[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXX, Issue 58

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXX, Issue 58
Oct.28,2023

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Table of Contents

1. Obituary: Dr. J. Bernard Blake

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Obituary: Dr. J. Bernard Blake

From: George Paulikas, Dan Baker, Joe Fennell, Mary Hudson, Lou Lanzerotti, Janet Luhmann, Geoff Reeves, Harlan Spence (maryk at dartmouth.edu)

Dr J. Bernard Blake, a pioneer in space research, passed away on 21 October 2023. During his more than 60-year career as a space scientist at the Aerospace Corporation, he was a pioneer and leader in the studies of the radiation belts that surround the Earth as well as studies of cosmic ray physics and nuclear astrophysics. 

Dr. Blake (Bern) was a skillful experimentalist and a skilled designer of complex instrumentation that flew into orbit aboard innumerable Air Force, NASA and ESA satellites near the Earth and as far away as the Moon. He was skilled in the interpretation of the data these instruments returned and was the author or contributor to more than 1400 scientific publications and presentations at scientific conferences at home and abroad.  For his many noteworthy scientific contributions he was recognized as both an APS and AGU Fellow. His energetic particle instrumentation development, from the ATS-1 era to the NASA Van Allen Probes, Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission and recent cubesats, led to improved designs of commercial and national security space systems over the ensuing decades. He was the inspiration and mentor to generations of space scientists and engineers who will now carry on his legacy.

Submitted by: George Paulikas, Dan Baker, Joe Fennell, Mary Hudson, Lou Lanzerotti, Janet Luhmann, Geoff Reeves and Harlan Spence


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