WALTHER N. SPJELDVIK -Experience:
Dr. Spjeldvik has research and development
interests that encompass information technology (IT), internet communications
and
data handling,
space physics and solar system science with emphasis on space plasmas,
magnetically confined energetic charged particles, nuclear particle detection,
and imaging techniques. He has extensive experience in developing mathematical
computer algorithms, he has been instrumental in the construction
of a NASA/GSFC public information data
access system at Goddard Space Flight Center, and he has participated in scientific detector instrumentation
definition, development, and scientific information harvest for several successful
U.S. space missions
(e.g., USAF/SCATHA, NASA/ISEE-1, ISTP/POLAR).
He has knowledge in spacecraft data analysis and scientific interpretation for many space missions (NASA/EXPLORER-45 and NASA/AMPTE-CCE through NASA/ISTP-POLAR), and he is an expert in physical system simulations using mathematical and computational tools (e.g., magnetsospheric space radiation models). Dr. Spjeldvik has interests in remote sensing, in scientific visualization and in imaging techniques. He has repeatedly been a NASA research principal investigator and he is a NASA Headquarters space science management alumnus. He has served as scientific referee to NASA Headquarters, to the National Science Foundation (NSF), to the International Science Foundation (ISF), and as editorial referee to multiple scientific journals: Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR-Blue), Annales Geophysicae, Planetary and Space Science, Advances in Space Research, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, and others.
Dr. Spjeldvik has developed numerous specialized computer algorithms and he has published extensively in the professional literature. He has co-authored the U.S. Air Force Handbook of Geophysics and the Space Environment. Dr. Spjeldvik is affiliated with international science, computer techniques and data analysis collaboration teams, and he participates in and presents papers at national and international symposia and conferences.
He is the Principal Software Developer, and CEO of Nordmann Research and Development, Inc., and Chief Scientist and President with Nordmann Research Ltd., two Colorado information technology, computer software and space science service companies.
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