Memberships
Member, American Geophysical
Union;
Member, CEDAR Science
Steering Committee (1996-99)
Professional Experience
2001-to date Associate
Professor of Physics, Utah State University.
1997- 2001 Research Professor, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State
University.
1997-1998 Visiting Professor, Radio Atmospheric Science Center,
Kyoto University, Japan.
1991-1997 Research Associate Professor, Space Dynamics Laboratory,
Utah State University.
Since moving to the USA in 1991 my
primary research activities have focussed on the development and
utilization of novel imaging instrumentation (CEDAR Class 1 All-Sky,
Monochromatic Nightglow Imager and an OH/O2 Mesospheric Temperature
Mapper) and associated digital analysis techniques for remote sensing
studies of upper atmospheric phenomena. These include mesospheric
and thermospheric airglow emissions, atmospheric gravity waves,
noctilucent clouds, equatorial and mid-latitude F region dynamics,
mid- and high latitude aurora, and the spectral-spatial signatures
of lightning-induced optical transients termed “sprites”,
“halos” and “elves. I have also employed high-resolution
video imaging techniques to investigate Leonid meteor ablation signatures.
Recently my research interests have expanded to include satellite
borne measurements of polar mesospheric clouds as Co-I on the NASA
Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission. As part of my research
I have established collaborative measurement programs with several
institutions in the USA, U.K., Brazil and Japan and I am actively
involved with long-term and mesospheric image and temperature measurements
at Bear Lake Observatory, Utah and the AEOS Facility, Haleakala,
Hawaii. I am a regular reviewer for JGR, GRL, JASTP, Applied Optics,
AGU and Annales Geophysicae and a referee for NSF, NASA and AFOSR.
To date, I have published over 60 papers in these research areas.
Select Publications
Taylor, M.J., and W.R. Pendleton
Jr., Buoyancy and buoyancy waves: optical observations, Encyclopedia
of Atmospheric Sciences, Pub. Elsevier Science Ltd. , 323-330,
2003.
Taylor, M.J., W.R. Pendleton, Jr. S.H. Seo and R.H. Picard, Remote
sensing of gravity wave intensity and temperature signatures at
mesopause heights using the nightglow emissions, SPIE, 4882,
122, 2003.
Smith, S.M., M.J. Taylor, G.R. Swenson, C.-Y. She, W. Hocking, J.
Baumgardner & M. Mendillo, A multidiagnostic investigation of
the mesospheric bore phenomenon, J. Geophys. Res., 108,
No. A2, 1083, 10.1029/2002JA009555, 2003.
Taylor, M.J., J.-M. Jahn, S. Fukao, and A. Saito, Possible evidence
of gravity wave coupling into the mid-latitude F region ionosphere
during the SEEK campaign, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1801,
1998.
Armstrong, R.A., J.A. Shorter, M.J. Taylor, D.M. Suszcynsky, W.A.
Lyons and L.S. Jeong, Photometric measurements in the SPRITES’95
& ’96 campaigns nitrogen second positive (399.8 nm) and
first negative (427.8 nm) emission, J. Atmos. Space. Terr. Phys.,
60,787, 1998.
Taylor, M.J., W.R. Pendleton, S. Clark, H. Takahashi, D. Gobbi,
& R.A. Goldberg, Image measurements of short period gravity
waves at equatorial latitudes, J. Geophys. Res.,102, 26283,
1997.
Isler, J.R., M.J. Taylor and D.C. Fritts, Observational evidence
of wave ducting in the mesosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102,
26301, 1997.
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