jfwConsult Jürgen Watermann Owner and General Manager jfwconsult@orange.fr jfwconsult@free.fr

Research Interests

• Space weather : research to application
• Solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling
• External geomagnetic field and geomagnetic activity
• High-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics

Present Science Projects

• Space Weather: Scientific research and development of products and services (COST Action ES0803)
• Space Situational Awareness Space Weather Segment (SSA SWE), ESA project SN-I
• Advanced Thermosphere Modeling for Orbit Prediction (ATMOP), EU FP7 project "Space"
• Near-Earth Space Data Infrastructure for e-Science (ESPAS) EU FP7 project "Infrastructures"

Professional Appointments

• Core-group member and past Magnetometer Subgroup Chair, Cluster & Double Star Ground-Based Working Group
• Leader, Working Group 3 and member of the Steering Committee, COST Action 724 on the science of space weather
• Leader, Working Group 1 and member of the Steering Committee, COST Action ES0803 on space weather products and services
• Member of the Steering Committee, Project ICESTAR
• External expert, evaluation panel for the EU FP7 Marie Curie Actions
• Managing Guest Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 70(18)
• Guest Editor, Acta Geophysica 57(1)
• Editor and Editorial Advisor to the Editors-in-Chief, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Previous Research Fields

• Coherent and incoherent scatter radar measurements of the ionosphere
• High-latitude E-region plasma instabilities
• Magnetic variations of the midlatitude ionosphere (pulsations, impulses)
• Space plasma experiments with artificial electron beams
• Marine electromagnetics (natural and anthropogenic magnetic fields)
• Electromagnetic induction in the ground
• Search coil magnetometer design and development

Previous Science Projects

• Greenland coastal magnetometer array operated by the Atmosphere Space Research Division, Danish Meteorological Institute
• Ionospheric electric currents, in collaboration with the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Science Team, SPRL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Space Physics Research Group, Virginia Tech
• Incoherent scatter radar investigations of the polar ionosphere, in collaboration with SRI International ( Sondrestrom Research Facility)
• Interhemispheric conjugacy studies of the magnetosphere and ionosphere ( Project ICESTAR)
• Auroral Current and electrodynamic structure (ACES) sounding rocket program ( Project ACES)
• Ground-based magnetometer observations associated with ESA's Cluster-II satellite mission
• Greenland digisonde observations, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory
• Greenland ionospheric tomography experiment, in cooperation with the Center for Ionospheric Research (CIR), Applied Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin
• Radio studies of solar-terrestrial relationships, a topical theme of the radio science facility LOIS - LOFAR Outrigger in Scandinavia
• Geomagnetic Activity Forecast Service (GAFS), ESA Space Weather Applications Pilot Project
• COST Action 724 on the Science of Space Weather
• COST Action ES0803 on Space Weather Services and Products

Education

1984	Doctorate (Ph.D. equivalent) in Physics, University of Göttingen (Germany)
1976	Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Physics, University of Göttingen (Germany)

Positions Held

since 2010	Owner and General Manager	jfwConsult, Tourrettes, Var, France
2007 - 2009	Research Associate	Le Studium and LPC2E/CNRS, Orléans, France
1999 - 2007	Senior Research Scientist	Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993 - 1999	Principal Scientist	NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy
1989 - 1993	Research Physicist	SRI International, Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
1989	Visiting Scientist	Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
1986 - 1989	Research Associate	Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Ottawa, Canada
1984 - 1986	Research Associate	Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
1978 - 1984	Research and Teaching Associate	Geophysical Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany
1977 - 1978	Research Associate	Geophysical Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany

Teaching History

1978 - 1984	Assistant Lecturer	University of Göttingen, Germany	(Geophysics)
1973 - 1977	Teaching Assistant	University of Göttingen, Germany	(Theoretical Physics, Geophysics)

Publications

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