Research Professor
of
4400 University Drive, MS 3F3
GMU Phone: 703-993-1269
FAX: 703-993-1993
rmeier@gmu.edu
NRL: Ph. 202-767-2773
Fax 202-404-8090
robert.meier@nrl.navy.mil
EDUCATION
CAREER
1962-1968
Teaching/Research
Assistant,
1966-1968 E.O. Hulburt Research
Associate, NRL
1968-1975 Research
Physicist, NRL
1975-1983 Head,
Planetary Atmospheres Section, NRL
1983-2001 Head, Upper
Atmospheric Physics Branch, NRL
2002-2004, Senior
Scientist for Atmospheric Physics, NRL
2004-present, Research Professor for Space Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Geophysical
American Physical
Society (Fellow)
Sigma Xi
International
Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
International
Astronomical
AWARDS
E.O. Hulburt
Annual Science and Engineering Award for 1991
USAF Special
Recognition Award,
1983
Journal of Geophysical
Research
Editor's Citation for Excellence
in Refereeing, 1993
Fellow of the American
Physical
Society, 1997
NRL 75th Anniversary Innovation Award, 1998
Fellow of the American
Geophysical
Academician,
NRL Technology
Transfer Award, 2000
Aeronomy Secretary, American
Geophysical
NRL Distinguished
Contribution Award, 2000
NRL Alan Berman
Publication Award, seven times
SELECTED RESEARCH INTERESTS
Upper atmospheric and ionospheric physics, chemistry, and dynamics
with special
emphasis on development of techniques for remote sensing of composition
and
temperature.
Studies of auroras from ground and space to understand nature of precipitating particles and their relationship to geomagnetic storms.
Investigation of the
basic
properties of comets and their interaction with the solar wind and
radiation
fields.
The
interstellar
medium and its interaction with the solar system, with special focus on
the
flow of hydrogen and helium into the interplanetary regime.
Studies of the plasmasphere and its special relationship with
the
ionosphere and magnetosphere, especially from a global perspective
through
extreme ultraviolet imaging.
Radiative transport theory,
with emphasis
on development of numerical techniques for interpretation of spectra
and images
of very optically thick planetary atmospheres.
Solar
irradiance
variability and its effect on planetary atmospheres.
Photolysis of trace
constituents
in the middle atmosphere.
Planetary atmospheres,
with
special interest in Venus, Mars and the moons of the outer planets
Space-based
experimentation with
rocket and satellite payloads.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ganguli G., M. A. Reynolds, J. A. Fedder,
D. Melendez-Alvira, R. R. Meier, Kinetic
modeling of
the inner magnetosphere: Application to remote sensing, Phys. Space Plas., 15, 1998.
Hicks G.
T., T. A.
Chubb, and R. R. Meier, Observations of Hydrogen Lyman alpha emission
from
missile trails, J. Geophys. Res., 104,
10101, 1999.
Richter K.,
M. R. Combi, H. U. Keller, and R. R.
Meier, Multiple scattering
of Hydrogen Lyman alpha radiation in the coma of comet Hyakutake
(C/1996 B2), Astrophys. J., 531, 599, 2000.
Nicholas
AC, JM Picone, RR Meier, KF Dymond, DP Drob, A
methodology for using optimal MSIS parameters
retrieved from SSULI Data to compute satellite drag on LEO objects,
JASTP, 62,
1317, 2000.
Knowles S.,
R. R.
Meier, B. A. S. Gustafson, and F. J. Giovane,
Reply
to Frank and Sigwarth, J. Geophys.
Res., 104, 22609, 1999.
Picone J. M. and R. R. Meier, Similarity
Transformations for
fitting of geophysical properties: Application to altitude profiles of
upper
atmospheric species, J. Geophys. Res., 105
18599,
2000.
Mitchell
D., H. O. Funsten, M. Gruntman,
M. Hesse, B. H. Mauk,
R. R. Meier,
D. J. McComas, E. C. Roelof,
and E. E. Scime, Multi-Point Magnetospheric
Reconnaissance Imaging: Visualization of Ion Dynamics, Evolution,
Origins, and
Structure, in Science Closure and Enabling Technologies for
Constellation Class
Missions, ed. V. Angelopoulos and P. V. Panetta, pp 44-50, University
of
California Printing Services, December 1998.
Picone J. M., A. E. Hedin,
D. P. Drob, R. R. Meier, J. Lean, A. C.
Nicholas and S. E. Thonnard, Enhanced
empirical models of the thermosphere,
Phys. Chem. Earth, 25, 537, 2000.
Meier R.
R., Aeronomy and Space Weather, The CEDAR
Post, 40, 4, 2000.
Meier, R.
R., J. M. Picone, D. P. Drob, and R. G. Roble,
Similarity transformation-based analysis of
atmospheric models, data and inverse remote sensing algorithms, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 15519, 2001.
Lean, J.
L., J. M. Picone, J. T. Mariska, H. P.
Warren, S. Knowles, J. Bishop, and R. R. Meier, Parameterizations of
solar EUV
irradiance variations for use in Upper Atmosphere density models,
Proceedings
of AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists
Conference, Quebec
City, August, 2001.
Meier , R.
R. et al.,
Ionospheric and dayglow
responses to the radiative phase of the
Bastille Day
flare, Geophys. Res. Lett,
10.1029/2001GL013956, 2002.
Stephan, A.
W.;
Meier, R. R.; Dymond, K. F.; Budzien,
S. A.; McCoy, R. P., Quenching rate coefficients for O+(2P) derived
from middle
ultraviolet airglow, J. Geophys.
Res. Vol. 108
No. A1,10.1029/2002JA009540, 24 January 2003
Christensen
A.B., L.
J. Paxton, S. Avery, J. Craven, G. Crowley, D. C. Humm,
H. Kil, R. R. Meier, C.I-Meng,
D. Morrison, B. S. Ogorzalek, P. Straus,
D. J.
Strickland, R., M. Swenson, R. L. Walterscheid,
B. Wolven, and Y. Zhang, Initial
Observations with the
Global Ultraviolet Imager (GUVI) in the NASA TIMED Satellite Mission,
J. Geophys. Res., 108, A12, 1451,
doi:10.1029/2003JA009918,
2003.
Strickland
D. J., J.
L. Lean, R. R. Meier, A. B. Christensen, L. J. Paxton, D. Morrison,
S.
Avery, J. D. Craven, G. Crowley, C. I-Meng,
R. L. Walterscheid, D. L. Judge, and D. McMullin, Solar EUV Irradiance Variability
Derived from
Terrestrial Far Ultraviolet Dayglow
Observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L03801,
2004.
Strickland D. J., R. R. Meier, A.B. Christensen, D. Morrison, L. J. Paxton, S. Avery, J. Craven G. Crowley, C.I-Meng, and R. L. Walterscheid, Quiet-time seasonal behavior of the thermosphere seen in the far ultraviolet dayglow, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A01302, 2004.