Bela G. Fejer

Professor
Employed at USU 1987
BS (1968) University of Sa Paulo, Brazil
MS (1970) Brazilian Space Institute
PhD (1974) Cornell University


Research Interests:

Telephone #: (435) 797-3627
E-mail address: bfejer@cc.usu.edu

SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND

B. G. Fejer is a Professor at the Physics Department and in the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences at Utah State University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was a Visiting Professor at the Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory of Nagoya University during January-April 1994. He has as extensive experience on the study of ionospheric electric fields and plasma drifts using incoherent scatter radar observations and satellite measurements, and has also been involved in the study of ionospheric plasma waves in the equatorial and auroral regions. He has been involved a numerous coordinated studies of the thermosphere and ionosphere. He was a member of the CEDAR steering committee of the Aeronomy Program of the National Science Foundation, President of the Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics of the IPHG (Pan American Institute of History and Geography of the Organization of American States), member of the NASA Strategic Panning Committee in 1990, Chairman of the organizing committee of the International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy (ISEA) held in Tucuman, Argentina, Co-Chairman of the ISEA meeting held in Bali in 1995, member of the organizing committee of the Chapman Conference on Magnetic Storms in 1996, and a member of the external review committee of the Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory of Nagoya University in 1995. He is presently an associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Space Physics, and a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Geophysics.

PUBLICATIONS
(Since 1995)

Fejer, B. G. and L. Scherliess, Time dependent response of equatorial ionospheric electric fields to magnetospheric disturbances, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 851, 1995.

Fejer, B. G., E. R. de Paula, R. A. Heelis, and W. B. Hanson, Global equatorial ionospheric vertical plasma drifts measured by the AE-E satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 5769, 1995.

Jacobson, A. R., G. Hoogeveen, R. C. Carlos, G. Wu, B. G. Fejer, and M. C. Kelley, Observations of inner plasmasphere irregularities with a satellite-beacon radio-interferometer, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 19665, 1996.

Fejer, B. G., E. R. de Paula, L. Scherliess, and I. S. Batista, Incoherent scatter radar, ionosonde, and satellite measurements of equatorial F region vertical plasma drifts in the evening sector, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1733, 1996.

Fejer, B. G., Natural Ionospheric Plasma Waves, in Modern Ionospheric Science, H. Kohl, R. Ruster, and K. Schlegel (Eds.), p216-273, European Geophysical Society, Katlenburg-Lindau, 1996.

Fejer, B. G., The electrodynamics of the low latitude ionosphere: Recent results and future challenges, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 59, 1465, 1997.

Fuller-Rowell, T. J., M. V. Codrescu, B. G. Fejer, W. Borer, F. Marcos, and D. N. Anderson, Dynamics of the low-latitude thermosphere: Quiet and disturbed conditions, J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 59, 1533, 1997.

Scherliess, L., and B. G. Fejer, Storm-time dependence of equatorial disturbance dynamo zonal electric fields , J. Geophys. Res., 102, 24037, 1997a.

Fejer, B. G. and L. Scherliess, Empirical models of storm-time equatorial zonal electric fields, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 24047, 1997.