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Name:	Nelson Leslie Reginald
Mailing Address:	MC 671, Solar Physics Division NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Telephone:	301-286-3040
Fax:	301-286-1617
Email:	Nelson.L.Reginald@nasa.gov

Job Title:	Assistant Research Professor of Physics Institute for Astrophysical and Computational Sciences (IACS) The Catholic University of America 620 Michigan Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C., 20064, USA Full Time Job Location: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center-Solar Physics Division
Job Description:	Modeling, designing and operating the Multi Aperture Coronal Spectrometer (MACS) for simultaneous coronal diagnostics for temperature and wind speed. This instrument is described in detail in NASA Technical Memorandum NASA/TM-2000-209973. Instrument PI: Dr. Joseph M. Davila, Instrument COI: Dr. Nelson L. Reginald
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�	Modeling, designing and operating the Imaging Spectroscopy of Coronal Electrons (ISCORE) for simultaneous coronal mapping for temperature and wind speed. Instrument PI: Dr. Chris St.Cyr, Instrument COI: Dr. Nelson L. Reginald
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�	Member of the Performance Evaluation Team for the Coronagraph (COR 1) instrument in the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Mission. Instrument PI and Project Scientist for STEREO Mission: Dr. Joseph M. Davila
Educational background:
1973-1986	S.Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka (Grade1-12) G.C.E. Ordinary Level (1982), Advanced Level (1985)
1988-1990	Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), United Kingdom Management Accountant (1990)
1990-1993	University of Peradeniya, Department of Physics, Sri Lanka B.Sc. (Hon.) (1993) Major/Minor in Physics/Pure Mathematics External examiner: Prof. Arnold Wolfendale, Astronomer Royal, UK
1994-1997	University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy,� USA MS (1997) Thesis title: 'The effects of element diffusion in the horizontal branch morphology of globular cluster stars ' Thesis committee chairman: James MacDonald, Ph.D.
1998-2000	University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, USA Ph.D. (2000) Thesis title: 'MACS, an Instrument and a methodology for Simultaneous and Global Measurements of the Coronal Electron Temperature and the Solar Wind Velocity on the Solar Corona' Thesis supervisor at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Joseph M. Davila, Ph.D. Thesis committee chairman: Dermott J. Mullan, Ph.D.
Conferences and Other Participations:
1997	International Summer School, L'Aquila, Italy Title: The Sun as seen from Space Host: International School of Space Science
1999	AAS Chicago, USA (poster presentation)
1999	TRACE workshop, California, USA (poster presentation)
1999	Eclipse Expedition, Elazig, Turkey
2000	AGU Washington D.C., USA (poster presentation)
2000	AAS Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA (dissertation talk)
2000	Eclipses and the solar corona conference, Institute of Astrophysics, France (talk)
2000	SERTS instrument launch, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA
2000	Discovery Channel Documentary "Planet Storms"
2000 - 2006	Lecturer NASA SUNBEAMS program
2001	AGU Boston, USA (talk)
2001	STEREO COR-1 Performance Evaluation at NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
2001	African Eclipse Expedition, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia
2002	First STEREO Workshop, Le Carre des Sciences, France
2002	AAS Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (poster presentation)
2002	STEREO COR-1 Final Performance Evaluation at NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA
2002	Eclipse Expedition, Kruger National Park, South Africa
2003	STEREO ETU testing at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, D.C., USA
2003	EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly in Nice, France (talk)
2003	AAS JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA (poster presentation)
2003	STEREO COR-1 Performance Tests at Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, Hawaii, USA
2004	STEREO COR-1 Performance Tests at Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, Hawaii, USA
2004	Inspection tour of the SolarC coronagraph at the Mees Solar Observatory, Haleakala, Hawaii, USA
2005	AGU/SPD Joint Assembly, New Orleans, USA (poster presentation)
2005	SPIE Conference, San Diego, California, USA (talk)
2005	First integration test of the MACS spectrograph with the SolarC coronagraph at the Mees Solar Observatory, Haleakala, Hawaii, USA
2006	Eclipse Expedition to Tunisia and Libya
2006	Solar Physics Division Meeting, New Hampshire, USA
2008	Eclipse Expedition, Gobi Desert, China
2008	Second integration test of the MACS spectrograph with the SolarC coronagraph at the Mees Solar Observatory, Haleakala, Hawaii, USA
2009	Solar Physics Division Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Prizes and Scholarships:
1990	University Scholarship for topping the batch in the GSQ examination, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
1992	Prof. Arnold Wolfendale Prize for Physics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
1993	Dr. H.W. Hewavitharana Prize for Physics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
1994-1997	Full tuition scholarship and teaching assistantship, University of Delaware, USA
1998-2000	NASA Research Fellowship administered through the University of Delaware, USA
Professional Memberships:
�	American Physical Society (APS)
�	American Astronomical Society (AAS)
�	American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Sports and Other Awards:
1978-1985	Field Hockey, S. Thomas' College, Awarded Colours 1985
1978-1985	Basketball, S. Thomas' College, Awarded Colours 1985
1984-1985	Diving, S. Thomas' College, Awarded Colours, 1985
1980-1984	Cadet Corps, S. Thomas' College
1984-1985	Member Boxing Squad, S. Thomas' College
1990-1992	Rugby, University of Peradeniya, Awarded Colours 1992
1992	First place in the inter-university quiz competition in physics Represented the Department of Physics, University of Peradeniya
1990-1992	Field Hockey, University of Peradeniya, Awarded Colours 1992
Publications:
"MACS for Global Measurements of the Solar Wind Velocity and the Thermal Electron Temperature during the Total Solar Eclipse of 11 August 1999": Nelson L. Reginald & Joseph M. Davila, Solar Physics, 195, 111, 2000
"Electron Temperature and Speed Measurements in the Low Solar Corona: Results from the 2001 June Eclipse": Nelson L. Reginald, Chris O. St.Cyr, Joseph M. Davila & Jeffrey W. Brosius, Astrophysical Journal, 599, 596, 2003
*"The Effects of Streamers on the shape of the K-coronal Spectrum": Nelson L. Reginald, Joseph M. Davila & O.C. St.Cyr, Solar Physics, 225(2), 249, 2004*
"The COR1 Inner Coronagaraph for STEREO-SECCHI": W.T. Thomson, J.M. Davila, R.R. Fisher, L.E. Orwig, J.E. Mentzell, S.E. Hetherington, R.J. Derro, R.E. Federline, D.C. Clark, P.T. Chen, J.L. Tveekrem, A.J. Martino, J. Novello, R.P. Wesenberg, O.C. St.Cyr, N.L. Reginald, R.A. Howard, K.I. Mehalick, M.J. Hersh, M.D. Newman, D.L. Thomas, G. Card & D. Elmore, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 4853, 1, (2003)
"Coronal Electron Velocity and Temperature from Thomson Scattered Visible Light": Joseph M. Davila, Nelson L. Reginald and O.C. St.Cyr, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 5901, 590107, (2005)

"*The Radiometric and Pointing Calibration of SECCHI COR1 on STEREO": W.T. Thompson & N.L Reginald Solar Physics, 250, 443, 2008*

"Electron-Temperature Maps of the Low Solar Corona: ISCORE results from the total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 in Libya": Nelson L. Reginald, O.C. St.Cyr, Joseph M. Davila, Douglas M. Rabin, Madhulika Guhathakurta & Donald M. Hassler, Solar Physics, 260, 347-361, 2009

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