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Fred Espenak Planetary Systems Laboratory NASA/GSFC, Code 693.0 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-5333 Email: Fred Espenak

Current Position

Astrophysicist, Planetary Systems Laboratory

Education

1970-74, Wagner College, B. S. Physics
1974-76, University of Toledo, M. S. Physics

HONORS/AWARDS

1974 - Sigma Pi Sigma
1976 - Sigma Xi
1980 - NASA Outstanding Performance Certificate
1981 - NASA Outstanding Performance Certificate
1985 - AAAS Scientific Photography Award First Place and Honorable Mention
1986 - NASA Special Achievement Award
1987 - NASA Outstanding Performance Certificate
1988 - NASA Special Service Award
1989 - NASA Quality Increase Award
1993 - NASA Special Act Award
1993 - LEP Peer Award
1996 - NASA Special Act Award
1999 - NASA Special Act Award
2002 - NASA Special Act Award
2005 - NASA Group Achievement Award

PROFESSIONAL Societies

American Astronomical Society

AAS - DPS (Division of Planetary Sciences)

AAS - DDA (Division of Dynamical Astronomy)

International Astronomical Union Working Group on Eclipses

American Geophysical Union

Sigma Pi Sigma

Sigma X

Professional Experience

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:Celestial Mechanics, Eclipses, Solar System Ephemerides. Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy. Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres. Stellar Photometry and Spectroscopy. Scientific Photography.

Appointments: Graduate Student, U. of Toledo. Scientific Analyst, Computer Sciences Corporation. NASA/ESA - IUE Spacecraft Operations.

Selected Publications

2006  Espenak, F., "Eclipses During 2007", 2007 Observer's Handbook of the Roy. Astron. Soc. Can. (in prep).

2006  Espenak, F. and J. Anderson, "Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 August 01", NASA Technical Publication (in Prep.).

2006  Espenak, F. and J. Meeus, "Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to 3000", NASA Technical Publication (in Prep.).

2005  F. Espenak, "Atlas and Catalog of Solar Eclipse Paths Through the Hawaiian Islands: 0001 CE - 1900 CE",Islands in the Sky by W.B. Masse, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, (in prep).

2005  Fast, K., Kostiuk,T., Espenak, F., Annen, J., Buhl, J., Hewagama, T., A'Hearn, M., Zipoy, D., Livengood, T., Sonnabend, G., and Schmulling, F., "Infrared Heterodyne Spectra I: Acquisition, Retrieval, and Anticorrelation with Water Vapor", Icarus (submitted).

2005  Espenak, F. and J. Anderson, "Total Eclipse of 2006", Sky and Telescope, 111, 1, (accepted).

2005  Espenak, F., "Eclipses During 2006", 2006 Observer's Handbook of the Roy. Astron. Soc. Can..

2005  Espenak, F. and Totten, P., "Corona Light", Astronomy, July, 72-75.

2004  Espenak, F., "The Hybrid Eclipse of 2005", Sky and Telescope , 108, 6, 46-47,.

2004  Espenak, F., "Eclipses During 2005", 2005 Observer's Handbook of the Roy. Astron. Soc. Can..

2004  Espenak, F. and J. Anderson, "Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29", NASA Technical Publication 2004-212762.

2004  Masse, W.B. and F. Espenak, "Sky as Environment: Solar Eclipses and Hohokam Cosmography",Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient Southwest, Edited by D. Doyel and J. Dean, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2004  Espenak, F. and J. Anderson, "Transit Details and Weather Prospects for 2004", Sky and Telescope , 107, 2, 52-53.

2003  Fast, K. E., T. Kostiuk, F. Espenak, T. A. Livengood, T. Hewagama, and M. F. A'Hearn, "Stratospheric ozone profiles from Mauna Kea, Hawai'i (19.8°N, 155.5°W) using infrared heterodyne spectroscopy, 1988-2003", GRL.

2003  Espenak, F., "The 2004 Transit of Venus", 2004 Observer's Handbook of the Roy. Astron. Soc. Can..

2003  Espenak, F., "Eclipses During 2004", 2004 Observer's Handbook of the Roy. Astron. Soc. Can..

2002  Espenak, F., "2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus", Proceedings for Scientific Frontiers in Reasearch on Extrasolar Planets, PASP (in press).

2002  Espenak, F. and J. Anderson, "Annular and Total Solar Eclipses of 2003", NASA Technical Publication 2002-211618.

2002  Espenak, F., "Eclipses During 2003", 2003 Observer's Handbook of the Roy. Astron. Soc. Can..

2002  Espenak, F., "Australia's 2002 Total Eclipse of the Sun", Mercury, 31, 2, 34-35.

2002  Espenak, F. and J. Anderson, "Eclipse 2002: Africa or Australia", Sky and Telescope , 103, 6, 32-37.

2002  Fast, K, Kostiuk, T., Romani, P., Espenak, F., Hewagama, T., A. Betz, Boreiko, R., and Livengood, T., "Temporal Behavior of Stratospheric Ammonia Abundance and Temperature Following the SL9 Impact", Icarus, 156, 485-497.