High School Assistant

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Robert B. Sheldon

National Space Science and Technology Ctr, VP62,

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Huntsville, AL 35805

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Huntsville, AL 35803

Home:256/650-0599 Cell:256/653-8592,

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Education

PhD University of Maryland, College Park 1990 Physics

MA Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia 1985 Religion

MS University of Maryland, College Park 1982 Physics

BS Wheaton College, Wheaton IL 1981 Physics

Experience in Private Sector

1981 (

summer) IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Research Assistant

1983--1984L.T.Klauder & Assoc. Engineering Consultants, Programmer

2005--2007USRA consultant on NASA preparations for exploration of lunar water

2011--2012Grassmere Dynamics LLC., consultant on Fission Fragment Rocket Engine

Experience in Satellite Hardware and Space Physics

NASA/WIND/MASS: Invention, Simulation, Design, Testing and Flight Calibration of High

Resolution Electrostatic Mass Spectrometer for Space Research UMD92.

NASA/WIND/SWICS & ESA/SOHO/MTOF: Characterization of Scattering, Energy Loss, and Final

Charge State of Ion Beams Penetrating Carbon Foil as a Function of Energy, Charge State

and Foil Thickness UMD87 & UBe95.

NASA/AMPTE/CHEM: Model Development and Data Analysis of the Quiet Terrestrial Ring

Current Ions; PhD Thesis, UMD90.

NASA: Development of Novel Algorithms for Magnetopheric Convection Modelling, and

Application to ISEE and AMPTE Data; UMD92.

NASA/WIND/SMS: Flight Calibration and Analysis, UBe94.

NASA/WIND/MTOF: First Analysis of Solar Wind Isotopes (other than noble gases), UBe95.

ESA/PHOENIX/RAPID: Calibration and Analysis of the IES Sensor @ GSFC facilities) BU96.

NASA/POLAR: Investigator on instrumentation, BU95-present.

NASA/POLAR/CEPPAD: Energetic Neutral Atom Discoveries including 1st global snapshot of a

substorm injection and 1st storm-time ring current injection. BU96.

NASA/POLAR/CAMMICE: Discovery/Theory of the Greater Cusp Accelerator, the source of MeV

"killer" electrons. BU96/UAH01.

NASA: Proposal and business plan for nanosat communication network using lasers UAH00.

NASA/SEDSAT 1: Faculty advisor and lead on the science recovery effort. UAH01.

NASA/BITSY: Faculty advisor and lead on the ground station development of microsatellite.

UAH02.

NASA/MagCon: Proposal and Whitepaper on the use of nanosatellite clusters for tail

research. BU00.

A Theory of Ring Current Convective + Diffusive Transport using a Hamiltonian formalism

with ionospheric fluctuation power input. BU96.

Theory/Experiment of Magnetic Storms and Ring Current Injections. BU96/UAH00.

Theory/Experiment of Young Stellar Object (YSO) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets.

BU97/UAH01.

Invention of the HELIX Ultra High Resolution Mass Spectrometer, UAH99.

Experiment on Dusty Plasma Solar Sails, UAH01

Co-Inventor of Dusty Plasma Nuclear Rocket, NSSTC05

NASA/RBSP: Proposal for low-cost monitoring of the radiation belt flux. NSSTC05.

Wet Comet Theory for structure and dynamics of short-period comets, NSSTC05

Theory of Polar Mesospheric Clouds as Dusty Plasmas, NSSTC06

Theory of the diffusion of life throughout the galaxy, NSSTC07

Theory of the origin of life as an addition of information, NSSTC10

Demonstration and theory of electrostatic dust confinement in quadrupole magnetic field,

NSSTC11

NASA/NIAC: Proposal and design of a fission fragment nuclear rocket, Grassmere 2012

Books & Patents

Laser Satellite Communication: the 3rd generation. Greenwood, 2000. This book records a

business plan that would make satellite telecommunications affordable by 3rd world

countries, who are straining to enter the information age. The concept inverts the

geosynchronous (or Iridium) satellite model and argues for a fleet of nanosats in low

earth orbit. The innovative design and communication needs of such nanosats form the basis

of the Patent #US5909299 "Microsatellite system for high-volume orbital telemetry",

granted in 6/1/1999.

HELIX patent applied for in 2003. This patent is for a very compact mass spectrometer

with applications for space exploration instrumentation, as well as mass market "digital

nose" technology.

Experience in Higher

Education

2004-2006 Taylor University Proposal Consultant to Engineering Physics Dept

2003 (summer) NASA/MSFC/NSSTC/SD50 Summer Faculty Fellow

2002-2003 Wheaton College Visiting Associate Professor

1998-2002 University of Alabama in Huntsville Associate Professor

1997-1998 Boston University Senior Research Associate

1995-1997 Boston University Research Associate

1993-1995 University of Bern Physics Laboratory Associate

1986-1990 University of Maryland Research Assistant

1988-1989 Silver Spring Christian Academy High School Physics Teacher

1985-1986University of Maryland Graduate Lab Teaching Assistant

1981-1982 University of Maryland Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Courses Taught

Secondary School:

1988 High School Physics. Four 10th grade girls. Conceptual Physics, Hewitt.

2008-2012 High School Academic Team Competition. NAQT, Campbell's book of lists.

Undergraduate:

1982 Introductory Physics Labs. 20 students x 3 sections x 3 semesters.

1998 1st semester Calculus based Physics. 72 students. Halliday & Resnick

1999 2nd semester calculus based physics. 60 students. Halliday & Resnick

1999 Electronics for Physics majors. 3 students. Fortney.

2000 3rd semester calculus based physics. 35 students. H & R

2000 3rd semester calculus based physics. 20 students. H & R

2000 Introduction to Astronomy. 65 students. Kauffman.

2001 Physics, Philosophy & Fundamentalism. 7 students.

2002 WC 1st semester calculus based physics. ~20 students. Giancoli

2002 WC 1st semester elementary physics lab. ~ 65 students

2002 WC Experimental Physics (design of a vacuum system). 2 students

2003 WC 2nd semester elementary physics lab. ~20 students

2003 WC Analytical Mechanics. 9 students. Marion & Thornton

2003 WC Senior Seminar. 7 students

Graduate:

1986 UMd Graduate Laboratory. About 15 students x 4 semesters

1995 UBerne Graduate Laboratory.

Professional and Honorary Associations

SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering

AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AGU: American Geophysical Union

Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society

National Merit Scholarship Finalist

Experience in Computation

Operating systems: DOS, DEC VAX; Windows 95,98,2k,XP; Linux SCO,RedHat,Mandrake,Ubuntu;

Mac OS X

Programming Languages: BASIC, FORTRAN, Cobol, Pascal, C, C++, VRML, Forth, LaTeX, BibTeX

Packages: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Corel, Wordperfect, IDL, Linux-lookalikes, Maple,

Maxima

Selected Publications

R. B. Sheldon and R. B. Hoover, "Implications of cometary water: Deep Impact, Stardust

and Hayabusa" in Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology IX, Hoover, Levin,

Rosanov eds. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6309 (Bellingham, WA) pp 6309-0L, 2006.

R. B. Sheldon and R. B. Hoover, "The Cometary Biosphere" in Instruments, Methods, and

Missions for Astrobiology X, Hoover, Levin, Rosanov eds. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6694

(Bellingham, WA) pp 6694-0H, 2007.

R. B. Sheldon and R. B. Hoover, "Cosmological Evolution: Spatial Relativity and the Speed

of Life" in Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XI, Hoover, Levin, Rosanov

eds. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7097 (Bellingham, WA) pp 7097-41, 2008.

R. B. Sheldon, "Space Sciences" in Mass Spectrometry: Instrumentation, Interpretation,

and Applications Ekman, Silberring, Brinkmalm, and Kraj eds., Wiley & Sons, pp. 253-266,

2009.

R. B. Sheldon, "Comets, Information, and the Origin of Life" in Genesis - In The

Beginning: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution, Vol 22 in

Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, DOI 10.1007/978-**-***-****-

4_21, 2012.

Special Awards and Honors

Organizer for the Huntsville 2000 Workshop (attendance 85).

NASA Group Achievement Award for AMPTE Mission Operations (1990)

UMd Ralph D. Myers Teaching Award for Graduate Laboratory Teaching Assistant (1986)

Significant Contracts and Grants

Global Electric Field Determination in the Earth's Outer Magnetosphere using Charged

Particles.

NASA grant for $123k from Jan 1991-1994

Real PI: R. Sheldon,

Co-I's: T. Eastman*, D. Hamilton, and C. McIlwain

The Magnetospheric Mapping Mission

NASA grant for $200k from Feb 1997--1999

Real PI: R. Sheldon,

Co-I's: H. Spence*, H. Petschek, G. Siscoe

Remote Sensing of Magnetospheric Structure Using (U,B,K) Analysis of GGS Particle and

Field Data

NASA grant for $170k from May 1997--1999

Real PI: R. Sheldon

Co-I's H. Spence*, E. Whipple, G. Parks

``A Survey of Ring Current Direct Injection Events''

NASA grant for $40k from

Jan 99-Jan 01

PI: R. Sheldon

``The Spinning Terrella Plasma Accelerator''

UAH grant for $8.8k from Apr 99 - Mar 00

PI: R. Sheldon

``The Properties of Cusp Diamagnetic Cavities''

NASA grant for $70k from

Jun 00 to May 01

PI: R. Sheldon

``Dynamic and Optical Characterization of Dusty Plasmas for Use as Solar Sails''

NASA grant for $150k from

Jun 01 - Dec 01.

PI: R.Sheldon,

Co-I: D.Gallagher, M.Adrian, M.Abbas, P.Craven, E.Thomas,Jr.

High Resolution Mass Spectrometer for Lunar Rover

NASA/MSFC internal grant in 2005

Radioactive Dust Levitation Experiment

NASA/MSFC internal grant in 2011-2012

Fission Fragment Dusty Plasma Rocket

NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts grant for $100k, from 2011-2012

PI: Bob Werka,

Co-I's: Rob Sheldon and Rod Clark

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