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As a member of the Space Physics Research Group, Dr. Bester successfully designed and integrated both the Berkeley Ground Station and the Mission Operations Center for the RHESSI and FAST Small Explorer missions. He participated in the RHESSI mission integration and testing, and acted as test conductor for all telecommunications and end-to-end data flow tests. He developed the SatTrack Suite, a very comprehensive set of satellite orbit analysis and tracking tools that is widely used in government, academia and the aerospace industry. The SatTrack Suite forms the backbone of the Berkeley Flight Dynamics System and provides a fully autonomous mission operations environment. Dr. Bester will help the E/PO team share the physics of the THEMIS orbits and will provide tours of the Mission Operations Center during days of public outreach. Dr. John Bonnell | Assistant Research Physicist at UCB Dr. Bonnell will perform orbital studies supporting mission planning and engineering, as well as serve on the testing and integration teams for the electric field and ElectroStatic Analyzer (ESA) instruments. Dr. Bonnell will provide science input to our E/PO lessons and help us explain how the electric field instruments work. Dr. Greg Delory | Senior Fellow Research Physicist at UCB Dr. Delory's primary specialty is in the experimental measurements of fields and particles in space plasmas. He has been the overall experiment scientist for a multi-probe auroral rocket mission launched in February of 2000. Dr. Delory's scientific interests include the isolation of wave-particle interactions in the auroral ionosphere, as well as characterization of auroral kilometric radiation measured by the FAST satellite. Dr. Howard Singer | Chief of Research and Development Division at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Environment Center Environment Center Since 1993, Dr. Singer has been with the NOAA Space Environment Center, where he is now the Chief of the Research and Development Division. His research, mostly in the area of solar-terrestrial interactions, Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) waves, geomagnetic disturbances and substorms. Dr. Singer has presented public outreach lectures to the community during Space Weather Week at the Space Environment Center in Boulder. Prof. Robert Ergun | Professor at University of Colorado at Boulder Prof. Ergun has 14 years of experience in space physics research and has developed successful instruments for sounding rockets, the Wind satellite, and the Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) satellite electric and magnetic field experiment. Currently he is working on the STEREO waves (SWAVES) instrument and is directing the radio tomography imaging study, the scientific analysis of the FAST electric field experiment. Prof. Eric Donovan | Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary Prof. Donovan works with a team of experts in imaging of the aurora using both ground-based and satellite-borne digital cameras. Their scientific motivation in this work is to use these images of the aurora to study the electrodynamics of near-Earth space. As part of the upcoming NASA THEMIS program, Prof. Donovan and his group will deploy, operate, and retrieve the data from a network of "All-Sky Imagers" deployed from the East coast of Canada to the border between the Yukon and Alaska. Data from these 16 imagers, and four more in Alaska, will be merged together in mosaics and ultimately used to create movies of the aurora with temporal and spatial resolution and geographic coverage never before achieved. |
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