Douglas Rowland is the Chief of the Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics Laboratory in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests include the dynamics of the upper atmosphere, and the coupling of the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. His primary research activities have involved the analysis of electric field and particle data, primarily from sounding rockets, and the development of sounding rocket electric field instrumentation to address problems in ionospheric physics and M-I coupling.
Dr. Rowland previously served as the Mission Scientist for the ICON Explorer Mission, as the Project Scientist for the ASTRE Phase A Concept Study, and as Deputy PI for the MEME-X Phase A Concept Study. Dr. Rowland led the first NASA Goddard Cubesat mission, "Firefly", which operated for four years on orbit, and has developed experiments for small satellites and the International Space Station, as well as over 17 sounding rocket payloads.
Electrodynamics of the Earth's ionosphere
Ion-Neutral coupling processes in the Earth's Thermosphere
Explorer and Cubesat missions to study the coupled M-I-T-M system
Earth's Magnetosphere
Space Weather in Geospace
9/2005
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Present
Space Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
NASA GSFC Greenbelt, MD
11/2003
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9/2005
NRC NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
National Research Council,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
10/2002
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10/2003
Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Douglas Rowland is the Chief of the Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics Laboratory in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests include the dynamics of the upper atmosphere, and the coupling of the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. His primary research activities have involved the analysis of electric field and particle data, primarily from sounding rockets, and the development of sounding rocket electric field instrumentation to address problems in ionospheric physics and M-I coupling.
Dr. Rowland previously served as the Mission Scientist for the ICON Explorer Mission, as the Project Scientist for the ASTRE Phase A Concept Study, and as Deputy PI for the MEME-X Phase A Concept Study. Dr. Rowland led the first NASA Goddard Cubesat mission, "Firefly", which operated for four years on orbit, and has developed experiments for small satellites and the International Space Station, as well as over 17 sounding rocket payloads.
