NSM Faculty

Edgar Bering Professor Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1974 B.A., cum laude in Physics, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1967 Physics Department University of Houston Houston, Texas 77204-5005 Office: SR1-530D Phone: (713) 743-3543 eabering@uh.edu My Homepage

Research Interests

Participated in experiments to measure electron bremsstrahlung beneath auroras, electron bremsstrahlung accompanying both natural and triggered VLF events, auroral zone electric fields, plasmapause electric fields, electric fields at high altitude due to thunderstorms and sprites, and the electromagnetic radiation spectrum of lightning and sprites at high altitude, VLF magnetic fields accompanying active experiments in the ionosphere, dc plasma properties in the ionosphere near pulsating aurora, and electric fields near the magnetospheric cusp. Presently involved in the development of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) at the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - Johnson Space Center.

Selected Publications

Split Langmuir probe measurements of current density and electric field in an aurora, E. A. Bering, M.C. Kelley and F.S. Mozer, J. Geophys. Res., 78, 2201-2213 (1973).

Theory and operation of the split Langmuir probe, E.A. Bering, M.C. Kelley, F.S. Mozer and U.V. Fahleson, Planet. Space Sci., 21, 1983-2001 (1973).

Properties of the wake of small Langmuir probes and sounding rockets, E.A. Bering, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 37, 119-129 (1975).

A measurement of perpendicular current density in an aurora, E.A. Bering, and F.S. Mozer, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 3861-3872 (1975).

Observations of an intense thermal ion Birkeland current and associated intense narrow band electric field oscillations, E.A. Bering, M.C. Kelley, and F.S. Mozer, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 4612-4620 (1975).

Evidence that the electrostatic ion cyclotron instability is saturated by ion heating," M.C. Kelley, E.A. Bering, and F.S. Mozer, Phys. Fluids, 18, 1590-1597 (1975).

Investigation of the electric field below 80 km from a parachute deployed payload, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 1925-1932 (1977).

Correlative effects of VLF chorus activity and electron precipitation near the plasmapause, H. Leverenz, J.L. Roeder, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, and J. Lavergnat, J. Geomag. Geoelec., 30, 357-358 (1978).

Some aspects of the interrelationship of magnetospheric substorm-associated particle precipitation and thunderstorm electric fields, E.A. Bering, T.J. Rosenberg, D. Detrick, J.R. Benbrook, D.L. Matthews and W.R. Sheldon, J. Geomag. Geoelec., 30, 359-360 (1978).

On the relationship of ~3 mHz (Pc5) electric, magnetic, and particle variations, C. G. Maclennan, L.J. Lanzerotti, A. Hasegawa, E.A. Bering, J.R. Benbrook, W.R. Sheldon, T.J. Rosenberg and D.L. Matthews, Geophysical Research Letters, 5, 403-406 (1978).

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