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David Buhl Planetary Systems Laboratory NASA/GSFC, Code 693.0 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-3942 Email: David Buhl

Current Position

Research Scientist, Planetary Systems Laboratory

Education

B. S. and M. S. in Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1960
Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering and Astronomy
University of California
Berkeley, California
1967

Professional Experience

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:Study of the composition and evolution of molecules in the giant dust clouds of the galaxy. Measurement of the major molecules in planetary and terrestrial atmospheres.The use of Doppler shifts of molecular lines to determine planetary winds on a global scale. Development of Infrared Heterodyne Receivers for high resolution astronomical spectroscopy.

APPOINTMENTS:

• 1974-2005 Research Scientist
  Planetary Systems / Infrared Astronomy Branch
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md


• 1967-1974 Astronomer / Scientist
  National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Va


• 1964-1967 Research Assistant
  Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ Cal, Berkeley, Cal


• 1961-1964 Electronics Engineer
  Lawrence Radiation Lab, Livermore, Cal


• 1958-1961 Research Assistant
  Research Lab for Electronics, MIT


• 1956-1958 Engineer / MIT Co-op Program
  General Electric Co, Syracuse, New York

Selected Publications

2005  Kostiuk, T., T. A. Livengood, T. Hewagama , D. Buhl et al. Titan's Equatorial Zonal Wind, Temperature and Ethane Abundance Prior to Huygens Insertion, GRL, Submitted.

2005  Kostiuk, T., T. A. Livengood, T. Hewagama, G. Sonnabend, K. E. Fast, K. Murakawa, A. T. Tokunaga, J. Annen, D. Buhl, F. Schmuelling, Titan's Wind and Unanticipated Temperature Asymmetry, Astro-Ph: http://arxiv.org/abs/astroph/0412664.

2005  Hewagama, T., J. Goldstein, D. Buhl, F. Espenak, K. Fast, T. Kostiuk, and T. Livengood, Spectral Line Analysis for Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics Retrieval: Titan Observations, manuscript in preparation.

2001  Kostiuk, Th., K. E. Fast, T. A. Livengood, T. Hewagama, J. J. Goldstein, F. Espenak, D. Buhl, Direct Measurement of Winds on Titan, Geophysical Research Letters 28, 2361-2364.

1999  Livengood, T. A., K. E. Fast, T. Kostiuk, F. Espenak, D. Buhl, J. J. Goldstein, T. Hewagama and K. H. Ro, Refraction by Earth's Atmosphere near 12 Microns,Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 111, 512-521.

1997  Kostiuk, T., Fast, K., Livengood, T. A., Goldstein, J., Hewagama, T., Buhl, D., Espenak, F. Ro, K.,H.,"Ethane abundance on Titan", Plan. Sp.Sci., 45, 931K.

1996  Kostiuk, Theodor; Buhl, David; Espenak, Fred; Romani, Paul; Bjoraker, Gordon; Fast, Kelly; Livengood, Timothy; Zipoy, David, "Stratospheric Ammonia on Jupiter after the SL9 Collision", Icarus, 121, 431K.

1995  Orton, G., A'Hearn, M., Baines, K., Deming, D., Dowling, T., ..., Buhl, D., et al., "Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter Observed by the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility", Science, 267, 1277.

1994  Radio Observations of Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Mesospheric Winds of Venus, D. Buhl, J. J. Goldstein and G. Chin, Bull Am Ast Soc, 25, 1331.

1991  Discovery of a Doppler Limited CO Line in the Upper Mesosphere of Venus: A New Dynamical Probe, D. Buhl, G. Chin and J. J. Goldstein, Astrophys J, 369, L17.

1990  Study of CO in the Upper Atmosphere of Venus Using a 434 micron Laser Heterodyne Receiver, D. Buhl and G. Chin, IEEE Conf on Mm Wave and Far Infrared Technology, Beijing, China (IEEE no. 89TH 0257-6) p. 15.