Space Physics Data Facility (Code 612.4)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
EDUCATION:
B.S., Physics, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, 1974--1978
M.S., Physics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1981--1984
Ph.D., Physics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, September, 1986
Thesis: Gone With the Solar Wind: A study of protons accelerated by interplanetary shocks
EXPERIENCE:
Dr. Kessel has developed a broad range of research interests that cross traditional discipline boundaries. Her work includes studies in many regions: interplanetary space, Earth's bow shock, magnetopause, and inner magnetosphere, and ground-based observations. She has analyzed ULF fluctuations in various regions and published several papers on the topic. She has extensive experience with shock analysis for interplanetary shocks, bow shocks and cometary shocks. She has worked with Geotail data to develop a global interpretation of the Earth's bow shock and has published significant papers on this topic. She has also worked extensively with data from the Hawkeye mission and published the first observations of high-latitude reconnection with northward IMF as the cover of GRL. She is a Co-Investigator for the CLUSTER PEACE electron experiment. Dr. Kessel has also been very active in educational work, with students every summer since 1994 and as an advisor to a graduate student working at the University of Kansas and Puerto Rico. She was a writer/producer on a 28 minute educational film entitled ``The Milky Way's Invisible Light" that shows how scientists determined the structure and makeup of the MW using light at wavelengths other than visible. She has also served as one of the "Women of NASA" participating in WWW chats with secondary and HS students (http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/), and served on the Women's advisory committee at Goddard Space Flight Center.
R.L. Kessel, A.J. Coates, R.A. Gowen and A.D. Johnstone, "Space Plasma Measurements with Ion Instruments'', Rev. Sci. Instrum., 60 (12), 3750--3761, 1989.
S.J. Schwartz, D. Burgess, W.P.Wilkinson, R.L. Kessel, M. Dunlop, H. Luhr, "Observations of short large-amplitude magnetic structures at a quasi-parallel shock", J. Geophys. Res., 97, 4209, 1992.
R.L. Kessel, S.-H. Chen, J.L. Green, S.F. Fung, S. Boardsen, L. Tan, T.E. Eastman,
J. Craven and L.A. Frank, "Evidence of High-Latitude Reconnection During Northward IMF: Hawkeye Observations.", Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 5, 583-586, 1996.
R.L. Kessel E. Quintana, M. Peredo, Local Variations of IMF at Earth's bow shock, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 24869, 1999.
R.L. Kessel, I.R. Mann, S.F. Fung, D. Milling, and N. Oconnell, Correlation of Pc5 wave power inside and outside the magnetosphere during high speed streams, Ann. Geophys., 21, 1-13, 2003.
R.L. Kessel, and X. Shao, How does the solar wind power the magnetosphere during geo-effective high speed streams?, in Multiscale Coupling of Sun-Earth Processes, ed. A.T.Y. Lui and G. Consolini, p. 39-53, Elsevier B.V., 2005.