Dr. Richard J. Fitzenreiter

NASA/GSFC, Code 673
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Phone: (301) 286-6825
Fax: (301) 286-1648

PRESENT POSITION:

Physicist
Heliophysics Science Division
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

EDUCATION:

B.S., Physics, University of Toledo, 1960
M.S., Physics, Indiana University, 1962
Ph.D., Physics, Catholic University of America, 1972

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Fitzenreiter is primarily interested in space plasma research of the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. He is involved in the analysis of plasma electron measurements made in these regions. He has primary data processing responsibilities for the VEIS electron spectrometer and solar wind strahl sensor of the Solar Wind Experiment (SWE) on the WIND spacecraft. His WIND data analysis effort also includes development of specialized visualization software tools which are shared with the WIND/SWE science team.

EXPERIENCE:

1962 - present -- Physicist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. 1998 "Observations of electron velocity distributions in the solar wind by the WIND spacecraft: High angular resolution strahl measurements", R. J. Fitzenreiter, K. W. Ogilvie, D. J. Chornay, J. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25.
  2. 1996 "Upstream ULF waves and energetic electrons associated with the lunar wake: Detection of precursor activity", W. M. Farrell, R. J. Fitzenreiter, C. J. Owen, J. B. Byrnes, R. P. Lepping, K. W. Ogilvie, and F Neubauer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1271.
  3. 1996 "Observations of the lunar wake from the WIND spacecraft on December 27, 1994", K. W. Ogilvie, J. T. Steinberg, R. J. Fitzenreiter, C. J. Owen, A. J. Lazarus, W. M. Farrell, and R. B. Torbert, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1255.
  4. 1996 "WIND observations of the electron foreshock", R. J. Fitzenreiter, A. F. Vinas, A. J. Klimas, R. P. Lepping, M. L. Kaiser, and T. G. Onsager, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1235.
  5. 1995 "The electron foreshock", R. J. Fitzenreiter, Proceedings of Symposium "The Physics of Collissionless Shocks", 30th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Hamburg, Germany, Adv. Space Res.,15, (8/9)9.
  6. 1995 "The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the magnetopause and in the boundary layer: Observations", R. J. Fitzenreiter and K. W. Ogilvie, AGU Geophysical Monograph 90, "Physics of the Magnetopause".
  7. 1990 "A 3--D analytical model for the spatial variation of the foreshock electron distribution function: Systematics and comparisons with ISEE observations", R. J. Fitzenreiter, J. D. Scudder, and A. J. Klimas, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4155.
  8. 1989 "The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the magnetopause and inner boundary layer surface", K. W. Ogilvie and R. J. Fitzenreiter, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 113.

Last modified: 13 Oct 2006