25.       The plasma wave environment of an auroral arc, 2, ULF waves on an auroral arc boundary, C. Gelpi and E.A.Bering, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10847-10851 (1984).

26.       Waterhole auroral arc modification experiments: electrodynamic response, B.A. Whalen, A.W. Yau, F. Creutzberg, D.D. Wallis, A.G. McNamara, F.R. Harris, M.B. Pongratz, P.M. Kintner, J. Labelle, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, P.A. Forsyth, and R A. Kochler, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 8387-8396 (1985).

27.       X-ray microbursts and VLF chorus, J.L. Roeder, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 10975-10982 (1985).

28.       The plasma wave environment of an auroral arc, 3. VLF hiss, E.A. Bering, J.E. Maggs, and H.R. Anderson, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 7581-7605 (1987).

29.       The 1985-86 South Pole Balloon Campaign, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, J.M. Howard, D.M. Oró, E.G. Stansbery, J.R. Theall, D.L. Matthews and T.J. Rosenberg, Proceedings of the Nagata Symposium on Geomagnetically Conjugate Studies and the Workshop on Antarctic Middle and Upper Atmosphere Physics Which Were Held at SCAR XIX, Memoirs of the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan, Special Issue No. 48, 313-317 (1987).

30.       Electron precipitation near L=4 : Longitudinal variation,W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, H. Leverenz, J.L. Roeder, and E.G. Stansbery, Adv. Space Res., 7(8), 49-52 (1987).

31.       Conjugate ionospheric electric field measurements, E.A. Bering and J.R. Benbrook, Annales Geophysicæ, (Series A), 5A, 485-502 (1987).

32.       Observations of the stratospheric conductivity and its variation at three latitudes, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, D.M. Oró, C.O. Seubert and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 3879-3892 (1988).

33.       Longitudinal differences in electron precipitation near L=4, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, H. Leverenz, J.L. Roeder, E.G. Stansbery, and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 11385-11404 (1988).

34.       Rocket investigations of electron precipitation and VLF waves in the Antarctic upper atmosphere, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, Revs. Geophys., 26, 519-534 (1988).

35.       Dayside energetic electron precipitation over the South Pole (Λ = 75°), D.L. Matthews, T.J. Rosenberg, E.A. Bering, and J.R. Benbrook, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 12941-12945 (1988).

36.       Comment on “Highly relativistic magnetospheric electrons: A role in coupling to the middle atmosphere?”, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 1449-1450 (1988).

37.       Impulsive electric and magnetic field perturbations observed over South Pole: Flux transfer events?, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne, B.Liao, J.R. Theall, L.J. Lanzerotti, C.G. Maclennan, A. Wolfe, and G.L. Siscoe, Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 1545-1548 (1988).

38.       Summertime stratospheric wind measurements above the South Pole, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, B. Liao, and J.R. Theall, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 51, 51-60 (1989).

39.       ELF and VLF waves in the polar clefts and caps, E.A. Bering, in Electrodynamic Coupling in the Polar Clefts and Caps, edited by A. Egeland and P. E. Sandholt, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp 211-229 (1989).

40.       Balloon observations of the electric field over South Pole: Convection patterns, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne, D. Liang and Z.-M. Lin, in Electrodynamic Coupling in the Polar Clefts and Caps, edited by A. Egeland and P. E. Sandholt, D. Reidel, Dordrecht pp 137-150 (1989).

41.       Particle radiation near the orbit of the vacuum wake shield, E.A. Bering, and A. Ignatiev, J. Spacecraft Rockets, 27, 38-42 (1990).

42.       Observations of ionospheric flux ropes above South Pole, Z. M. Lin, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, G.J. Byrne, D. Liang, B. Liao, and J.R. Theall, in Physics of Magnetic Flux Ropes, AGU Geophysical Monograph 58, pp 581-590 (1990).

43.       Solar radiation (190-230 nm) in the stratosphere: Implications for photoelectric emissions from instrumentation at balloon altitudes, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, and D. M. Oró, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 5557-5566 (1990).

44.       Solar wind properties observed during high-latitude impulsive perturbation events," E. A. Bering, L. J. Lanzerotti, J. R. Benbrook, Z.-M. Lin, C. G. Maclennan, A. Wolfe, R. E. Lopez, and E. Friis-Christensen, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 583-586 (1990).

45.       The longitude dependence of whistler and chorus characteristics observed on the ground near L=4, A.J. Smith, D.L. Carpenter, Y.Corcuff, J.P.S. Rash, and E.A. Bering, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 275-284 (1991).

46.       Balloon observations of stratospheric electricity above the South Pole: Vertical electric field, conductivity and conduction current, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 53, 859-868 (1991).

47.       The intense magnetic storm of 19 December 1980: Observations at L=4, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, R. Haacke, J.R. Dudeney, L.J. Lanzerotti, C.G. Maclennan and T.J. Rosenberg, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 5597-5617 (1991).

48.       Measurement of vertical atmospheric electric current at a network of sites in Antarctica including manned stations and automatic geophysical observatories (Project Description), E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne, and A.A. Few, Publs. Inst. Geophys. Pol. Acad. Sc., \/ D-35(238), 119-135 (1991).

49.       Ground based instrumentation for measurements of atmospheric conduction current and electric field at the South Pole, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, A.A. Few, G.J. Morris, W.J. Trabucco, and E.W. Paschal, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 2611-2617 (1993).

50.       Investigation of S3-2 satellite data for local time variation of energetic electron precipitation, S. Robbe, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, and A. L. Vampola, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 3845-3854 (1994).

51.       Particle and field signatures during pseudobreakup and major expansion onset, R. Nakamura, D.N. Baker, T. Yamamoto, R.D. Belian, E. A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook and J. R. Theall, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 207-222 (1994).

52.       Balloon observations of nightside Pc 5 quasi-electrostatic waves above the South Pole, B. Liao, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Theall, L.J. Lanzerotti, and C.G. Maclennan, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 3879-3892 (1994).

53.       Experimental results of Polar Patrol Balloon project in Antarctica, M. Ejiri, H. Akiyama, R. Fujii, M. Hayashi, Y. Hirasima, A. Kadokura, H. Kanzawa, M. Kodama, H. Miyaoka, H. Murakami, M. Nakagawa, M. Namiki, J. Nishimura, S. Ohta, H. Suzuki, F. Tohyama, Y. Tonegawa, N. Yajima, T. Yamagami, H. Yamagishi, M.D. Yamanaka, and E.A. Bering, III, Proc. NIPR Symp. Upper Atmos Phys., 8, 60-64, (1995).

54.       Balloon measurements above the South Pole: Study of ionospheric transmission of ULF waves, E.A. Bering, B. Liao, J. R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne, J. R. Theall, L. J. Lanzerotti, and C. G. Maclennan, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 7807-7820, (1995).

55.       Statistical studies of impulsive events at high latitudes, Z. M. Lin, J. R. Benbrook, E.A.Bering, III, B. Liao, L. J. Lanzerotti, C. G. Maclennan, A. Wolfe, and E. Friis-Christensen, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 7553-7566, (1995).

56.       Intense 2.3 Hz electric field pulsations in the stratosphere at high auroral latitude, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, J. Geophys. Res. , 100, 7791-7806, (1995).

57.       The global circuit: Passive load, proxy variable or active element?, E. A. Bering, III, Rev. Geophys., 33(Supplement), 845-862 (1995) (U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994).

58.       A convection enhancement event observed with the Polar Patrol Balloon #4, Y. Ebihara, A. Kadokura, Y. Tonegawa, F. Tohyama, N. Sato, Y. Hirasima, M. Namiki, E.A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, and M. Ejiri, Proc. NIPR Symp. Upper Atmos Phys., 9, 12-24, (1996).

59.       The global circuit, E.A. Bering, III, A. A. Few and J. R. Benbrook, Physics Today, 51(10), 24-30, 1998.

60.       Ionospheric electric fields from stratospheric balloon-borne probes, R.H. Holzworth and E.A. Bering, III, Geophysical Monograph Series : Measurement Techniques for Space Plasmas, edited by R. Pfaff, J. Borovsky, and D. Young, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC (1998), pp 79-84.

61.       Simultaneous electric and magnetic field observations of Pc 1-2, and Pc 3 pulsations, E. A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, M. J. Engebretson, and R. L. Arnoldy Jr., J. Geophys. Res., 103, 6741-6761, 1998.

62.       The geoelectric field - a link between the troposphere and the ionosphere, G. B. Burns, A. V. Frank-Kamenetsky, O. A. Troshichev, E. A. Bering III, and V. O. Papitashvili, Ann. Glac.,103, 6741-6761, 1998.

63.       On the hourly contribution of global lightning to the atmospheric electric field, M. Füllekrug, A. C. Fraser-Smith, E. A. Bering, III and A. A. Few, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 61, 745-750, 1999.

64.       The global electric circuit, E. A. Bering, III, A. A. Few, and J. R. Benbrook, Parity, 4, 33-41, 1999.

65.       The geoelectric field at Vostok, Antarctica: it's relation to the Interplanetary Magnetic Field and the polar cap potential, A. V. Frank-Kamenetsky, G. B. Burns, O. A. Troshichev, V. O. Papitashvili, E. A. Bering, III and W. J. R. French, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 61, 1347-1356, 1999.

66.       The hundred year hunt for the red sprite, W. A. Lyons, R.A. Armstrong, E. A. Bering, III, and E. R. Williams, EOS, Trans. AGU., 81(33), 373-377, 2000.

67.       Sprite and elve electrodynamics, E. A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, J. A. Garrett, A. Paredes, E. M. Wescott, D. R. Moudry, D. D. Sentman, H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, W. A. Lyons, Adv. Space Res., 30, 2585-2595, 2002.

68.       The electrodynamics of sprites, E. A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, J. A. Garrett, A. Paredes, E. M. Wescott, D. R. Moudry, D. D. Sentman, H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, W. A. Lyons, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2001GL013267, 2002.

69.       Polar Patrol Balloon experiment in Antarctica during 2002-2003, A. Kadokura, H. Yamagishi, N. Sato, M. Ejiri, H. Hirosawa, T. Yamagami, S. Torii, F. Tohyama, M. Nakagawa, T. Okada, and E. A. Bering, Adv. Polar Upper Atmos. Res., 16, 157-172, 2002.

70.       The geoelectric field at Vostok, Antarctica, R. C. Corney, G.B. Burns, K. Michael, A. V. Frank-Kamenetsky, O.A. Troishichev, E.A. Bering, V.O. Papitashvili, and A. Breed, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 65, 345-354, 2003.

71.       Multi-station studies of the simultaneous occurrence rate of Pc 3 micropulsations and magnetic impulsive events, D. W. Shields, E. A. Bering, III, A. Alaniz, S. E. M. Mason, W. Guo, R. L. Arnoldy Jr., M. J. Engebretson, W. J. Hughes, D. L. Murr, L. J. Lanzerotti, and C. G. Maclennan, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A6), 1225 (12 pages), doi:10.1029/2002JA009397, 2003.

72.       Progress in Experimental Research of the VASIMR Engine, J. P. Squire, F. R. Chang Díaz, T. W. Glover, V. T. Jacobson, D. G. Chavers, R. D. Bengtson, E. A. Bering III, R. W. Boswell, R. H. Goulding, M. Light, Proceedings of Open Systems, July 1-5, 2002, Jeju Island, Korea, 2002, Transactions of Fusion Technology, 43, 111-117, 2003. (Invited)

73.       Long term changes in the electrical conductivity of the stratosphere, E. A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, R. H. Holzworth, G. J. Byrne, and S. P. Gupta, Adv. Space Res., 32, 1725-1735, 2003.

74.       Calibrating and deriving physical parameters using plasma contactor data from the international space station, E. A. Bering, III, S. Koontz, D. Evans, I. Katz, B. Gardner, R. M. Suggs, J.I. Minow, P.. Dalton, D.C. Ferguson, G.B. Hillard, J.L.Counts, H. Barsamian, J. Kern, R. Mikatarian, Adv. Space Res., 32, 2343-2348, 2003.

75.       Observations of transient luminous events (TLEs) associated with negative cloud to ground (-CG) lightning strokes E. A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, L. Bhusal, J. A. Garrett, A. M. Paredes, E. M. Wescott, D. R. Moudry, D. D. Sentman, H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, W. A. Lyons, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(5), L05104, doi10.1029/2003GL018659, 03 March 2004.

76.       Statistics and properties of TLE’s found in 1999 sprites balloon campaign, L.Bhusal, E.A.Bering, III, J.R.Benbrook, J.A.Garrett, A.M. Paredes, E.M.Wescott, D.R.Moudry, D.D.Sentman, H.C.Stenbaek-Nielsen, W.A.Lyons, Adv. Space Res., 34, 1811-1814, 2004.

77.       The results from the 1999 sprites balloon campaign, E. A. Bering, III, L. Bhusal, J. R. Benbrook, J. A. Garrett, A. P. Jackson, E. M. Wescott, D. R. Moudry, D. D. Sentman, H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, and W. A. Lyons, Adv. Space Res., 34, 1782-1791, 2004.

78.       Seasonal variations of atmospheric electricity measured at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, B. N. Reddell, J. R. Benbrook, E. A. Bering III, E. N. Cleary, and A. A. Few, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A09308(17 pages), doi:10.1029/2004JA010536, 2004.

79.       The uses of RF waves in space propulsion systems, E. A. Bering, III, F.R. Chang-Díaz, J. P. Squire, Radio Science Bulletin, 310, 92-106, 2004. (Invited)                   

80.       Inter-annual consistency of seasonal differences in diurnal variations of the geoelectric field, G. B. Burns, A. V. Frank-Kamenetsky, O. V. Troshichev, E. A. Bering, and B. D. Reddell, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10106(14 pages), doi:10.1029/2004JD005469, 2005.

81.       Latitude gradients in the natural variance in stratospheric conductivity - implications for studies of long term changes, E. A. Bering, III, J. R. Benbrook, R. H. Holzworth, G. J. Byrne, and S. P. Gupta, Adv. Space Res., 35, 1385-1397, 2005.

82.       Balloon observations of temporal and spatial fluctuations in stratospheric conductivity, E. A. Bering, III, R. H. Holzworth, B. D. Reddell, M. F. Kokorowski, A. Kadokura, H. Yamagishi, N. Sato, M. Ejiri, H. Hirosawa, T. Yamagami, S. Torii, F. Tohyama, M. Nakagawa, and T. Okada, Adv. Space Res., 35, 1434-1449, 2005.

83.       Balloon observations of temporal variation in the global circuit compared to global lightning activity, R. H. Holzworth, E. A. Bering III, M. F. Kokorowski, E. H. Lay, B. D. Reddell, A. Kadokura, H. Yamagishi, N. Sato, M. Ejiri, H. Hirosawa, T. Yamagami, S. Torii, F. Tohyama, M. Nakagawa, T. Okada, and R. L. Dowden, Adv. Space Res., 36, 2223-2228, 2005.       

84.       Acceleration of Dense Flowing Plasmas using ICRF Power in the VASIMR Experiment, J.P. Squire, and the VASIMR Team, 16th Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, edited by S.J. Wukitch and P.T. Bonoli, Park City, UT, AIP Press, Volume 787, pg 421, 2005.                                         

85.       Antarctic polar plateau vertical electric field variations across heliocentric current sheet crossings, G.B. Burns, B.A. Tinsley, A.R. Klekociuk, O.A. Troshichev, A.V. Frank-Kamenetsky, M.L. Duldig, E.A. Bering, and J.M. Clem, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 68, 639-654, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2005.10.008, 2006.

86.       Rapid fluctuations of stratospheric electric field following a solar energetic particle event, M. Kokorowski, J. G. Sample, R. H. Holzworth, E. A. Bering, S. D. Bale, J. B. Blake, A. B. Collier, A. R. W. Hughes, E. Lay, R. P. Lin, M. P. McCarthy, R. M. Millan, H. Moraal, T. P. O'Brien, G. K. Parks, M. Pulupa, B. D. Reddell, D. M. Smith, P. H. Stoker, and L. Woodger, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L20105, 2006.

87.       Interplanetary magnetic field and atmospheric electric circuit influences on ground level pressure at Vostok, G.B. Burns, B.A. Tinsley, A.V. Frank-Kamenetsky and E.A. Bering, J.Geophys. Res., 112, D04103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007246, 2007.

88.        Electromagnetic ion cyclotron resonance heating in the VASIMR, E. A. Bering, F. R. Chang-Díaz, J. P. Squire, M. Brukardt, T. W. Glover, R. D. Bengtson, V. T. Jacobson, G. E. McCaskill, and L. Cassady, Adv. Space Res., doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.09.034, 2007. (in press)

89.        The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics pre-college outreach program, E. A. Bering, III, L. Bacon, K. K. Copper, L. J. Hansen, and M. J. Sanchez, Adv. Space Res., doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.11.009, 2007. (in press)

90.        Magnetospheric electric field variations caused by storm-time shock fronts, M. Kokorowski, E. A. Bering, III, M. Ruohoniemi, J. G. Sample, R. H. Holzworth, S. D. Bale, J. B. Blake, A. B. Collier, A. R. Hughes, E. Lay, R. P. Lin, M. P. McCarthy, R. M. Millan, H. Morall, T. P. O'Brien, G. K. Parks, M. Pulupa, B. D. Reddell, D. M. Smith, P. H. Stoker, and L. Woodger, Adv. Space Res., doi:1016/j.asr.2008.03.006, 2008. (in press)

91.        Simultaneous observations of Pc 1 micropulsation activity and stratospheric electrodynamic perturbations on 27 January 2003, E. Bering, M. Engebretson, R. Holzworth, A. Kadokura, M. Kokorowski, B. Reddell, J. Posch, and H. Yamagishi, Adv. Space Res., 2008. (submitted to)

92.        Variations in cloud cover and the fair weather vertical electric field, D. R. Kniveton, B. A. Tinsley, G. B. Burns, E. A. Bering, and O. A. Troshichev, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 2008. (submitted to)

93.        First simultaneous observations of MeV electron precipitation from multiple balloon-borne spectrometers, J. G. Sample, M. Kokorowski, M. P. McCarthy, R. M. Millan, S. D. Bale, E. A. Bering, J. B. Blake, A. B. Collier, R. H. Holzworth, A. R. Hughes, E. Lay, R. P. Lin, H. Moraal, T. P. O'Brien, G. K. Parks, M. Pulupa, B. D. Reddell, D. M. Smith, P. Stoker, and L. Woodger, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2008. (submitted to)

94.        Validating a plasma momentum flux sensor with a Hall thruster mounted on an inverted pendulum thrust stand, B. W. Longmier, A. D. Gallimore, F. R. Chang-Díaz, J. P. Squire, T. W. Glover, D. G. Chavers, E. A. Bering III, and B. M. Reid, J. Prop. Power, 2008. (submitted to)

 

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TECHNICAL REPORTS

 

This section includes a bunch of stuff that appears in print, but in unrefereed places.

 

1.         In Situ and Radar Measurements of Plasma Properties in the Vicinity of an Auroral Arc, E.A. Bering, III, R.M. Robinson, and J.D. Kelly, U.H. Space Physics Tech. Rep. 84-1, 70 pages (1984).

2.         The 1985-86 South Pole Balloon Campaign, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, J.M. Howard, D.M. Oró, E.G. Stansbery, J.R. Theall, D.L. Matthews, and T.J. Rosenberg, Antarctic J. United States, 20(5), 267-269 (1986).

3.         Lloyd's Mirror at 250 Mhz. An amusing footnote on Antarctic telemetry, E.A. Bering, III, J R. Benbrook, J.R. Theall, Antarctic J. United States, 20(5), 270-273 (1986).

4.         A preliminary search for evidence of flux transfer events seen in the ionospheric electric field above the South Geographic Pole, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, and G.J. Byrne, Antarctic J. United States, 22(5), 274-275 (1987).

5.         Balloon-borne measurements of energetic electron precipitation in the vicinity of South Pole Station, D.L. Matthews, T.J. Rosenberg, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, III, Antarctic J. United States, 22(5), 276-277 (1987).

6.         Implementation of Future Programs in Antarctic Upper Atmosphere Physics, T.J. Rosenberg, R.L. Arnoldy, E. A. Bering, III, and U. S. Inan, Report of an ad hoc Committee of the Polar Research Board, Polar Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. (1987).

7.         A summary of recent results from the 1985-1986 South Pole Balloon Campaign, E. A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne, D.L. Matthews, and T.J. Rosenberg, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY, The Institute of High Voltage Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 112-117 (1988).

8.         Stratospheric Conductivity Measurements above the South Pole, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, III, B. Liao, and J.R. Theall, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY, The Institute of High Voltage Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 788-793 (1988).

9.         The Role of the Drift Loss Cone in the Precipitation of Trapped Electrons at Mid-Latitudes, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, and E. A. Bering, III, U.H. Space Physics Tech. Rep. 88-1, 14 pages (1988).

10.       Neutral wave driven dynamo production of Ultra-Low-Frequency fluctuations in the ionospheric electric field, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne and J.R. Theall, Antarctic J. United States, 23(5), 208-209 (1988).

11.       Internal gravity waves in the stratosphere above the South Pole, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, III, B. Liao, and J.R. Theall, Antarctic J. United States, 23(5), 205-206 (1988).

12.       Dawn sector energetic electron precipitation above the South Geographic Pole, J.R. Theall, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, III, D.L. Matthews, and T.J. Rosenberg, Antarctic J. United States, 23(5), 206-208 (1988).

13.       Balloon observations of ULF waves in the electric field above the South Pole, B. Liao, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, III, G.J. Byrne, and J.R. Theall, Antarctic J. United States, 23(5), 202-204 (1988).

14.       Balloonborne measurements of energetic dayside electron precipitation at South Pole Station, D.L. Matthews, T.J. Rosenberg, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, III, Antarctic J. United States, 23(5), 198-201 (1988).

15.       Balloon observations of the electric field over South Pole: Convection patterns, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, and D. Liang, Antarctic J.United States, 24(5), 263-265 (1989).

16.       Examples of high latitude electric and magnetic field perturbations that were not accompanied by solar wind pressure fluctuations, E.A. Bering, III, Z.-M. Lin, Antarctic J. United States, 24(5), 266-268 (1989).

17.       Balloon-borne measurements of the atmospheric-electrical circuit at the South Pole, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, III, Antarctic J. United States, 24(5), 261-262 (1989).

18.       Ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere: Implications for photoelectric contamination of measurements from antarctic balloon campaigns, G.J. Byrne, J.R. Benbrook, and E.A. Bering, III, Antarctic J. United States, 25(5), 285-286 (1990).

19.       Initial results from measurements of atmospheric conduction currents and electric fields at the South Pole, E.A. Bering, III, G.J. Byrne, A.A. Few, and G.A. Morris, Antarctic J. United States, 26(5), 291-294 (1991).

20.       Measurements of atmospheric conduction currents and electric fields at the South Pole, G.J. Byrne, E.A. Bering, III, A.A. Few, and G.A. Morris, Antarctic J. United States, 26(5), 294-297 (1991)

21.       Intense 2.3 hertz electric field pulsations in the stratosphere at high auroral latitude, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook and B. Liao, Antarctic J. United States, 27(5), 304-306 (1992).

22.       Surface observations of global atmospheric electric phenomena at Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, A.A. Few, G.A. Morris, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, R. Chadwick, and G.J. Byrne, Antarctic J. United States, 27(5), 307-309 (1992).

23.       Maxwell current density measurements at South Pole: evaluation of measurements and instrument performance, A.A. Few, G.A. Morris, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, R. Chadwick, and G.J. Byrne, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, St. Petersburg, June, (1992).

24.       Magnetospheric influences on atmospheric electricity at South Pole Station, E.A. Bering, III, J R. Benbrook, R. Chadwick, G.J. Byrne, A.A. Few, and G.A. Morris, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, St. Petersburg, June, (1992).

25.       Feasibility of long term vertical electric current measurements in the antarctic, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, R. Chadwick, G.J. Byrne, A.A. Few and G.A. Morris, Antarct. J. U. S., 28(5), 314-316, (1993).

26.       Studies of ionospheric convection in the southern hemisphere using long duration balloons, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, C. Clarady, R. Fujii, and A. Kadokura, Antarct. J. U. S., 28(5), 329-332, (1993).

27.       Geoelectric and geomagnetic Pc 3 pulsations during travelling convection vortices, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, K. Lee, M.J. Engebretson, and J. R. Beck, Antarct. J. U. S., 30(5), 349-351, (1995).

28.       Diurnal and seasonal observations of the global electric circuit from South Pole Station, E.N. Cleary, A.A. Few, E.A. Bering, III, J.R. Benbrook, and G.J. Byrne, Antarct. J. U. S., 30(5), 346-347 (1995).

29.       High voltage spacecraft charging: Theory and measurement, E. A. Bering, III, R. Kabadi and B. J. McIntyre, Proceedings of AIAA Space 2000, AIAA, (2000).

30.       The VASIMR engine approach to solar system exploration, F. R. Chang Díaz, J. P. Squire, E. A. Bering, III, J. A. George, A.Ilin, A. J. Petro, Proceedings of the 39th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit , AIAA, (2001).

31.       Experimental studies of the exhaust plasma of the VASIMR engine, E. A. Bering, III, M. Brukardt, F. R. Chang Díaz, J. P. Squire, V. Jacobson, R. D. Bengtson, J. N. Gibson, T. W. Glover, Proceedings of the 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit , AIAA, (2002).

32.       The plasma environment of the International Space Station in the austral summer auroral zone inferred from plasma contactor data, E. A. Bering, III, S. Koontz, I. Katz, B. Gardner, D. Evans, D. Ferguson, Proceedings of the 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit , AIAA, (2002).

33.       Ion Dynamics and ICRH Heating in the Exhaust Plasma of The VASIMR Engine, E. A. Bering, M. S. Brukardt, W. A. Rodriguez, F. R. Chang Díaz, J. P. Squire, V. T. Jacobson, A. V. Ilin, D. S. Winter, R. D. Bengtson, J. N. Gibson, T. W. Glover, D. G. Chavers, Proceedings of the 53rd International Astronautical Congress / The World Space Congress, AIAA, (2002).

34.       Experimental research progress toward the VASIMR engine, J.P. Squire, F. R. Chang-Díaz, V. T. Jacobson, T. W. Glover, F. W. Baity, R. H. Goulding, R. D. Bengtson, E. A. Bering III, and K. A. Stokke, Proceedings of the 28th International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC 2003, IEPC 03-286, Toulouse, France, 17-21 March 2003.

35.       The VASIMR engine: Project status and recent accomplishments, F. R. Chang-Díaz, F. R., J. P. Squire, T. Glover, A. J. Petro, E. A. Bering III, F. W. Baity Jr., R. H. Goulding, M. D. Carter, R. D. Bengtson, and B. N. Breizman, Proceedings of the 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 5-8, 2004.

36.       Velocity phase space studies of ion dynamics in the VASIMR engine, E. A. Bering, III, F. R. Chang-Díaz, J. P. Squire, T. W. Glover, R. D. Bengtson, and M. Brukardt, Proceedings of the 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 5-8, 2004.

37.       Progress toward the development of a 50 kW VASIMR engine, E. Bering, J. Squire, G. McCaskill, V. Jacobson, T. Glover, and M. Brukardt, Proceedings of the AIAA 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Paper AIAA-2005-0369 ,Reno, NV, January 10-13, 2005.

38.       Mars Rover Models - A program to enrich teaching space science, planetary exploration and robotics in elementary and middle school, E. A. Bering, J. Ramsey, B. Boyko, H. Smith, S. Peck, and W. Arceneaux, Proceedings of the AIAA 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Paper AIAA-2005-0285, Reno, NV, January 10-13, 2005.

39.       Ion acceleration by single pass ion cyclotron heating in the VASIMR engine, E. Bering, E., M. Brukardt, F. Chang-Díaz, J. Squire, T. Glover, V. Jacobson, A. Tarditi, G. McCaskill, and R. D. Bengtson, Proceedings of the 29th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Paper IEPC-2005-093, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 31 October - 4 November, 2005.

40.       Diagnostics for in-space testing of high power electric thrusters on the International Space Station, G. Chavers, J. Jones, C. Dobson, J. Vaughn, F. Chang-Díaz, E. Bering, and A. Petro, Proceedings of the 29th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Paper IEPC-2005-168, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 31 October - 4 November, 2005.

41.       Recent improvements in ion cyclotron heating efficiency in the VASIMR engine, E. Bering, III, M. Brukardt, J. P. Squire, V. T. Jacobson, T. W. Glover, and G. E. McCaskill. Paper AIAA-2006-0766 presented at the 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 9-12 January 2006, Reno, Nevada.

42.        Promoting student interest in science and engineering: Mars Rover Competition Grades 3-8, J. Ramsey and E. Bering. Paper AIAA-2006-5146 presented at the 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, 9-12 July 2006, Sacramento, California.

43.        High power ion cyclotron heating in the VASIMR engine, E. Bering, F. Chang-Díaz, J. Squire, V. Jacobson, L. Cassady, and M. Brukadt. Paper AIAA-2007-0586 presented at the 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 8-11 January 2007, Reno, Nevada.

44.        VASIMR: A private enterprise solution to space transportation beyond LEO, E. A. Bering, III, T. W. Glover, F. R. Chang Díaz, J. P. Squire, L. D. Cassady, M. S. Brukardt, and B. Longmier. Paper AIAA-2007-6134 in Proceedings of Space 2007, 18-20 September, Long Beach, CA, AIAA, Long Beach, CA, 2007.

45.        High power VASIMR experiments using deuterium, neon, and argon, J. P. Squire, F. Chang Díaz, M. D. Carter, L. D. Cassady, W. J. Chancery, T. W. Glover, V. T. Jacobson, G. E. McCaskill, R. D. Bengtson, and E. A. Bering. Paper IEPC-2007-181 presented to the 30th International Electric Propulsion Conference, 17-20 September, Florence, Italy, 2007.

46.        VASIMR VX-100 Engine: Next step to high power electric propulsion, E. Bering, B. Longmier, F. Chang Díaz, J. Squire, V. Jacobson, and M. Brukardt. Paper AIAA-2008-1087 in Proceedings of the 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 7-10 January, 2008, AIAA, Reno, NV, 2008.

 


 

 

INVITED TALKS

1.          ``AC and DC Techniques of Electric Field Measurement," presented to the Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, California, July, 1973.

2.          ``Split Langmuir Probe Measurements of Current Density in Aurora," presented to the Physics Dept., Univ. of Houston, Houston, Texas, December, 1974.

3.         ``Split Langmuir Probe Measurements of Current Density in Aurora," presented to the Dept. of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice Univ., Houston, Texas, March, 1975.

4.         ``Split Langmuir Probe Measurements of Current Density in Aurora," presented to the Plasma Physics Dept., Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, February, 1977.

5.         ``Split Langmuir Probe Measurements of Current Density in Aurora," presented to the Danish Space Research Institute, Lyngby, Denmark, February, 1977.

6.         ``Thunderstorm Electric Fields and Magnetospheric Particle Precipitation," presented to the Institute of Physical Science and Technology, and the Meteorology Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, May, 1978.

7.         ``Thunderstorm Electric Fields and Magnetospheric Particle Precipitation," presented to the Dept. of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice Univ., Houston, Texas, October, 1978.

8.         ``Spirits of the Polar Night," presented to the Houston Astronomical Society, Houston, Texas, June, 1978.

9.         ``Sun, Earth, Climate, and Weather," presented to the Physics Dept., Univ. of Houston, Houston, Texas, September, 1979.

10.       ``Electric Fields, Electron Precipitation, and VLF Radiation during a Simultaneous Magnetospheric Substorm and Atmospheric Thunderstorm," presented to the XVII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Canberra, Australia, December, 1979.

11.       ``X Rays in the Middle Atmosphere," presented to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, April, 1980.

12.       ``Spirits of the Polar Night," presented to the Exchange Club of West Houston, Houston, Texas, November, 1980.

13.       ``ULF Waves on Auroral Arc Boundaries," with C. Gelpi, presented at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, November, 1982.

14.       ``ULF Waves on Auroral Arc Boundaries," with C. Gelpi, presented to the Chapman Conference on Waves in Magnetospheric Plasma, Kona, Hawaii, February, 1983.

15.       ``The Plasma Wave Environment of an Auroral Arc," presented to the Department of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston,, Texas, March, 1986.

16.       ``The Plasma Wave Environment of an Auroral Arc," presented to the astronomy colloquium, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston,, Texas, May, 1986.

17.       ``Observations of High-latitude Conjugate Ionospheric Electric Fields," presented at the International Symposium on Large-Scale Processes in the Ionospheric-Thermospheric System, Boulder, Colorado, December, 1986.

18.       ``The 1985-86 South Pole Balloon Campaign," with J. R. Benbrook, J. M. Howard, D. M. Oró, E. G. Stansbery, J. R. Theall, D. L. Matthews and T. J. Rosenberg, presented at the 1986 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December, 1986.

19.       ``An Introduction to Current Problems in Auroral Physics," presented to the Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, February, 1987.

20.       ``The 1985-86 South Pole Balloon Campaign," presented to the Wellesley Club of Houston, Houston, Texas, February, 1987.

21.       ``The 1985-86 South Pole Balloon Campaign," presented to the Institute of Physical Science and Technology and the Meteorology Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, February, 1988.

22.       ``Conjugate Ionospheric Electric Field Measurements near the Polar Cusp,"with J. R. Benbrook, V. Wickwar, K. Baker, R. A. Greenwald, and J. M. Ruohoniemi, presented to XX Meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Upper Atmospheric Physics Working Group, Hobart, Tasmania, September, 1988.

23.       ``Balloon Observations of the Electric Field over South Pole: Convection Patterns and Flux Transfer Events," with J. R. Benbrook, G.J. Byrne, Z.-M. Lin, and D. Liang, presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on `` Electromagnetic Coupling in the Polar Clefts and Caps", Lillehammer, Norway, 20-24 September, 1988.

24.       ``ELF and VLF Waves in the Polar Caps and Cusps," presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on `` Electromagnetic Coupling in the Polar Clefts and Caps", Lillehammer, Norway, 20-24 September, 1988.

25.       ``Conjugate Ionospheric Electric Field Measurements near the Polar Cusp," with J. R. Benbrook, V. Wickwar, K. Baker, R. A. Greenwald, and J. M. Ruohoniemi, presented to the 1988 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, 5-9 December, 1988.

26.       ``Review of UH Results from Siple/Roberval Campaigns," with J. R. Benbrook and W.R. Sheldon, presented at the International Workshop on A New Antarctic ELF/VLF Wave Injection Facility, Stanford, California, 24-28 April 1989.

27.       ``What We Don't Know (Well) About Outer Belt Precipitation," with J. R. Benbrook and W.R. Sheldon, presented at the International Workshop on A New Antarctic ELF/VLF Wave Injection Facility, Stanford, California, 24-28 April 1989.

28.       ``Out to Launch: Suggestions for Rocket & Balloon Support," with J. R. Benbrook and W.R. Sheldon, presented at the International Workshop on A New Antarctic ELF/VLF Wave Injection Facility, Stanford, California, 24-28 April 1989.

29.       ``Balloon observations of auroral precipitation and substorms near the dayside cusp," with J. R. Theall, J. R. Benbrook, D. L. Matthews, and T. J. Rosenberg, paper presented at the 1990 AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, August, 1990.

30.       ``Short term global correlations in vertical electric field measurements,'' with J. R. Benbrook, R. Chadwick, K. Lee, A. A. Few, E. N. Cleary, G. A. Morris, G.J. Byrne, R. Fujii, A. Kadokura, R. H. Holzworth, H. Hu, and K. Norville, EOS, Trans. AGU, 74, 155, 1993. (Fall Meeting Supplement)

31.       ``Balloon-borne Measurments of Ionospheric Convection above Antarctica,'' invited paper presented to the Physics Department, Prairie View A\&M University, April, 1994.

32.       ``Global coherence and cross-scale coupling of the ionospheric and atmospheric electric field,'' with J. R. Benbrook, R. Chadwick, K. Lee, A. A. Few, E. N. Cleary, G. A. Morris, G.J. Byrne, R. Fujii, A. Kadokura, R. H. Holzworth, H. Hu, K. Norville, S. J. Malachowski, K. D. Cole, G. B. Burns, M. H. Hesse, S. K. Parcell, and L. Symmons, presented to XXIII Meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Working Group on Solar Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research, Rome, Italy, August, 1994.

33.       ``Polar patrol balloons (PPB) launched from Syowa during austral summer in 1992-93,'' N. Sato, M. Ejiri, Y. Tonegawa, A. Kadokura, Y. Hirasima, N. Yajima, T. Yamagami, T. Hirasawa, and E.A. Bering, presented to XXIII Meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Working Group on Solar Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research, Rome, Italy, August, 1994.

34.       Antarctic studies of space and atmospheric electrodynamics. invited talk given to the Rice-Medical Center Chapter of Sigma Xi, Rice University, Houston, TX, Nov. 12 (1997).

35.       Antarctic studies of space and atmospheric electrodynamics," invited class given to the Space Politics Seminar, Department of Physics, Dartmouth College, March 10, 1998.