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Edward Rhodes

Education

B.S., Department of Physics (Magna Cum Laude), University of California at Los Angeles (1968)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graduate Study, Earth and Planetary Sciences (1968-1969)
M.A., Department of Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles (1971)
Ph.D., Department of Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles (1977)
N.S.F. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology (1977-1978)

Research Interests

Ground- and space-based observational helioseismology
Solar wind velocity
Solar internal rotation

Professional Experience

University of Southern California, Department of Physics and Astronomy (1979-Present)

Professor of Astronomy (1993-Present)
Assistant and Associate Professor (1979-1993)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Astronomer, Space Physics Research Element (1983-Present)

Selected Awards

General Education Teaching Award, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC (1999)
NASA Certificate of Recognition For the Creative Development of a Technical Innovation Entitled "Instrumentation for Solar Oscillation Measurements at a Solar Observatory" (1983)
Mortar Board Honor Society Teaching Excellence Award, USC (1983)
NASA Traineeship, M.I.T. (1968-1969)
Aerojet-General Science and Engineering Scholarship (1964-1968)

Selected Publications

Rhodes, E.J., Jr., J. Reiter, A.G. Kosovichev, J. Schou, and P.H. Scherrer: 1999, "Solar Internal Rotation as Measured by the SOHO SOI/MDI Full-Disk Program," Bull. Am. Astron. Soc.,32, No. 2, 911-912.
Gonzalez Hernandez, I., J. Patron, T. Roca Cortes, R.S. Bogart, F. Hill, E.J. Rhodes, Jr.; 2000, "A Synoptic View of the Subphotospheric Horizontal Velocity Flows in the Sun," Ap.J., 535, 454-463.
Rhodes, E. J., Jr., J. Reiter, J. Schou, A. G. Kosovichev, and P. H. Scherrer: 2001, "Challenges in High-Degree Helioseismology," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 82, No. 20, S384.
Rhodes, E.J., Jr., J. Reiter, J. Schou, A.G. Kosovichev, and P.H. Scherrer: 2001, "Observed and Predicted Ratios of the Horizontal and Vertical Components of the Solar p-Mode Velocity Eigenfunctions," Ap. J., 561, 1127-1143.
Rhodes, E.J., Jr., J. Reiter, and J. Schou: 2002 "Solar Cycle Variability of High Frequency and High-Degree p-Mode Oscillation Frequencies," in From Solar Min to Max: Half a Solar Cycle with SOHO, Proceedings of SOHO 11 Symposium, A. Wilson ed., ESA SP-508, 37-40.
Reiter, J. E.J. Rhodes, Jr., A.G. Kosovichev, J. Schou, and P.H. Scherrer: 2002, "Effect of Line Asymmetry on Determination of High-Degree Mode Frequencies," ibid., 87-90.
Reiter, J., E.J. Rhodes, Jr., A.G. Kosovichev, J. Schou, and P.H. Scherrer: 2002, "A New Method for Measuring Frequencies and Splittings of High-Degree Modes," ibid., 91-94.
Rhodes, E.J., Jr., J. Reiter, and J. Schou: 2003, "High-Degree p-Modes and the Sun's Evolving Surface," in Local and Global Helioseismology: the Present and Future, ed. A. Wilson, ESA SP-517, 173-182.
Reiter, J., A.G. Kosovichev, E.J. Rhodes, Jr., and J. Schou: 2003: "Accurate Measurements of SOI/MDI High-Degree Frequencies and Frequency Splittings," ibid., 369-372.

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