C. Wendell Horton, Jr.

Principal Investigator; Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin

Recent scientific publications of relevance to the project

I - CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: C. Wendell Horton, Jr.

Born:  February 3, 1942 in Houston, Texas

Citizenship:  United States

Married, two children

Education: B.S., Physics, University of Texas at Austin (1963); M.S., Physics, University of California, San Diego (1965); Ph.D., Physics, University of California, San Diego (1967)

Positions held: Visiting Scientist, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1965-66); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (1967-69); Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin (1969-1977); Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin (1977-present); Research Scientist, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1980-present).

Other positions held: Adjunct Professor, Department of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas (1992-present); Associate Editor, Physics of Fluids (1987-1989); Correspondent, Comments on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (1992-2001)

Honors: Fellow, American Physical Society (1983); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1975-77); author/editor of six books; published 240 papers in refereed journals, including several large review papers (see www.ph.utexas.edu/dept/research/horton/)

Areas of expertise: Theory and simulations of drift wave turbulence and anomalous transport in plasmas; nonlinear dynamics and chaos; magnetospheric and ionospheric physics; solar physics; plasma astrophysics

II –  Recent scientific publications of relevance to the project:

1. W. Horton, R. Weigel, and J. Clint Sprott, Chaos and the limits of predictability for the solar-wind driven magnetosphere-ionosphere system, Phys. Plasmas 8, 1070(2001).

2. W. Horton and I. Doxas, A low-dimensional energy conserving state space model for substorm dynamics, J. Geophys. Res. 101A, 27,223--27,237(1996).

3. W. Horton, H. Vernon Wong, R. Weigel, and I. Doxas, Interchange trigger for substorms in a nonlinear dynamics model, Phys. Space Plasmas 15, 169-174(1998).

4. W.  Horton, H. V. Wong, J. W. Van Dam, and C. Crabtree, Stability Properties of High-Pressure Geotail Flux Tubes, J. Geophys. Research 106, 18803-188222,(2002).

5. H. V. Wong, W. Horton, J. W. Van Dam and C. Crabtree, Low Frequency Stability of Geotail, Plasma, Phys. of Plasmas, 8, 2415-2424 (2001)