Presenters/Facilitators for the SECTRA Workshop

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**Michael J. Carlowicz** is a science writer who directs education and
outreach programs for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics
program. He creates posters, public information materials, web sites,
press releases, and educational products. He also oversees development
of videos and animations of Sun-Earth science, and organizes teacher
education programs.

Mike has been writing about space physics since 1995, and he is
currently writing a book about space weather with Dr. Ramon Lopez. That
book, *Storms from the Sun*, will be published next spring by
McGraw-Hill Books. Prior to joining ISTP, Mike was the science news
reporter for *Eos* and *Earth in Space*, weekly and monthly publications
on geophysics. He also has written and edited more than 250 nonfiction
magazine articles, documentary scripts, and newspaper articles.

Mike received his B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University
in 1990 and an M.A. in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University in
1994. He teaches nonfiction and science writing courses in the College
of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the
National Association of Science Writers, the DC Science Writers
Association, and the American Geophysical Union. Raised in New Jersey,
he now lives in Herndon, Virginia, with his wife and two daughters.

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**Dr. Nicola Fox** is a scientist in the Space Department of the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She also has an
interagency appointment at NASA/GSFC, where she is the Science and
Operations Coordinator for ISTP. Her responsibilities include planning
the science operations for the Polar spacecraft and coordinating those
operations with other Sun-Earth Connections spacecraft and ground-based
facilities.

Nicky's research interest centers on solar system plasma physics, with a
particular emphasis on data analysis. She has studied aspects of the
Earth's geomagnetic cusp region using data from the Dynamics Explorer-2,
Polar, and DMSP spacecraft, as well as the SuperDARN ground-based radar
array. Her first love, however, is magnetospheric substorms, the subject
of her doctoral thesis. Currently, she is studying the impact of coronal
mass ejection events on geospace.

She has given numerous media interviews on the subject, including live
interviews on CBS and NPR and appearances in the documentaries
"SunStorms" and "Cosmic Storms." She takes an active role in the
education and outreach efforts of ISTP and has given many talks to high
school students and student/teacher workshops.

Nicky graduated with a Ph.D. in space plasma physics from Imperial
College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1995, where she also
received her B.Sc. in Physics in 1990. She also earned an M.Sc. in
Telecommunications and Satellite Engineering from the University of
Surrey (1991). She is a member of the American Geophysical Society,
European Geophysical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Institute of
Physics, and the Planetary Society. She is an associate editor of
Geophysical Research Letters. Born in England, Nicky now lives in
Laurel, Maryland, with her husband, a computer systems engineer at
JHU/APL.

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**Dr. Robert A. Hoffman**, from Winona, Minnesota, received his B.S.
degree in physics from St. Mary\'s College, and a Ph.D. in physics from
the University of Minnesota in 1962. His thesis under Prof. John
Winckler involved development of instrumentation for the Explorer 6
satellite and the subsequent data analysis. He joined Goddard Space
Flight Center in 1961 as a National Academy of Sciences Associate before
becoming a civil servant. His primary research interests have been the
experimental investigations of the Earth\'s ring current, auroral
particle acceleration and precipitation, and auroral electrodynamics.

Bob has been a principal investigator for instrumentation on a number of
flight projects, beginning with OGO-2. He has served as project
scientist for Explorer 45, Dynamics Explorer, and Pegsat. He assumed
direction of the Goddard chemical release program from James Heppner in
1989. Today, he is the project scientist for the Polar satellite of the
International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. He is author or
co-author of more than 100 scientific papers. He has served on advisory
committees to NASA Headquarters and on numerous review committees for
U.S. and European spaceflight projects. NASA has recognized his work
with awards for the Medal of Exceptional Scientific Achievement and the
Exceptional Service Medal, and by Goddard with its Exceptional
Performance Award.

Bob lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife of 40 years, and he
has two grown children and two grandchildren. You can read more about
him at http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/hoffman.html.

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**Dr. Therese Kucera** is a solar physicist for the Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) team at Goddard Space Flight Center (she
is an employee of the SM&A Corporation). For the past three years, she
has been working with the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) and the
Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (SUMER) instruments
on SOHO. She helps operate them, deciding when and what those
instruments should observe what and coordinating those observations with
the work of other instruments, spacecraft, and observatories. Terry uses
that data to study different features of the Sun\'s atmosphere (such as
prominences and active regions) and to compare real observations with
models and theories of how the Sun works. I also work with teachers who
are figuring out how to use our data and information in their
classrooms.

Terry earned her bachelor's degree in physics from Carleton College in
1987, and a master's (1991) and doctorate (1993) in Astrophysical,
Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Colorado at
Boulder. She began college taking atmospheric science classes, but then
heard about an opportunity to work with radio data from the Sun. That
sounded interesting, as it combined her interests in astronomy and Earth
science. Her doctoral thesis work eventually involved solar flares.

Raised in Evanston, Illinois, Terry is the oldest of three daughters.
She first became interested in astronomy during elementary school, but
didn\'t really think of it seriously because "I was told you had to be
good at math - which I thought meant -- yawn -- arithmetic; and I heard
it was hard to get a job as an astronomer." When she is not studying the
Sun today, she enjoys bicycling, dancing, reading, and practicing the
mandolin.

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**Dr. Ramon E. Lopez** was recently named the Cook Professor and chair
of the Physics Department of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP),
a position he will assume at the end of August 1999. From 1992 until
now, Ray was an associate research scientist in the Department of
Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research
focuses on magnetospheric substorms and on making detailed comparisons
between the results of supercomputer simulations and real-life
observations of events. His research has included analysis of data from
the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission, the Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program, and the ISTP program. Prior to his
work at Maryland, he was a scientist The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory.

Until June 1999, Ray also held the position of Director of Education and
Outreach for the American Physical Society, where he lead education
programs such as the Teacher-Scientist Alliance Institute. He has served
as a consultant to a number of school districts around the country, and
he worked closely with Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools to
implement a hands-on science program in elementary grades. He is
currently a principal investigator on a Local Systemic Change grant from
the National Science Foundation to revise middle school science
programs. He has acted as a consultant and co-developer of "Electric
Space: Bolts, Volts, and Jolts from the Sun," a traveling museum exhibit
about the space environment.

Ray received his B.S. degree in physics in 1980 from the University of
Illinois and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in space physics in 1984 and
1986 from Rice University. He is a member of the American Geophysical
Union, the American Physical Society, the American Association of
Physics Teachers, the National Science Teachers Association, the Society
of College Science Teachers, the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development, and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.

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**Dr. Donald J. Michels** has been a physicist for 41 years with the
Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory. His expertise
lies in studies of the sun\'s active atmosphere and its effects on
Earth. He also plays an active role in the invention, design, and
development of space-borne instrumentation necessary to observe such
phenomena.

He has led a small research group as the organizer and chief scientist
for a number of space and laboratory research programs and international
scientific collaborations. Most recently, Don was the Principal
Investigator (and later, Program Scientist) for the Large-Angle
Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on SOHO. He also is the chief American
co-investigator for the SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
(EIT). For many years, Don was the head of the Coronal Physics Section
at NRL. He "officially" retired from federal service in 1998, and is now
employed as an independent consultant to the NRL Solar Physics Branch,
through the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

Don is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American
Astronomical Society, and the Optical Society of America. He is a member
of the scientific steering committee of the International Solar Cycle
Study. With his wife Jackie, he lives Cheverly, Maryland. They have
raised six children, now all adults and all, like their father, globe
trotters.

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**Dr. Mauricio Peredo** is a space physicist working for Raytheon
Systems Company, where he is the deputy program manager for space
science, leading a group of 120 scientists, programmers, and engineers
that support NASA\'s Goddard Space Flight Center. Since 1992, Mauricio
has led the Science Planning and Operations Facility for the
International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program. He has
contributed to the development of tools for planning and analysis of
ISTP observations, while helping to coordinate ISTP's work with other
missions and to publish its scientific research in the science press. He
also oversees the mission's education and public outreach efforts.

Mauricio came to Goddard in 1990 following completion of his Ph.D. in
plasma physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he had also
earned an MS degree in 1987. Prior to that, he earned BS degrees in
Mathematics (1984) and in Physics (1985) from the University of Texas at
Austin. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union. Born and
raised in Mexico, Mauricio now lives in Laurel, Maryland, with his wife
and three sons.

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# Dr. Barbara Thompson earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Pennsylvania. She received her doctorate in physics in 1996 from the University of Minnesota, where studied with Dr. Robert Lysak and wrote a thesis on auroral particle acceleration.

# Barbara arrived at Goddard in 1996 to work with Dr. Joseph Gurman on SOHO. She then got involved in many research projects: ISTP, Whole Sun Month, SOHO/Yohkoh coordinated data analysis workshops. She became a civil servant in 1998, splitting her time between SOHO, the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), and the Solar EUV Rocket Telescope and Spectrometer (SERTS). She spent most of June 1999 in White Sands, New Mexico, assisting in the launch of SERTS.

Barbara hopes to play a large role in the development of the upcoming
solar STEREO mission, and she hopes to build a \"next generation solar
spectrometer\" to fly on SERTS.

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**Dr. Tycho von Rosenvinge** grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, the son
of a lawyer and an architect, and the eldest of six children by a scant
20 minutes. Sputnik I was launched in his junior year in high school.
This led to a nation-wide call for better science education and
research. In his senior year, Tycho took the Physical Sciences Study
Committee physics class at a time when their new textbook was being
distributed chapter by chapter. The space program was just taking off
when he started college. Following four years at Amherst College, he
attended the University of Minnesota, where high altitude balloons and
the earliest satellites were being used to study space phenomena. The
first men landed on the Moon just as he was receiving a Ph.D. in
physics.

Tycho came to Goddard in the fall of 1969 and began work on instruments
for the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform VI. IMP-6 was launched in
1971 and IMPs 7 and 8 followed in 1972 and 1973 (in fact, IMP-8 is still
working and being tracked today). The IMP instruments led to major
improvements in the knowledge of solar abundances. This was the start of
a successful career studying energetic particles from the sun. Tycho has
subsequently been the project scientist for the International Sun-Earth
Explorer-3, the International Cometary Explorer, the Solar, Anomalous,
and Magnetospheric Particle (SAMPEX), and the Advanced Composition
Explorer (ACE). Tycho is the head of the Low Energy Cosmic Ray Group in
Goddard's Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics.

Tycho is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American
Physical Society. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife,
Kristina, a clinical social worker. They have three children, Hille,
Tycho and Erik.