Brief Bio

Dave Sheppard is the lead engineer in the Planetary Magnetospheres Laboratory of the Solar System Exploration Division at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research is focused on the development of high-reliability radiation-tolerant instrumentation systems for space research.

In Planetary Magnetospheres, he has worked with MAG team members on the design, build, test, calibration, and in-flight operations of NASA's Juno, Van Allen Probes, MAVEN, Parker Solar Probe, and GOES-18 missions. Instruments for ESCAPADE, GOES-U, GTOSat, and three magnetometers for lunar landers (LLMAG, LMS, LuSEE) are currently in development and test. Prior to magnetometry, he worked in Goddard's Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics on multiple flight missions.

Dave received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, a MS in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, and finally a second MS in Computer Science, also from JHU.

Publications

Refereed

Grimm, R., T. Nguyen, S. Persyn, et al. M. Phillips, D. Stillman, T. Taylor, G. Delory, P. Turin, J. Espley, J. Gruesbeck, and D. Sheppard. 2021. "A magnetotelluric instrument for probing the interiors of Europa and other worlds." Advances in Space Research 68 (4): 2022-2037 [10.1016/j.asr.2021.04.011]

Bowen, T. A., S. D. Bale, J. W. Bonnell, et al. T. Dudok de Wit, K. Goetz, K. Goodrich, J. Gruesbeck, P. R. Harvey, G. Jannet, A. Koval, R. J. MacDowall, D. M. Malaspina, M. Pulupa, C. Revillet, D. Sheppard, and A. Szabo. 2020. "A Merged Search‐Coil and Fluxgate Magnetometer Data Product for Parker Solar Probe FIELDS." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (5): [10.1029/2020ja027813]

Connerney, J. E., M. Benn, J. B. Bjarno, et al. T. Denver, J. Espley, J. L. Jorgensen, P. S. Jorgensen, P. Lawton, A. Malinnikova, J. M. Merayo, S. Murphy, J. Odom, R. Oliversen, R. Schnurr, D. Sheppard, and E. J. Smith. 2017. "The Juno Magnetic Field Investigation." Space Science Reviews [10.1007/s11214-017-0334-z]

Bale, S. D., K. Goetz, P. R. Harvey, et al. P. Turin, J. W. Bonnell, T. Dudok de Wit, R. E. Ergun, R. J. MacDowall, M. Pulupa, M. Andre, M. Bolton, J.-L. Bougeret, T. A. Bowen, D. Burgess, C. A. Cattell, B. D. Chandran, C. C. Chaston, C. H. Chen, M. K. Choi, J. E. Connerney, S. Cranmer, M. Diaz-Aguado, W. Donakowski, J. F. Drake, W. M. Farrell, P. Fergeau, J. Fermin, J. Fischer, N. Fox, D. Glaser, M. Goldstein, D. Gordon, E. Hanson, S. E. Harris, L. M. Hayes, J. J. Hinze, J. V. Hollweg, T. S. Horbury, R. A. Howard, V. Hoxie, G. Jannet, M. Karlsson, J. C. Kasper, P. J. Kellogg, M. Kien, J. A. Klimchuk, V. V. Krasnoselskikh, S. Krucker, J. J. Lynch, M. Maksimovic, D. M. Malaspina, S. Marker, P. Martin, J. Martinez-Oliveros, J. McCauley, D. J. McComas, T. McDonald, N. Meyer-Vernet, M. Moncuquet, S. J. Monson, F. S. Mozer, S. D. Murphy, J. Odom, R. Oliverson, J. Olson, E. N. Parker, D. Pankow, T. Phan, E. Quataert, T. Quinn, S. W. Ruplin, C. Salem, D. Seitz, D. A. Sheppard, A. Siy, K. Stevens, D. Summers, A. Szabo, M. Timofeeva, A. Vaivads, M. Velli, A. Yehle, D. Werthimer, and J. R. Wygant. 2016. "The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus." Space Science Reviews 204 (1-4): 49-82 [10.1007/s11214-016-0244-5]

Connerney, J., J. Espley, P. Lawton, et al. S. Murphy, J. Odom, R. Oliversen, and D. Sheppard. 2015. "The MAVEN Magnetic Field Investigation." Space Science Reviews 195 257-291 [10.1007/s11214-015-0169-4]

Kletzing, C. A., W. S. Kurth, M. Acuna, et al. R. J. MacDowall, R. B. Torbert, T. Averkamp, D. Bodet, S. R. Bounds, M. Chutter, J. Connerney, D. Crawford, J. S. Dolan, R. Dvorsky, G. B. Hospodarsky, J. Howard, V. Jordanova, R. A. Johnson, D. L. Kirchner, B. Mokrzycki, G. Needell, J. Odom, D. Mark, R. Pfaff, J. R. Phillips, C. W. Piker, S. L. Remington, D. Rowland, O. Santolik, R. Schnurr, D. Sheppard, C. W. Smith, R. M. Thorne, and J. Tyler. 2013. "The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP." Space Science Reviews 179 (1-4): 127-181 [10.1007/s11214-013-9993-6]

Mahaffy, P. R., C. R. Webster, M. Cabane, et al. P. G. Conrad, P. Coll, S. K. Atreya, R. Arvey, M. Barciniak, M. Benna, L. Bleacher, W. B. Brinckerhoff, J. L. Eigenbrode, D. Carignan, M. Cascia, R. A. Chalmers, J. P. Dworkin, T. Errigo, P. Everson, H. Franz, R. Farley, S. Feng, G. Frazier, C. Freissinet, D. P. Glavin, D. N. Harpold, D. Hawk, V. Holmes, C. S. Johnson, A. Jones, P. Jordan, J. Kellogg, J. Lewis, E. Lyness, C. A. Malespin, D. K. Martin, J. Maurer, A. C. McAdam, D. McLennan, T. J. Nolan, M. Noriega, A. A. Pavlov, B. Prats, E. Raaen, O. Sheinman, D. Sheppard, J. Smith, J. C. Stern, F. Tan, M. Trainer, D. W. Ming, R. V. Morris, J. Jones, C. Gundersen, A. Steele, J. Wray, O. Botta, L. A. Leshin, T. Owen, S. Battel, B. M. Jakosky, H. Manning, S. Squyres, R. Navarro-González, C. P. McKay, F. Raulin, R. Sternberg, A. Buch, P. Sorensen, R. Kline-Schoder, D. Coscia, C. Szopa, S. Teinturier, C. Baffes, J. Feldman, G. Flesch, S. Forouhar, R. Garcia, D. Keymeulen, S. Woodward, B. P. Block, K. Arnett, R. Miller, C. Edmonson, S. Gorevan, and E. Mumm. 2012. "The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite." Space Sci Rev 170 (1-4): 401-478 [10.1007/s11214-012-9879-z]

Mumm, E., T. Nolan, M. Rutberg, et al. T. Kennedy, D. Sheppard, J. Ji, and S. Gorevan. 2009. "Novel Fault Tolerant Robotic System for Mars Rover." European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium 13 [Full Text (Link)]

Moiseev, A. A., R. C. Hartman, J. F. Ormes, et al. D. J. Thompson, M. J. Amato, T. E. Johnson, K. N. Segal, and D. A. Sheppard. 2007. "The anti-coincidence detector for the GLAST large area telescope." Astroparticle Physics 27 339 [Full Text (Link)] [10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.12.003]

Thompson, D. J., G. Godfrey, S. M. Williams, et al. J. E. Grove, T. Mizuno, H. F. Sadrozinski, T. Kamae, J. Ampe, S. Briber, J. Dann, E. Do Couto E Silva, R. Dubois, Y. Fukazawa, B. Giebels, G. Haller, T. Handa, R. C. Hartman, K. Hirano, M. Hirayama, R. P. Johnson, W. N. Johnson, A. Kavelaars, H. Kelly, S. Kliewer, T. Kotani, J. Krizmanic, W. Kroeger, M. Kuss, D. Lauben, T. Linder, M. Lovellette, N. Lumb, J. Manildi, P. Michelson, H. Mizushima, A. Moiseev, P. L. Nolan, S. Ogata, J. F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, G. Paliaga, B. F. Phlips, S. Ritz, L. S. Rochester, F. M. Roterman, W. A. Rowe, J. J. Russell, R. Schaefer, T. Schalk, D. Sheppard, S. Singh, M. Sjogren, G. Spandre, T. Usher, P. Valtersson, A. P. Waite, J. Wallace, A. Webster, and D. Wood. 2002. "Gamma-ray Large-Area Space Telescope (GLAST) balloon flight engineering model: overview." IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol 49, issue 4, pp 1898-1903 49 1898 [Full Text (Link)] [10.1109/TNS.2002.801548]

Kurczynski, P., R. Pehl, E. Hull, et al. D. Palmer, M. Harris, H. Seifert, B. Teegarden, N. Gehrels, T. Cline, R. Ramaty, D. Sheppard, N. Madden, P. Luke, C. Cork, D. Landis, D. Malone, and K. Hurley. 1999. "Long-term radiation damage to a spaceborne germanium spectrometer." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 431 (1-2): 141-147 [10.1016/s0168-9002(99)00283-1]

Hurley, K., J. H. Primbsch, P. Berg, et al. K. Ziock, I. Mitrofanov, D. Anfimov, A. Chernenko, V. Dolidze, V. Loznikov, A. Pozanenko, A. Tonshev, D. Ushakov, T. Cline, R. Baker, D. Stilwell, D. Sheppard, and N. Madden. 1996. "Burstman: A portable GRB detector for really long voyages." AIP Conference Proceedings 384 (1): [10.1063/1.51601]

Owens, A., R. Baker, T. L. Cline, et al. N. Gehrels, J. Jermakian, T. Nolan, R. Ramaty, H. Seifert, D. A. Shephard, G. Smith, D. E. Stilwell, B. J. Teegarden, C. P. Cork, D. A. Landis, P. N. Luke, N. W. Madden, D. Malone, R. H. Pehl, H. Yaver, K. Hurley, S. Mathias, and A. H. Post. 1995. "A high-resolution Ge spectrometer for Gamma-Ray burst astronomy." Space Science Reviews 71 (1-4): 273-296 [10.1007/bf00751333]

Barry, A., and D. Sheppard. 1994. "High speed data acquisition system for large area proportional counters." IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 41 (4): 1304-1308 [10.1109/23.322904]

Seifert, H., R. Baker, T. L. Cline, et al. N. Gehrels, J. Jermakian, T. Nolan, R. Ramaty, D. A. Sheppard, G. Smith, D. E. Stilwell, B. J. Teegarden, J. Trombka, A. Owens, C. P. Cork, D. A. Landis, P. N. Luke, N. W. Madden, D. Malone, R. H. Pehl, H. Yaver, K. Hurley, S. Mathias, and A. H. Post. 1993. "The transient gamma-ray spectrometer: A new high resolution detector for gamma-ray burst spectroscopy." American Institue of Physics [10.1063/1.44147]