CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Roy B. Torbert, Dean

BORN
5 July 1949
Columbus, Georgia, USA.

EDUCATION

Episcopal High School; Alexandria, Virginia, 1967.
Princeton University, B.A. in Physics, 1971.
University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. in Physics, 1979.

AWARDS

National Science Foundation Fellow; 1971-1975.
NASA Summer Faculty Fellow; 1985 and 1986.
Von Braun Fellow; University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1985.

EMPLOYMENT

1995	Dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Science and
	Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space
	University of New Hampshire
	Durham, New Hampshire 03824

1992	Professor of Physics and
	Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space

1989	Associate Professor of Physics and
	Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space
	University of New Hampshire

1985	Associate Professor of Physics
	University of Alabama in Huntsville
	Huntsville, Alabama, USA. 35899

1983	Associate Research Physicist
	Center for Astrophysics and Space Science
	University of California, San Diego

1979	Assistant Research Physicist
	Space Science Laboratory
	University of California, Berkeley
SELECTED PAPERS
  1. Torbert, R.B. and P.T. Newell, "A Magnetospheric Critical Velocity Experiment: Particle Results," J. Geophys. Res., 91, 9947, (1986).
  2. G. Paschmann, C.E. McIlwain, R.B. Torbert, J.M. Quinn, V. Formisano, A. Pedersen, H. Hayakawa, et.al., "The Electron Drift Instrument," ESA Publication SP-1103, p. 55, 1988.
  3. J. Labelle, R.J. Sica, C. Kletzing, G.D. Earle, M.C. Kelley, D. Lummerzheim, R.B. Torbert, K.D. Baker, and G. Berg, "Ionization from Soft Electron Precipitation in the Auroral F Region," J. Geophys. Res., 94, p.3791, 1989.
  4. N. Brenning, C.G. Falthammar, G. Haerendel, M. Kelley, G. Marklund, R. Pfaff, J. Providakes, H.C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, C. Swenson, R.B. Torbert, and E.M. Wescott, "Electrodynamic Interacton between the CRIT I Ionized Barium Streams and the Ambient Ionosphere," Adv. Space Res., 10 (7), p.67, 1990.
  5. R.B. Torbert, C.A. Kletzing, K. Liou, and D. Rau, "Prompt Ionization in the CRIT II Barium Releases," Geophys. Res. Lett., 19 (10), p. 973, 1992.
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