SPECIALIZED
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Aeronomy and ionospheric
physics: Lidar, FPI, ISR
Teaching and supervising graduate students at both MS and PhD levels
Research administration; scientific programming
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Wickwar is a member
of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences and professor of
physics, Utah State University. He has taught courses in optics
and aeronomy, and served as thesis advisor for a number of graduate
students. He has been the principal investigator on a number of
grants involving studies of the middle or upper atmosphere with
lidar, photometers, Fabry-Perot interferometry , and incoherent-scatter
(IS) radar. From 1973 to 1988, he was employed at SRI International,
where he was co-principal investigator of the Sondrestrom incoherent-scatter
radar and principal investigator on numerous IS radar studies using
data from the Arecibo, Chatanika/Sondrestrom, EISCAT, Millstone
Hill, and St. Santin radars. These studies included the joint American-French
plasma line experiments at high latitudes and investigations of
photoelectrons and secondary electrons. He also served as a correlative
investigator on the UARS satellite team and as a guest investigator
on the Atmospheric Explorer and Dynamic Explorer satellite teams.
He has developed both hardware and software for data acquisition
and analysis and has been instrumental in establishing NCAR’s
IS data base, which developed into the CEDAR data base. During a
2-year leave-of-absence from SRI, Dr. Wickwar served as the NSF
Program Director for Aeronomy. He has collaborated extensively with
French aeronomers at both the University of Grenoble and France’s
Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS
Dr. Wickwar is a member
of AGU, where he served as its Aeronomy Secretary from 1988-1990,
and is a member of Commission G of URSI, where he was chairman of
its Incoherent Scatter Working Group for 6 years. He is also a member
of Commission C of COSPAR, a member of Sigma Xi, AAAS, SPIE, and
the Societe des Ingenieurs et Scientifiques de France. He was a
member of the CEDAR committees on lidar and IS radar and was a co-leader
of the CADITS projects under CEDAR and STEP. In 1984, he was the
co-guest editor of GRL’s special issue dealing with early
results from the Sondrestrom radar, and that same year he received
SRI’s exceptional achievement award. He is the author or coauthor
of more than 80 scientific articles and papers and more than 200
national or international conference presentations.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Rees, D., A. Aruliah,
T.J. Fuller-Rowell, V.B. Wickwar, R.J. Sica, Winds in the Upper
Mesosphere at Mid-Latitude: First Results Using an Imaging Fabry
Perot Interferometer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1259-1262,
1990.
Choi, G.-H., I.K. Monson,
V.B. Wickwar, and D. Rees, Seasonal variations of temperature near
the mesopause from Fabry-Perot interferometer observations of OH
Meinel emissions, Adv. Space Res., 21, (6)843–(6)846,
1997.
Choi, G.-H., I.K. Monson,
V.B. Wickwar, and D. Rees, Seasonal and diurnal variations of temperature
near the mesopause from Fabry-Perot interferometer observations
of OH Meinel emissions, Adv. Space. Res., 21, (6)847–(6)850,
1997.
Wickwar, V.B., T.D.
Wilkerson, M. Hammond, and J.P. Herron, Mesospheric temperature
observations at the USU / CASS Atmospheric Lidar Observatory (ALO),
in Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, pp.
13, SPIE, Sendai, Japan, February 2001.
Wickwar, V.B., M.J.
Taylor, J.P. Herron, and B.A. Martineau, Visual and lidar observations
of noctilucent clouds above Logan, Utah, at 41.7°N, J. Geophys.
Res., 107 (D7), doi:10.1029/2001JD001180.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Wickwar, V.B., T.D.
Wilkerson, J.W. Meriwether, Jr., D. Rees, The Consortium Lidar:
Results, and Facilities Present and Planned, Optical Remote Sensing
of the Atmosphere, 1995 Technical Digest Series, 2, WA4-1, 171-173,
1995.
Wickwar, V.B., K.C.
Beissner, T.D. Wilkerson, S.C. Collins, J.M. Maloney, J.W. Meriwether,
and X. Gao, Climatology of mesospheric temperature profiles observed
with the Consortium Rayleigh-scatter lidar at Logan, Utah, in Advances
in Atmospheric Remote Senising with Lidar, edited by A. Ansmann,
R. Neuber, P. Rairoux, and U. Wandinger, pp. 557–560, Springer
Verlag, Berlin, 1997.
Gao, X., J.W. Meriwether,
V.B. Wickwar, T.D. Wilkerson, and S.C. Collins, Rayleigh lidar measurements
of the temporal frequency and vertical wavenumber spectra in the
mesosphere over the Rocky Mountain region, J. Geophys. Res.,
103, 6405–6416, 1998.
Meriwether, J.W., X.
Gao, V.B. Wickwar, T.D. Wilkerson, K.C. Beissner, S.C. Collins,
and M.E. Hagan, Observed coupling of the mesosphere inversion layer
to the thermal tidal structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25,
1479–1482 & 2127, 1998.
Wickwar, V.B., and H.C.
Carlson, Ionospheric and thermospheric couplings: vertical, latitudinal,
and longitudinal, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 61, 141–152,
1999.
PREVIOUS AND CURRENT COLLABORATORS
K.C. Beissner, H.C. Carlson, G.-H. Choi, S.C. Collins, X. Gao, M.E.
Hagan, D.F. Heller, J.A. McKay, J.W. Meriwether, Jr., I.K. Monson,
D. Rees, R.D. Sears, R.W. Schunk, J.C. Walling, T.D. Wilkerson,
and L. Zhou
GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISEES—TOTALS: 13 STUDENTS, 2
POST-DOCS
K.C. Beissner, D. Della-Rose,
P. Engelmann, J.P. Herron, I.K. Monson, K.L.N. Nelson, C. Vadnais,
and L. Zhou
GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISORS
B.J. O’Brian,
W.E. Gordon, J.C.G. Walker |
