Richard A. Goldberg

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,
Code 612.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Tel: 301-286-8603     FAX: 301-286-1648
E-mail: richard.a.goldberg@nasa.gov

Dr. Goldberg arrived at GSFC in 1963, on a NAS/NRC Resident Research 
Associateship. He had received his BS from Rensselaer (1957) and his 
PhD from Penn State (1963), both in Physics. Except for a two-year 
position as Director of the Solar-Terrestrial Research Program at the 
National Science Foundation (1989-1991), he has spent his entire 
career within various organizations at Goddard.  During this period, 
he has been actively engaged in problems dealing with 
Solar-Terrestrial Relationships and with the physics and chemistry of 
the Earth's atmosphere. He has dealt with studies concerning the 
ionized and neutral regions of the atmosphere, including meteorology 
and climate, from both a theoretical and experimental approach.  He 
has been involved as a principal investigator in experimental and 
theoretical studies dealing with solar terrestrial relationships and 
coupling processes. He has been most recently engaged in sounding 
rocket programs to study the polar mesosphere and its relationship to 
middle atmospheric electrodynamics, and to neutral dynamics and 
turbulence.  Some of his rocket programs are DROPPS-1, launched from 
Norway during July, 1999, and MaCWAVE, launched in summer 2002 from 
Norway, and winter 2003 from Sweden.  He has been Principal 
Investigator for more than 85 sounding rockets during the course of 
his studies. He is currently Goddard Project Scientist for the TIMED 
Satellite, currently dedicated to study of the mesosphere and lower 
thermosphere. He has also published over 125 papers, co-authored the 
book Sun, Weather, and Climate, and edited another entitled Rocket 
Techniques in the Middle Atmosphere.