Louis Lanzerotti
Louis Lanzerotti
Distinguished Research Profess, Ctr for Solar-Terrestrial Research
101 Tiernan Hall (TIER)
About Me
Louis J. Lanzerotti was born and grew up in Carlinville, Illinois. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, he joined the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1965. He retired in 2002 and remained a consultant to Alcatel-Lucent through 2008. In 2002, he was appointed a Distinguished Research Professor of Physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. He has also served as an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of Florida and as a Regents' Lecturer at UCLA.
Lanzerotti has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on several United States NASA interplanetary and planetary missions including ATS-1&3, IMP-4&5, Voyager 1&2, Ulysses, Galileo Orbiter and Entry Probe, and Cassini. Currently, he is a Principal Investigator with instruments on each of the two spacecraft in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission launched August 2012. He has also conducted geophysical research in the Antarctic and the Arctic beginning in the 1970s, directed largely toward understanding of Earth's upper atmosphere and space environments.
He has co-authored two books, co-edited eight books, and is an author of more than 500 refereed engineering and science papers. He is founding editor for Space Weather, The International Journal of Research and Applications, published by the American Geophysical Union.He has eight patents issued.
Lanzerotti has also served as a member or chair of numerous committees of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies. His service in the NRC includes chair of the Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unattended Acceleration; chair of the Committee to Assess the Safety and Security of Spent Nuclear Fuel; chair of the Committee on Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope; chair, Space Studies Board; chair, Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board; chair, Decadal Survey of Solar and Space Physics. He served on the NASA Advisory Council 1988-1994. He served on the Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board, 1990-1992. He served as Vice President of COSPAR 1994-2002. He was Chair for more than a decade of the Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Germany. He served 2007-2015 as Chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and as Chair of the Board of Managers of AIP Publishing. He currently is serving on the Board of Trustees of the University Space Research Association (USRA).
He has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1988) and of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA; 1987). He is the recipient of the 2017 NAE Arthur M. Bueche Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the recipient of two NASA Distinguished Public Service Medals, the NASA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal, the AGU William Bowie Medal (2011; the highest award of the AGU), the 2004 COSPAR William Nordberg Medal, the 2012 IAA Basic Science Award, a 2012 Innovators Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, the 2014 Space Weather Award from the American Meteorological Society, the 2016 AGU William Kaula Award, the 2018 NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2020 AIAA Van Allen Space Environments Award, and the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States. Minor Planet 5504 Lanzerotti recognizes his space and planetary research, and Mount Lanzerotti (74.50° S, 70.33° W) recognizes his research in the Antarctic.
In 1982-1990, Lanzerotti was elected to three consecutive 3-year terms on his local (Harding Township, New Jersey) school board, and served as chair of the Curriculum Committee (8 years) and vice president (5 years). He served seven terms 1993-2014 as an elected member of the Township's governing body (Township Committee), and served as the Township's Mayor in 2007-2009 and 2013. He was named co-recipient of the 2019 Hesna Pfeiffer Award from the Harding Township Civic Association.
He was nominated in 2004 by President George W. Bush to a six-year term on the National Science Board and chaired its Committee on Science and Engineering Indicators 2006-2010.
Lanzerotti has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on several United States NASA interplanetary and planetary missions including ATS-1&3, IMP-4&5, Voyager 1&2, Ulysses, Galileo Orbiter and Entry Probe, and Cassini. Currently, he is a Principal Investigator with instruments on each of the two spacecraft in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission launched August 2012. He has also conducted geophysical research in the Antarctic and the Arctic beginning in the 1970s, directed largely toward understanding of Earth's upper atmosphere and space environments.
He has co-authored two books, co-edited eight books, and is an author of more than 500 refereed engineering and science papers. He is founding editor for Space Weather, The International Journal of Research and Applications, published by the American Geophysical Union.He has eight patents issued.
Lanzerotti has also served as a member or chair of numerous committees of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies. His service in the NRC includes chair of the Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unattended Acceleration; chair of the Committee to Assess the Safety and Security of Spent Nuclear Fuel; chair of the Committee on Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope; chair, Space Studies Board; chair, Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board; chair, Decadal Survey of Solar and Space Physics. He served on the NASA Advisory Council 1988-1994. He served on the Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board, 1990-1992. He served as Vice President of COSPAR 1994-2002. He was Chair for more than a decade of the Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Germany. He served 2007-2015 as Chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and as Chair of the Board of Managers of AIP Publishing. He currently is serving on the Board of Trustees of the University Space Research Association (USRA).
He has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1988) and of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA; 1987). He is the recipient of the 2017 NAE Arthur M. Bueche Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the recipient of two NASA Distinguished Public Service Medals, the NASA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal, the AGU William Bowie Medal (2011; the highest award of the AGU), the 2004 COSPAR William Nordberg Medal, the 2012 IAA Basic Science Award, a 2012 Innovators Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, the 2014 Space Weather Award from the American Meteorological Society, the 2016 AGU William Kaula Award, the 2018 NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2020 AIAA Van Allen Space Environments Award, and the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States. Minor Planet 5504 Lanzerotti recognizes his space and planetary research, and Mount Lanzerotti (74.50° S, 70.33° W) recognizes his research in the Antarctic.
In 1982-1990, Lanzerotti was elected to three consecutive 3-year terms on his local (Harding Township, New Jersey) school board, and served as chair of the Curriculum Committee (8 years) and vice president (5 years). He served seven terms 1993-2014 as an elected member of the Township's governing body (Township Committee), and served as the Township's Mayor in 2007-2009 and 2013. He was named co-recipient of the 2019 Hesna Pfeiffer Award from the Harding Township Civic Association.
He was nominated in 2004 by President George W. Bush to a six-year term on the National Science Board and chaired its Committee on Science and Engineering Indicators 2006-2010.
Education
Ph.D.; Harvard University, ; Physics; 1965
M.A.; Harvard University, ; Physics; 1963
B.S.; University of Illinois; Engineering Physics; 1960
M.A.; Harvard University, ; Physics; 1963
B.S.; University of Illinois; Engineering Physics; 1960
Research Interests
His principal research interests have included space plasmas, geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impacts of atmospheric and space processes and the space environment on space and terrestrial technologies. Much of his research has involved close collaborations with telecommunications service providers on commercial satellite and long-haul (principally transoceanic) cables. His research has also involved geomagnetism, solid earth geophysics, and some oceanography. This research has been applied to design and operations of systems associated with spacecraft and cable operations.
Conference Proceeding
“Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope”
July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023.
“Strategy of Insertion of Merge Features in a Sea of Wires SADP Integration”
August 2018.
“Planarity considerations in SADP for advanced BEOL patterning”
July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017.
“Precleans challenges on middle-of-the-line contacts for 14nm technologies and beyond”
June 2016.
“High performance 14nm SOI FinFET CMOS technology with 0.0174μm2 embedded DRAM and 15 levels of Cu metallization”
February 2015.
“Sam Williamson retires as Federal Coordinator for Meteorology”
January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015.
July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023.
“Strategy of Insertion of Merge Features in a Sea of Wires SADP Integration”
August 2018.
“Planarity considerations in SADP for advanced BEOL patterning”
July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017.
“Precleans challenges on middle-of-the-line contacts for 14nm technologies and beyond”
June 2016.
“High performance 14nm SOI FinFET CMOS technology with 0.0174μm2 embedded DRAM and 15 levels of Cu metallization”
February 2015.
“Sam Williamson retires as Federal Coordinator for Meteorology”
January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015.
Journal Article
Hyomin Kim, Q. Schiller, M. Engebretson, N. Noh, I. Kuzichev, Louis J Lanzerotti, Andrew J. Gerrard, K.-H. Kim, M. Lessard, H. Spence, D.-Y. Lee, J. Matzka, T. Fromm. 2021. “Observations of Particle Loss due to Injection-Associated EMIC Waves.” Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, vol. 125.
Matthew Cooper, Andrew J. Gerrard, Louis J Lanzerotti, A. Soto-Chavez, Hyomin Kim, I. Kuzichev, Lindsay V Goodwin. 2020. “Mirror instabilities in the inner magnetosphere and their potential for localized ULF wave generation.” Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, vol. 125.
K. Yamamoto, M. Nosé, K. Keika, D. P. Hartley, C. W. Smith, R. J. MacDowall, Louis J Lanzerotti, D. G. Mitchell, H. E. Spence, G. D. Reeves, J. R. Wygant, J. W. Bonnell, S. Oimatsu. 2019. “Eastward Propagating Second Harmonic Poloidal Waves Triggered by Temporary Outward Gradient of Proton Phase Space Density: Van Allen Probe A Observation.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 124, no. 12, pp. 9904-9923.
Stamatios M. Krimigis, Robert B. Decker, Edmond C. Roelof, Matthew E. Hill, Carl O. Bostrom, Konstantinos Dialynas, George Gloeckler, Douglas C. Hamilton, Edward P. Keath, Louis J Lanzerotti. 2019. “Energetic charged particle measurements from Voyager 2 at the heliopause and beyond.” Nature Astronomy, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 997-1006.
K. Mitani, K. Seki, K. Keika, M. Gkioulidou, Louis J Lanzerotti, D. G. Mitchell, C. A. Kletzing, A. Yoshikawa, Y. Obana. 2019. “Statistical Study of Selective Oxygen Increase in High-Energy Ring Current Ions During Magnetic Storms.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 124, no. 5, pp. 3193-3209.
Matthew Cooper, Andrew J. Gerrard, Louis J Lanzerotti, A. Soto-Chavez, Hyomin Kim, I. Kuzichev, Lindsay V Goodwin. 2020. “Mirror instabilities in the inner magnetosphere and their potential for localized ULF wave generation.” Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, vol. 125.
K. Yamamoto, M. Nosé, K. Keika, D. P. Hartley, C. W. Smith, R. J. MacDowall, Louis J Lanzerotti, D. G. Mitchell, H. E. Spence, G. D. Reeves, J. R. Wygant, J. W. Bonnell, S. Oimatsu. 2019. “Eastward Propagating Second Harmonic Poloidal Waves Triggered by Temporary Outward Gradient of Proton Phase Space Density: Van Allen Probe A Observation.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 124, no. 12, pp. 9904-9923.
Stamatios M. Krimigis, Robert B. Decker, Edmond C. Roelof, Matthew E. Hill, Carl O. Bostrom, Konstantinos Dialynas, George Gloeckler, Douglas C. Hamilton, Edward P. Keath, Louis J Lanzerotti. 2019. “Energetic charged particle measurements from Voyager 2 at the heliopause and beyond.” Nature Astronomy, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 997-1006.
K. Mitani, K. Seki, K. Keika, M. Gkioulidou, Louis J Lanzerotti, D. G. Mitchell, C. A. Kletzing, A. Yoshikawa, Y. Obana. 2019. “Statistical Study of Selective Oxygen Increase in High-Energy Ring Current Ions During Magnetic Storms.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 124, no. 5, pp. 3193-3209.
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Other
“Space Research and Space Weather: Some Personal Vignettes 1965 to Early 1980s”
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, June 2019.
“International Geophysical Year: Space Weather Impacts in February 1958”
Space Weather, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018.
“Anthropogenic Space Weather”
Space Science Reviews, November 2017.
“Space Weather: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”
Space Science Reviews, November 2017.
“Space weather research: Earth's radiation belts”
Space Weather, June 2017.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, June 2019.
“International Geophysical Year: Space Weather Impacts in February 1958”
Space Weather, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018.
“Anthropogenic Space Weather”
Space Science Reviews, November 2017.
“Space Weather: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”
Space Science Reviews, November 2017.
“Space weather research: Earth's radiation belts”
Space Weather, June 2017.
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