Dr. Robert J. MacDowall
E-mail: robert.macdowall@gsfc.nasa.gov
Business phone: +1 301 286-2608
Fax number: +1 301 286-1683
Location: Building 2 Room 116
Business address: NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mailstop 695.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Dr. MacDowall is an Astrophysicist in the Planetary Magnetospheres Branch, Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. His primary research experience is in solar and planetary radio astronomy, solar wind observations, and plasma waves observations and interpretation. He is the Principal Investigator of the Ulysses Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation (URAP), a Co-Investigator on the WIND/WAVES (radio and plasma wave) investigation, and GSFC data manager for the Geotail magnetic field investigation. He has degrees from Swarthmore College (B.A., Physics, 1978; M.A., Astronomy, 1979) and the University of Maryland (M.S. Physics, 1984; Ph.D. ,Astronomy, 1989). He spent two years (1984-1986) at the Paris Observatory, Meudon, France, as the recipient of a Chateaubriand Fellowship, from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is an author of more than 40 refereed publications and is a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, and Sigma Xi.
Selected Scientific Publications:
On the Visibility of Type III Radio Bursts Originating Behind the Sun, G.A. Dulk, J.L. Steinberg, S. Hoang, A. Lecacheux, and R.J.MacDowall, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 150, pp. l28-l30, 1985.
Characteristics of Shock Associated Fast Drift Kilometric Radio Bursts, R.J. MacDowall, M.R. Kundu, and R.G. Stone, Solar Physics, 111, pp. 397-418, 1987.
Effects of Interplanetary Shocks on Kilometric Type III Radio Bursts, R.J. MacDowall, Geophys. Research Let., 16, pp. 923-926, 1989. Kilometric Shock Associated Events and Microwave Bursts, M.R. Kundu, R.J. MacDowall, and R.G. Stone, Astrophys. and Space Science, 165, pp. 101-110, 1990.
Remote Radio Observations of Solar Wind Parameters Upstream of Planetary Bowshocks, R.J. MacDowall, R.G. Stone, and J.D. Gaffey, Jr., Solar Wind 7, Proceedings, (eds.) E. Marsch and R. Schwenn, Pergamon Press, Oxford, pp. 647-650, 1992.
Observations of Electron Plasma Waves Upstream of the Jovian Bow Shock, P. Canu, N. Cornilleau, C. de Villedary, P. J. Kellogg, C. C. Harvey, and R.J. MacDowall, Plan. Space Sci., 41, 811-822, 1993.
Observations and Interpretations of Interplanetary and Magnetospheric Radio Emissions, R.J. MacDowall and R.G. Stone, in Review of Radio Science: 1990-1992, W. Ross Stone (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Three-Dimensional Extent of a High Speed Solar Wind Stream, R.J. MacDowall, M.D. Desch, M.L. Kaiser, R.G. Stone, R.A. Hess, A. Balogh, S.J. Bame, and B.E. Goldstein, Space Science Reviews, 72, 125-128, 1995.
Ulysses Observations of Wave Activity at Interplanetary Shocks and Implications for Type II Radio Bursts, D. Lengyel-Frey, G. Thejappa, R.J. MacDowall, R.G. Stone, J. L. Phillips, J. Geophys. Res., submitted, 1996.
Ulysses Spacecraft Observations of Radio and Plasma Waves: 1991- 1995, R.J. MacDowall, R.A. Hess, N. Lin, G. Thejappa, A. Balogh, and J.L. Phillips, Astron. Astrophys., submitted, 1996.