Observatory for Heteroscale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (OHMIC) (Jim Burch)
James L. Burch is vice president of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute.
He received his BS in physics in 1964 from St. Mary’s University of Texas and his PhD in space science from Rice University in 1968. He was principal investigator for the Dynamics Explorer 1 high-altitude plasma instrument, the ATLAS-1 Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators, and the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration mission. Currently, he is principal investigator for the ion and electron sensor for the European Space Agency Rosetta comet orbiter and for the instrument suite science team for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to be launched in 2014. Dr. Burch was elected fellow of the AGU in 1995; was the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Van Allen Lecturer and the Rice University Marlar Lecturer, both in 2001; received the first COSPAR Jeoujang Jaw Award in 2008; and in 2010 received the AGU Fleming Medal.
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