Lennard Fisk, Ph.D. Title: Chairman of the Board Email Address: lfisk@michiganaerospace.com Phone Number: 734-975-8777 x102

Career Background:

Lennard A. Fisk is the Thomas M. Donahue Collegiate Professor of Space Science in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he also served as Chair from 1993-2003. Prior to joining the University, Dr. Fisk was the Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In this position he was responsible for the planning and direction of all NASA programs concerned with space science and applications and for the institutional management of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Prior to becoming Associate Administrator in April 1987, Dr. Fisk served as Vice President for Research and Financial Affairs at the University of New Hampshire. In this position, he was responsible for the administration of the University research activities and was the chief financial officer of the University. Dr. Fisk joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of New Hampshire in 1977, and founded the Solar-Terrestrial Theory Group in 1980. He was an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 1971 to 1977, and a National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Goddard from 1969 to 1971.

Positions Held:

Honors and Awards:

Administrator, Responsible for the planning and direction of all NASA programs concerned with space science and applications and for the institutional management of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, 1987-1993.

Co-Investigator, Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) on the Ulysses Mission; 1979-87, 1993-present; SWICS and High Mass Resolution Spectrometers on WIND, 1993-present

Participating Scientist, SWICS and Solar Wind Ion Mass Spectrometer (SWIMS) on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), 1995-present

Profession Services (Selected List):

Education:

Ph.D. (Applied Physics) University of California, San Diego, 1969
A.B. (Physics) Cornell University, 1965

Selected Publications (from more than 170 in refereed journals):

• Fisk, L. A., The open magnetic field of the Sun 1: Transport by reconnection with coronal loops, Astrophys. J., in press, 2005
• Fisk, L. A., Acceleration of the solar wind as a result of the reconnection of open magnetic flux with coronal loops, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (A4), pp. SSH 7-1, CiteID 1157, DOI 10.1029/2002JA009284, 2003.
• Fisk, L. A., and N. A. Schwadron, The behavior of the open magnetic field of the Sun, Astrophys. J., 560 (1), 425-438, 2001.
• Fisk, L. A., N. A. Schwadron and T. H. Zurbuchen, Acceleration of the fast solar wind by the emergence of new magnetic flux, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (A9), 19,765-19,772,1999
• Fisk, L. A., T. H. Zurbuchen and N. A. Schwadron, On the corona magnetic field: Consequences of large-scale motions, Astrophys. J., 521 (2), 868-877, 1999.
• Fisk, L. A., Motions of the footpoints of heliospheric magnetic field lines at the Sun: Implications for recurrent energetic particle events at high heliographic latitudes, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15,549, 1996.
• Fisk, L. A. and M. A. Lee Shock, Acceleration of Energetic Particles in Corotating Interaction Regions in the Solar Wind, Astrophys. J. 237, 620, 1980.
• Fisk, L. A., 3He-rich flares: A possible explanation, Astrophys. J., 224, 1048, 1978.
• Fisk, L. A., B. Kozlovski, and R. Ramaty, An interpretation of the observed oxygen and nitrogen enhancements in low energy cosmic rays, Astrophys. J. Lett., 190, L35, 1974.