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William Peterson

Phone: 303-492-0686
Email: William.Peterson at lasp.colorado.edu
WWW: http://lasp.colorado.edu/timas/peterson/Peterson.html


Personal Info

Education: BS, with honors, 1964 Engineering Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
PhD Physics, 1971, University of Colorado, Boulder
Post doctoral studies at the Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) 1971-1973, and at The Johns Hopkins University, 1973-1977

From 1977 to 2001 I was associated with the Lockheed Martin Space Physics Laboratory, Palo Alto, California.I am currently serving (3/4 time) as Discipline Scientist for Magnetospheric Physics at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC.

Professional Recognition: Co-chair of the GEM working group on mass exchange, 2000-.
Member Science and Technology Definition Team for the Global ElectroDynamics (GED) program, 1998-9.
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Ottawa, Canada, 1993.
Space Physics Data System, Magnetospheric Steering Committee, 1993-1997.
Principal Investigator on several mass spectrometer investigations on the NASA Dynamics Explorer, AMPTE, FAST and ISTP/Polar satellite programs.

Interests

Obtaining and using observations from ground and space based instruments to characterize the Earth's plasma environment to test models and theories attempting to describe it.

Projects

Polar
FAST
CRRES: Combined Chemical Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
AMPTE
Dynamics Explorer
International Sun Earth Explorer (ISEE)
Atmospheric Explorer's C, D, and E

Publications

  • Publications by William Peterson in the LASP Database
  • Select publications
  • Favorite Links

    ftp://sierra.spasci.com/DATA/timas/TIMAS_description.html
    ftp://willow.colorado.edu/pub/exchange/speo_test/serieshome.html
    ftp://sierra.spasci.com/DATA/de/DE_eics_home.html
    ftp://sierra.spasci.com/DATA/test/de/DE_home.html
    ftp://sierra.spasci.com/DATA/test/isee/Welcome.html