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PHILIP R. GOODE

 

Education:

 

Ph.D. (Theoretical Nuclear) Physics, February 1969

Rutgers, The State University

 

A.B. Physics, June 1964

University of California, Berkeley

 

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Present Positions:

 

1997-   Director, Big Bear Solar Observatory, NJIT

             Director, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, NJIT

 

1994-   Distinguished Professor, Physics, NJIT

 

Research Interests and Experience:

 

Sun’s interior and atmosphere; magnetic fields; helioseismology; climate studies. Over 200 refereed publications.

 

Among 24 current and past students and postdocs, 12 have moved on to faculty/national center tenure track positions. 

 

Leading the project to build BBSO’s 1.6 m clear aperture, off-axis solar telescope (world’s largest aperture) that had its first light early in 2009.  Its light will feed our  high order adaptive optics system, which in turn will feed our next generation, Fabry-Perot based,  visible light and near infrared polarimeters.   BBSO also has a fully operational Beowulf cluster doing real-time image reconstruction. 

 

Long experience in helioseismology and studies of magnetic fields, especially in combining BBSO ground-based data with satellite data to determine dynamic properties of the solar magnetic fields, place a lower limit on solar irradiance and to probe the solar interior.  

 

More than a decade of fundamental climate change research experience measuring the Earth’s large-scale reflectance using the earthshine, and modeling the Earth’s reflectivity using satellite cloud cover data, and finding appreciable decadal variation of reflectance due to cloud changes.  Building a global network to measure the Earth’s global reflectance.  Earth’s reflectance is the least well-measured of the three fundamental climate parameters.

 

 

 

Recent Committees:

2008: NASA SMEX Selection Panel
2006-2007: NASA Lunar Architecture Subcommittee-Science & Return to Moon
2005: NASA:Senior Review
2005-2008: AAS Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation Comm.
2003: NASA: Senior Review
2001-2002: Solar and Space Sciences Survey Committee
2001: NSF-ATM: HAO Review
2001: NSF-AST: NOAO Management Recompetition Panel
2001: Augustine Panel (Blue Ribbon Panel)
1999-2000: Solar Panel, Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey
1999: NSF-AST Committee of Visitors

 

Awards and Honors:             

Fellow: American Physical Society
Minor Planet 11790 Goode
SERC Senior Fellow: University of Cambridge
Three Varsity Letters: Cal, Berkeley, Multiple University Swim Records
AAU Masters and USMS: Several Time USA Master’s Swim Champion

 

NJIT Awards and Honors:


First NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award, 2008a, b

Exceptional Research and Service Award, 2004

Harlan J. Perlis Research Award, 1993

Tau Beta Pi: NJIT, 1985

 

Society Memberships:

 

American Physical Society (Fellow)                   

American Astronomical Society                         

American Geophysical Union                              

American Association for Advancement of Science

International Astronomical Union

Sigma Xi

Big C Society

 

Positions Held:
 

1997 - present:

Director, Big Bear Solar Observatory

DIrector, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research

New Jersey Institute of Technology

 

1994 - present:

Distinguished Professor, Physics

New Jersey Institute of Technology

 

1996 - 2005:

Visiting Associate, Physics

California Institute of Technology

 

1984 -1990: 

Chairperson, Department of Physics
New Jersey Institute of Technology
 

1990 -1991:

SERC Visiting Fellow, Institute of Astronomy
University of Cambridge
 

1984 -1994:

 

Professor of Physics
New Jersey Institute of Technology
 

1986 -1996:

Visiting Scientist
Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland
 

1980 -1984

Associate Research Professor
University of Arizona
 

1977 -1980:

Member of Technical Staff
Bell Telephone Laboratories
 

1971 -1977:

Assistant Professor of Physics
Rutgers University
 

1969 -1971:

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Rochester
 

1969:

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rutgers University
 

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