David Gary Sibeck

Dr. Sibeck's research focuses upon the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere, the regions where most space weather effects are felt. Following a post-doc working on AMPTE/CCE observations of the Earth's radiation belts from 1985-1987, he advanced to a Principal Professional Staff position at nearby JHU/APL. Here he became an AGU fellow, received the AGU's Macelwane award, actively participated in the Czech, Russian, and Slovak Prognoz and Interball spacecraft programs (ultimately receiving a medal from Charles University in Prague for his services), led successful efforts to preserve and provide endangered NASA magnetospheric data sets, organized a series of competitively awarded research groups at Switzerland's International Space Science Institute, and participated in a study to define the USAF's space weather needs.

Upon moving to NASA/GSFC in 2002, he was almost immediately detailed to NASA/HQ, where he served a two-year term as Deputy Program Scientist setting up and running the Living With a Star (LWS) program, NASA's preeminent space weather program. Since returning to NASA/GSFC in 2004, his work as Project and Mission Scientists has focused on the remarkably successful THEMIS/ARTEMIS Explorer and LWS Van Allen Probes missions. In recent years he has taken on the leadership of a cross-disciplinary group prototyping a wide field-of-view soft x-ray imager with applications for solar wind-magnetosphere and solar wind-planetary applications. Nevertheless, community service and research remain at the core of his interests. He has served as editor or guest editor for several major journals and led the National Science Foundation's Geospace Environment Modeling program, which organizes the preeminent annual meeting of magnetospheric physicists in the United States. He was on a committee that reviewed the full range of NSF Upper Atmospheric activities and he has served continuously on the ESA Cluster Active Archive advisory committee for the past decade. He is Past-President of the American Geophysical Union's Space Physics and Aeronomy section. His most frequently cited first-authored papers concern the responses of the Earth's dayside magnetosphere, ionosphere, and magnetotail to varying solar wind conditions. It has been his privilege to learn from and mentor a series of extraordinarily productive postdoctoral students.

 Publications: 468 refereed, of which 75 are first-authored (h-index = 71, cited 21181 times by other authors). First-authored topics range from solar wind structures to transient events in the Earth's equatorial and polar ionosphere. Recent research focuses upon simulations, microphysics of the foreshock, the magnetopause, and geomagnetic pulsations

2001, Taught Magnetospheric Physics, Catholic University

Editorial Activities:

Corresponding Editor, EOS 2005-2010 (reviewed all space plasma physics contributions and many in other disciplines)

Guest Editor Advances in Space Research 2005-2010 for all space plasma physics contributions at COSPAR meetings

Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters 2004-2007

NSF Activities:

Chair, GEM Steering Committee 2011-2013

Chair-Elect, GEM Steering Committee 2009-2010

GEM GI Campaign Coordinator 2004-2010

Upper Atmosphere Program Review Committee 2008

NRC Activities

Member, NRC Post-Doc Review Committee 1993-2002 (reviewed all space physics proposals to all NASA installations)

Co-Chair, Theory, Modeling, and Data Exploration section of Decadel Survey (2001-2002)

AGU Activities

President, SPA Section of AGU 2015-2016

President-Elect, SPA Section of AGU 2013-2014

Member, AGU Flinn Award Committee, 1996-1997

NASA/HQ Activities

MO&DA MOWG advisory committee 2003-2009

ILWS Executive Secretary, 2004-2007

Member, Magnetospheric Constellation Science Definition Team, 2002-2005

Deputy Program Scientist, LWS 2003-2004

Panel Member, LWS TR&T Advisory Committee 2002-2004

Joint Chair, LWS Data System Planning Team 2001-2002

Member, SSDS Technical Working Group 1997-1999

Chair, Magnetospheric Space Physics Data System 1993-1998

Member, Magnetospheric MOWG 1992-1995

Member, NASA Data Preservation Committee 1991-1993

Air Force

Member, Air Force Space Weather Operations Center Design Study

GSFC

Member, CCMC Advisory Committee 2002-2004

Member NSSDC Format Evaluation Process Committee 1999-2000

Chair, SSDOO, GSFC Visiting Committee 1996-1997

PhD (Atmospheric Sciences, 1984) UCLA

M.S. (Atmospheric Sciences, 1982) UCLA

B. A. (Meteorology, 1979) UCLA

2010 Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award, NASA

2009 Exceptional Achievement Award: Science.  NASA/GSFC

2003 Medal for Contributions to the Interball Mission, Charles University

1992 Macelwane Award, AGU

1992 Fellow, AGU

Languages:  Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian.  Working on Brazilian Portuguese.

Doctoral Committees

Mohammed Alothman, Boston University

Yaireska Collado-Vega, Catholic University

Christina Chu University of Alaska

Nathaniel Frissell, Virginia Tech

Marcos Silveira, INPE, Brazil

Vitor Souza, INPE, Brazil

Claudia Medeiros, INPE, Brazil]

Jose Marchezi, INPE, Brazil

Andrew Vu, U. Alaska

Jaewoong Jung, U. Alaska