Dr. Peter Wasilewski

Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, Code 691
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Phone: (301) 286-8317

email: Peter.Wasilewski@gsfc.nasa.gov

Present Position:

Astrophysicist
Astrochemistry Branch
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Research Area Experience:

Rock Magnetism, Planetary Magnetism, Paleomagnetism.

Education:

B. S., 1962, George Washington University, Washington D. C.
M.S., 1965, George Washington University, Washington D. C.
D.Sc., 1969, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Previous Positions:

1973 - 1974 Research Associate, University of Maryland
1971 - 1973 Research Associate, George Washington University
1970 - 1971 Research Associate, U. S. Geological Survey

Honors, Awards, and Projects:

Editor, Tectonophysics Special Issue - Magnetic Anomalies: Land andSea, 1991.

Invited Participant, NATO Advanced Study institute - Continental Crustal Sections, 1989.

Invited Lecturer, Oxide minerals short course - Sponsored by American Mineralogical Society and American Geophysical Union, 1991.

Invited Participant, National Geomagnetic Initiative, Lithosphere Magnetic Fields Group, 1992.

Keynote Lecture, Maryland Association of Science Teachers (MAST), November 1991.

Invited Speaker, 150th Anniversary of Indian Geomagnetic Institute, Bombay India, November 1991 (Declined because I was in Antarctica).

Co Investigator, Mars Observer magnetometer team.

Collaboration, Peshawar University and University of Utah on Karakorum highway and Swat River transacts, 1988.

Antarctic Traverse 1961-62; Ellsworth Nunatak Party 1965-66;

25th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition 1983-84;

Antarctic Search for Meteorites, 1987-88, 1990-91, 1991-92;

NASA Community Service Award, 1992.

Selected Publications:

"The magnetic anistropy of the gneissic rocks from Skarvsnes area, East Antarctica", M. Nakai, M. Funaki, and P. J. Wasilewski, Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Geosci. 1993, 6, 37-46.

"A TEM Study of the Relationships Between the Microstructures and Magnetic Properties of Strongly Magnetized Magnetite and Maghemite", J. Banfield and P. J. Wasilewski, Amer. Mineralogist 1994, 69, 654-667.

"Magnetically Enhanced Coagulation of Very Small Iron Grains", J. A. Nuth, III, O. Berg, J. L. Faris and P. J. Wasilewski, Icarus 1994, 107, 155-163.

"The Xenolith Record: Insights into the Magnetic Lithosphere", P. J. Wasilewski and R. D. Warner, in Magnetism: Rocks to Superconductors, K. V. Subbarao ed., Geol. Soc. India, 1994, Memoir 29, 65-80.

"Magnetic Properties of Bjurbole Chondrules", P. J. Wasilewski, T. L. Dickinson, D. F. Nava, and M. V. O'Bryan, LPS XXVI 1995, 1467-1468.

"Magnetic Petrology of Lower Crust and Upper Mantle Xenoliths from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica", R. D. Warner and P. J. Wasilewski, Tectonophy. 1995, 69-92.

"Magnetic Petrology of Arc Xenoliths from Japan and Aleutian Islands", R. D. Warner, P. J. Wasilewski, J. Geophys. Res. 1997, 102, 20,225-20,243.

"The Role of Magnetic Contamination in Meteorites", P. J. Wasilewski, and T. L. Dickinson, submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science, July 1997.

"Shock Magnetism in FIne Particle Iron", T. L. Dickinson, and P. J. Wasilewski, submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science, July 1997.

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