Charles Kennel

Charles F. Kennel (born in 1939) is an American scientist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1] Kennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard College and a doctorate in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University.^[2] He was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.^[3]

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^[4]

• Ninth Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography^[5]
• 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^[6]

• 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.

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 0195085299

References

1. ^ CCST Fellow Charles F. Kennel
2. ^ Biobytes: Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography The San Diego Union-Tribune
3. ^ The Force Is Strong With This One NASA Watch January 9, 2009
4. ^ More names mentioned for NASA post MSNBC By Brian Berger and Becky Iannotta
5. ^ Q&A with Charles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
6. ^ Obama wants scientist at NASA, sources say SmartBrief

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Name	Kennel, Charles
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Short description	American scientist
Date of birth	1939
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