Barry Mauk

Dr. Barry H. Mauk received his PhD from the University of Califoria at San Diego in 1978.  He work as a Post Doctoral Fellow and then Research Associate a the Univerity of Washington in Seattle on an Auroral X-ray imaging program from 1978-1981.  He has been at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 1982.  He was Section Supervisor of about ten PhD scientists between 1999 and 2007, and a Group Supervisor for about 25-30 PhD scientists from 2007-2014. He has since stepped down to concentrate on ongoing NASA flight programs and science.  He has been  studying planetary space environments, or planetary magnetospheres, since the early 1970’s, beginning with the Earth’s magnetosphere, and then branching out into the magnetosphere’s of the gas giant magnetospheres when he joined the Voyager program in the mid 1980’s.  He has since concentrated his efforts of the physics of the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) through his involvement with the Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini programs, and now NASA's Juno program; and by means of funding received through NASA’s Space Research and Technology Grant Program (SR&T).  Recent achievements include the discovery of a massive gas torus associated with Jupiter’s enigmatic moon Euorpa, the discovery of Earth-like energetic particle injections at Jupiter and Saturn that give rise to transients within the northern and southern lights, the identification of key similarities and differences in the processes that control the electron radiation belts and energetic ion populations of all of the strongly magnetized planets of the solar system, and the discovery of key differences between the processes that generate aurora at Jupiter and Earth. . His interests have recently shifted back to Earth’s magnetosphere, specifically reconnection processes, with his involvement as the lead investigator for energetic particles on NASA’s MMS mission.  He is actively involved with one other active NASA flight program,  as lead investigator for an energetic particle instrument on the Juno mission, now orbiting Jupiter. He Dr.. His major program involvements, past and present, include the following:

Co-Investigator, Voyager Low Energy Charged Particle Investigation

Team Member, Galileo Energetic Particle Detector Investigation

Principal Investigator for the ENA Camera for EOS (Cancelled after Phase B)

Project Scientist for Nuclear Electric Propulsion Space Test Program (Cancelled after Phase B)

Co-Investigator, Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument Investigation

Project Scientist for NASA’s TIMED Project for the Phase B development,

Lead Investigator for Energetic Particle Detector; Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

Lead Investigator for Juno Energetic Particle Detector Instrument for Jupiter

Project Scientist for NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission for the development and prime mission.