Dr. Mona Kessel NASA/GSFC, Code 632 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-6595 FAX: (301) 286-1771 E-mail: mona.kessel@gsfc.nasa.gov

EDUCATION:

B.S, Physics, 1978, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas
M.S., Physics, 1984, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Ph.D., Physics, 1986, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

PRESENT POSITION:

Astrophysicist, Space Physics Data Facility, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

EXPERIENCE:

Sep 1991-Jan 1993 Senior Data Acquistion Scientist, Hughes STX/NSSDC, NASA GSFC
Jan 1991-Jul 1991 Physics and Astronomy Instructor, DeKalb College, Atlanta, GA.
Nov 1986--Oct 1990 Research Scientist, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, England.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Kessel has extensive experience with shock analysis for interplanetary shocks, bow shocks and cometary shocks; and won a NASA ISTP Guest Investigator proposal as PI to work with ISTP data aimed at a global interpretation of the Earth's bow shock. She has also worked with data from the Hawkeye mission and has been involved in finding the first evidence of magnetopause reconnection at very high latitudes. She was PI on a sonification study to look for new interpretations of data by translating the digital data into sounds of varying frequency, pitch and volume. Dr. Kessel was CoI on a video project to show high school students and the general public how astronomers learned about the structure, composition, and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy through multi-wavelength observations, now available. These last two projects were funded using Directors Discretionary Funds at Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Kessel is one of the Women of NASA, participating in chat sessions with schools all over the U.S.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

1. A.J. Coates, A.D. Johnstone, R.L. Kessel, D.E. Huddleston, B. Wilken,K. Jockers, F.M. Neubauer, Plasma parameters near the comet Halley bow shock, J. Geophys. Res., 95 (12), 20701-20716, 1990.
2. R.L. Kessel, A.D. Johnstone, C.C. Brown and L.J.C. Woolliscroft, A Comparison of the ion density measured simultaneously by a wave and a particle instrument, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 1833-1841,1991.
3. 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, A4, 4209-4227, 1992.
4. R. L. Kessel, A. J. Coates, U. Motschmann, F. M. Neubauer, Shock Normal Determination for Multiple Ion Shocks, J. Geophys. Res, 99, A10, 19359-19374, 1994.
5. Kessel, R. L., S.-H. Chen, J. L. Green, S. F. Fung, S. Boardsen, L. Tan, T. Eastman, J. Craven, and L. A. Frank, Evidence of high-latitude reconnection during northward IMF: Hawkeye observations, Geophys. Res. Letts., 23, 5, 583-586, 1996.
6. Chen, S.-H., S. A. Boardsen, R. L. Kessel, J. L. Green, S. F. Fung, L. Tan, T. E. Eastman, and J. D. Craven, The exterior polar cusps: Observations from Hawkeye, J. Geophys. Res., 102, A6, 11,335-11,347, 1997.
7. Sibeck, D.G., N.L. Borodkova, S.J. Schwartz, C.J. Owen, R. Kessel, S. Kokubun, et al., Comprehensive study of the magnetospheric response to a hot flow anomaly, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 4577-4593, 1999.
8. Kessel, R.L., E. Quintana, M. Peredo, Local Variations of IMF at Earth's bow shock, J. Geophys. Res., 104, A11, 24869-24878, 1999.
9. Kessel, R.L. and S.-H. Chen, On the Earth's bow shock near solar minimum, Interball in the ISTP Program: Studies of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction, NATO Science Series, edited by D.G. Sibeck and K. Kudela, p. 87, 1999
10. Kessel, R.L., ISTP multi-point observations of Earth's bow shock, Proc. Cluster-II Workshop on Multiscale/Multipoint Plasma Measurements, ESA SP-449, 393-396, 2000.
11. Eastman, T.E., S.A. Boardsen, S-H Chen, S.F. Fung, R.L. Kessel, Configuration of High-Latitude and High-Altitude Boundary Layers, accepted J. Geophys. Res., 2000.