Richard A. Goldberg

Geospace Physics Branch

Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics

EDUCATION: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, B.S. (Physics) 1957

        The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. Physics 1963,

EXPERIENCE:                                             

Dr. Goldberg has been actively engaged in problems dealing with Solar-Terrestrial Relationships and with the physics and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere for over 40 years. He has dealt with studies concerning the ionized and neutral regions of the atmosphere, including meteorology and climate, from both a theoretical and experimental approach.  He has been involved as a principal investigator in experimental and theoretical studies dealing with solar terrestrial relationships and coupling processes. He also served as a Program Director for Solar-Terrestrial Relations at the National Science Foundation (1989-1991). He is currently engaged in an ongoing sounding rocket program to study the polar summer mesosphere and its relationship to middle atmospheric electrodynamics, and to neutral dynamics and turbulence. He is also GSFC Project Scientist for the NASA TIMED Satellite. He has been Principal Investigator for more than 80 sounding rockets during the course of his studies.  He has also published over 125 papers, co-authored the book Sun, Weather, and Climate.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"Geomagnetic Control of the Electron Density in the F Region of the Ionosphere", R. A. Goldberg, et al., J. Geophys. Res., 69,  417, 1964.

"Studies of Positive Ion Composition in the Equatorial D Region Ionosphere", R. A. Goldberg and A. C. Aikin, J. Geophys. Res., 76,  8352, 1971

"Ion Composition in a Noctilucent Cloud Region", R. A. Goldberg and G. Witt, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 2619, 1977

"Mapping of Auroral X-Rays from Rocket Overflights", R. A. Goldberg et al., J. Geophys. Res., 87,  2509, 1982

"Detailed Spectral Structure of Magnetospheric Electron Bursts Precipitated by Lightning", R. A. Goldberg et al., J. Geophys. Res., 92,  2505, 1987

 “Energy Deposition and Middle Atmosphere Electrodynamic Response to a Highly Relativistic Electron Precipitation Event”, R. A. Goldberg et al., J. Geophys. Res., 99, 21071, 1994

"Equatorial Dynamics Observed by Rocket, Radar, and Satellite During the CADRE/MALTED Campaign: 1. Programmatics and Small Scale Fluctuations", R. A. Goldberg et al., J. Geophys. Res., 102,  26179-26190, 1997

“DROPPS: A Study of the Polar Summer Mesosphere with Rocket, Lidar, and Radar”, R. A Goldberg et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1407-1410, 2001

“The MaCWAVE/MIDAS Rocket and Ground-based Measurements of Polar Summer Dynamics”, R. A. Goldberg et al., Geophys. Res. Letts, 31, L24S02, doi:10.1029/2004GL019411, 2004