User:Michael Ronayne/Biography

EDUCATION:
 * Doane College, Crete Nebraska, 1949 (Freshman Year).
 * BS, U.S. Naval Academy, 1953.
 * PhD (Astro-geophysics), University of Colorado, 1962.

CAREER HISTORY: Note: Assistance is required to fill in the missing employment dates from 1986 to 2003.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:


 * Earth System Science.
 * Solar Physics.
 * History of the Sun and of Climate.
 * History of Astronomy.
 * Archaeo-astronomy.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES AND ELECTED OFFICES:


 * U.S. Committee on Global Change, National Academy of Sciences, 1987-Present.
 * Chairman, Panel on Climate and Global Change, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1988-Present.
 * Scientific Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), International Council of Scientific Unions, 1987-Present.
 * Co-Chairman, IGBP Core Project on Past Global Changes, 1990 -Present.
 * President, Commission 41 (History of Astronomy), International Astronomical Union, 1985-1988.
 * U.S. Advisory Committee for the International Council of Scientific Unions, National Academy of Sciences, 1985-1990.
 * Science and Engineering Panel, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1986-1988,
 * Advisory Committee, Division of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation, 1986-1988.
 * Chairman, American Meteorological Society Committee on Global Change, 1986-1988.
 * Chairman, U.S. Committee for an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, National Research Council, 1984-1987.
 * Ad Hoc Committee for a Global Change Program, International Council of Scientific Unions, 1984-1987.
 * Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate, National Academy of Sciences, 1983-1986.
 * Geosciences Research Council, U.S. Department of Energy, 1986-1987.
 * Panel of Judges, American Association for the Advancement of Science Writing Awards or National Newspapers and Magazines, 1977-1987.
 * Associate Editor, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, American Geophysical Union, 1986-1988.
 * Associate Editor of the journal Climatic Change, 1976-present.
 * Consulting Editor for the journal Archaeoastronomy, 1980-present.
 * Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Climate Dynamics, 1988-present.
 * Chairman, Study Committee on "Sun, Weather, and Climate" for the National Academy of Sciences, 1978-1982.
 * U.S. Chairman, Working Group on Solar Influences on Climate, US/USSR Treaty for the Protection of the Environment, 1979-1985.
 * Chairman, Arecibo Advisory Board and Visiting Committee, 1979-1983,
 * Chairman, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society, 1981-1983.
 * Chairman, Panel of Judges, American Institute of Physics/U.S. Steel Science Writing Awards for Journalists, 1980-1984.
 * Board of Directors, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1978-1981.
 * Committee on History of Astronomy, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1982-1988.
 * Committee on Solar Terrestrial Research of National Academy of Sciences, 1978-1980.
 * Study Panel on Solar Terrestrial Research in the 1980's, for the National
 * Academy of Sciences, Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research. Chairman of Solar Physics Group, 1979-1980.
 * Study Panel on Atmospheric Sciences in the 1980's, National Academy of Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences Committee. Chairman Solar-Terrestrial Group, 1978.
 * Advisory Committee to the Administrator of NASA on "New Directions for Future Space Research". Chairman of the Solar-Terrestrial Group, 1980.
 * NASA Study Group on a Solar Beacon Spacecraft, 1979-1982.
 * NASA Advisory Group on Evolution of Complex Life, 1981-1983.
 * NASA Study Committee for a solar-Terrestrial Observatory, 1979-1982.
 * Committeeman, Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society 1974-1975.
 * Consultant to the Hayden Planetarium, New York City; the Hansen Planetarium, Salt Lake City; and the Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, Colorado.

HONORS:


 * Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988.
 * Arctowski Medal in Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, National Academy of Sciences, 1987
 * Visiting Scientist, University of Durham, England, 1985, 1987.
 * James Arthur Prize Lecture in Solar and Solar Terrestrial Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1983.
 * Research Fellow, National Geographic Society, 1975-1976.
 * NCAR Award for Outstanding Performance in New Technology, 1973.
 * Sigma Xi-RESA Boulder Scientist Award, 1965.
 * National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1962-1963.

SOCIETIES:


 * American Astronomical Society, Solar Physics Division and History of Astronomy Division.
 * American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 * International Astronomical Union.
 * Sigma Xi.
 * American Geophysical Union.
 * Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:


 * Professor Adjoint, University of Colorado, 1977-1984.
 * Graduate and undergraduate courses taught at the University of Colorado: Solar Physics, Infrared Astronomy, Observational Astronomy, Introductory Astronomy, Physical Science, Astroarchaeology, Atmospheric Optics.

BOOKS:


 * A New Sun (The Solar Results from Skylab) NASA SP-402, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. 198 pp.
 * The New Solar Physics (Editor) Westview Press. 1978, 214 pp, ISBN-10: 0891584447.
 * The Ancient Sun (Co-Editor, with R.O. Pepin and R.B. Merrill) Pergamon Press, 1980, 581 pp, ISBN-10: 0080263240.
 * Mapping the Sky (Co-Editor, with S. DeBarbat, H.K. Eichhom and A.R. Upgren) Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, 512 pp, ISBN-10: 9027728097.