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Edgar Andrew Bering, III
Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Physics Dept. University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5005
e-mail: eabering@uh.edu
Phone:713/743-3543
Cellular: 281/216-0442
FAX: 713/743-3589
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

[Aurora]Member of Space Physics Group.

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 sprites, and the electromagnetic radiation spectrum of lightning and sprites at high altitude, VLF magnetic fields accompanying active experiments in the ionosphere, dc plasma properties in the ionosphere near pulsating aurora, and electric fields near the magnetospheric cusp. Presently involved in the development of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) at the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Johnson Space Center.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

78 Refereed Publications, including:

  1. ``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)
  2. ``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).
  3. ``Intense 2.3 Hz electric field pulsations in the stratosphere at high auroral latitude,'' E. A. Bering, and J. R. Benbrook, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 7791-7806, (1995).
  4. ``The global circuit: Passive load, proxy variable or active element,'' E. A. Bering, Rev. Geophys., 33, (Supplement), 845-862 (1995) (U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994).
  5. ``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, J. R. Benbrook, and M. Ejiri Proc. NIPR Symp. Upper Atmos Phys., 9, 12-24, (1996).
  6. ``Ionospheric electric fields from stratospheric balloon borne probes,'' R. H. Holzworth and E. A. Bering, in Geophysical MonographSeries: Measurement Techniques for Space Plasmas, Fields, edited by R. Pfaff, J. Borovsky, and D. Young, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, (1998), pp 79-84.
  7. ``Simultaneous electric and magnetic field observations of Pc 1-2, and Pc 3 pulsations,'' E. A. Bering, J. R. Benbrook, M. J. Engebretson, and R. L. Arnoldy Jr., J. Geophys. Res., 103, 6741-6761, 1998.
  8. ``The global circuit,'' E. A. Bering, A. A. Few, and J. R. Benbrook, Physics Today, 51(10), 24-30, 1998.
  9. ``On the hourly contribution of global cloud-to-ground lightning activity to the atmospheric electric field,'' M. Fuellekrug, A. C. Fraser-Smith, E. A. Bering and A. A. Few, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys, 61, 745-750, 1999.
  10. ``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, and W. J. R. French, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 61, 1347-1356, 1999.
  11. ``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.
  12. ``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, doi10.1029/2001GL013267, 2002.
  13. ``Multi-station studies of the simultaneous occurance rate of Pc3 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, doi10.1029/2002JA009397, 2003,
  14. ``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.

TECHNICAL REPORTS, INVITED TALKS, ABSTRACTS

36 Technical Reports

54 Invited Talks

217 Abstracts

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