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Mark Wiedenbeck

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 169-327 Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.354.7168

Fax:

818.354.1004

Member of:

Interstellar and Heliospheric Physics

Education

  • B.S., Physics, University of Michigan, with highest honors (1971)
  • Ph.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology (1978)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Earth and Space Sciences Division (1992-Present)
    • Principal Research Scientist (2001-Present)
    • Research Scientist (1992-2001)
  • University of Chicago, Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute (1983-1992)
    • Associate Professor (1990-1992)
    • Assistant Professor (1983-1990)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory (1978-1983)
    • Assistant Research Physicist (1979-1983)
    • Postgraduate Research Physicist (1978-1979)
  • California Institute of Technology, Department of Physics (1971-1978)
    • Research Fellow (1977-1978)
    • Teaching Assistant (1978)
    • Graduate Research Assistant (1971-1978)

Research Interests

  • The origin and acceleration of energetic particles in a variety of space environments includingon the Sun, in the interplanetary medium and the Galaxy.
  • Instrumentation development for radiation studies in space.

Selected Publications

“3He-Rich Energetic Particles in Helical Jets on the Sun”, Bučík, R., Innes, D. E., Mason, G.M., Wiedenbeck, M.E., Gómez-Herrero, R., Nitta, N.V., The Astrophysical Journal, 852, 76, 2018.

“Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISIS): Design of the Energetic Particle Investigation”, McComas, D. J., Alexander, N., Angold, N., Bale, S., Beebe, C., Birdwell, B., Boyle, M., Burgum, J. M., Burnham, J. A., Christian, E. R., Cook, W. R., Cooper, S. A., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., Desai, M. I., Dickinson, J., Dirks, G., Do, D. H., Fox, N., Giacalone, J., Gold, R. E., Gurnee, R. S., Hayes, J. R., Hill, M. E., Kasper, J. C., Kecman, B., Klemic, J., Krimigis, S. M., Labrador, A. W., Layman, R. S., Leske, R. A., Livi, S., Matthaeus, W. H., McNutt, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, D. G., Nelson, K. S., Parker, C., Rankin, J. S., Roelof, E. C., Schwadron, N. A., Seifert, H., Shuman, S., Stokes, M. R., Stone, E. C., Vandegriff, J. D., Velli, M., von Rosenvinge, T. T., Weidner, S. E., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Wilson, P., Space Science Reviews, 204, 187, 2016.

“Galactic Cosmic Ray Origins and OB Associations: Evidence from SuperTIGER Observations of Elements 26Fe through 40Zr”, Murphy, R. P., Sasaki, M., Binns, W. R., Brandt, T. J., Hams, T., Israel, M. H., Labrador, A. W., Link, J. T., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, J. W., Rauch, B. F., Sakai, K., Stone, E. C., Waddington, C. J., Walsh, N. E., Ward, J. E., Wiedenbeck, M. E., The Astrophysical Journal, 831, 148, 2016.

“Evidence for a Common Acceleration Mechanism for Enrichments of 3He and Heavy Ions in Impulsive SEP Events”, Mason, G. M., Nitta, N. V., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Innes, D. E., The Astrophysical Journal, 823, 138, 2016.

“Observation of the 60Fe nucleosynthesis-clock isotope in galactic cosmic rays”, Binns, W. R., Israel, M. H., Christian, E. R., Cummings, A. C., de Nolfo, G. A., Lave, K. A., Leske, R. A., Mewaldt, R. A., Stone, E. C., von Rosenvinge, T. T., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Science, 352, 677, 2016. .

“The Interplanetary Population of Suprathermal Ions from Impulsive Solar Energetic Particle Events: Solar Cycle Variations”, Wiedenbeck, M. E., Mason, G. M., Outstanding Problems in Heliophysics: From Coronal Heating to the Edge of the Heliosphere, 484, 234, 2014.

“Observations of Solar Energetic Particles from 3He-rich Events over a Wide Range of Heliographic Longitude”, Wiedenbeck, M. E., Mason, G. M., Cohen, C. M. S., Nitta, N. V., Gómez-Herrero, R., Haggerty, D. K., The Astrophysical Journal, 762, 54, 2013.

“Heavy-ion Fractionation in the Impulsive Solar Energetic Particle Event of 2002 August 20: El- ements, Isotopes, and Inferred Charge States”, Wiedenbeck, M. E., Cohen, C. M. S., Leske, R. A., Mewaldt, R. A., Cummings, A. C., Stone, E. C., von Rosenvinge, T. T., The Astrophysical Journal, 719, 1212, 2010.

“STEREO Observations of Energetic Neutral Hydrogen Atoms During the 2006 December 5 Solar Flare”, Mewaldt, R. A., Leske, R. A., Stone, E. C., Barghouty, A. F., Labrador, A. W., Cohen, C. M. S., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., von Rosenvinge, T. T., Wiedenbeck, M. E., The Astrophysical Journal, 693, L11, 2009.