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Name
  
Charles Kennel


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Education
  
Princeton University (1964)

Books
  
Convection and Substorms: Paradigms of Magnetospheric Phenomenology

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

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Charles F. Kennel (born 1939) is an American scientist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard College and a doctorate in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. In 1997 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics. In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.

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Career

Charles Kennel is a former Associate Administrator of NASA. He was the director of Mission to Planet Earth, a program during the Clinton Administration to perform a comprehensive survey and observation of our home planet. He was a member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Science Committee which he quit in 2006.

  • Ninth Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, from 1998 to 2006.
  • Member and chair of the NASA Advisory Council (1998–2006)
  • Chair of the National Academy of Science's Space Studies Board
  • In May 2009 Kennel was named a member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee an independent review requested by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 7, 2009.
  • In January 2014 Kennel was elected the inaugural Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

    • Works

  • Unstable growth of unducted whistlers propagating at an angle to the geomagnetic field - 1966 - Trieste : International Atomic Energy Agency, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • What we have learned from the magnetosphere - 1974 - Los Angeles, Calif. : Plasma Physics Group, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Matter in motion : the spirit and evolution of physics - 1977 - Charles F. Kennel and Ernest S. Abers - Boston : Allyn and Bacon
  • Convection And Substorms: Paradigms Of Magnetospheric Phenomenology - 1996 - Oxford University Press, Usa - ISBN 0-19-508529-9
  • The Climate Threat We Can Beat, in May/June 2012 Foreign Affairs with David G. Victor, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, and Kennel (website is paid while article is current)

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