Carl L. Siefring

Carl L. Siefring received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1987. He has been involved in over 20 successful sounding rocket experiments and delivered instruments for 11 satellite missions since 1981. He has developed instruments to make electric field, plasma wave, and Langmuir probe measurements from sounding rockets and satellites. He is currently a Research Physicist with the Plasma Physics Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, and serves as a Co-Investigator and Project Scientist for numerous programs with the Space Use and Plasma Environment Research Section. His work covers a wide range of ionospheric and space environmental effects research using in situ and remote sensing techniques. He has authored over 50 refereed papers. His current research interests include determining ionospheric plasma effects on radio communications, navigation and radar system performance, but also includes radiation belt particle mitigation, spacecraft charging, and bench-marking space weather models.