Leonid MAC home View the shower Mission Brief Science Update Media Brief links		Dr. Stephen B. Mende, University of California, Berkeley Last updated: October 2002 E-mail: mende [at] ssl.berkeley.edu Homepage Brief Biographical Information: Prof. Steven B. Mende is associated with the Atmospherics Emission Group at the Space Physics Research Group at the Space Sciences Laboratory of UC Berkeley, California. Career Summary: 1964-1965 Research Assistant, Imperial College, University of London, England 1966-1967 Research Associate, Rice Univeristy, Houston, Texas 1971-1976 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute, Princeton Univ., Boston College (summers) 1987-1990 Consulting Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 1984-1993 Chemical Release Program, Combined Radiation and Release Satellite (CRRES) 1976-1994 Principal Investigator, Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imager (AEPI) 1981-1995 Spacecraft Glow shuttle flight experiments 1967-1996 Research/Consulting Scientist lockheed Missiles and Space Company 1972- Optical aurora program, Arctic and Antarctica 1996- Senior Fellow, Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley, CA Research: Mende is lead investigator of the Wideband Imaging Camera (WIC), a FUV imager instrument, onboard the IMAGE satellite (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration), launched on March 25, 2000 at 20:34 GMT. Research on Leonid MAC: Fabry Perot spectroscopy of meteors, in a project in collaboration with Rick Rairden. Publications
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