DONALD L. MICKEY: VITA
Education
- 1964, Harvard University, A.B.cum laude in Physics
- 1968, Princeton University, Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences
Appointments
- Research Associate, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, November 1967-June 1968
- Research Associate, Princeton Observatory, July 1968-February 1969
- Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, March 1969-July 1970
- Assistant Astronomer, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, August 1970-1974
- Associate Astronomer, 1974-1982
- Associate Specialist, 1982-1992
- Specialist, 1992-present
Research Interests
Dr. Mickey has been associated with the solar physics research group at the Institute for Astronomy since 1970. His interests are primarily in the area of instrument development for spectroscopic and polarimetric observations. He is responsible for bringing the Haleakala Stokes Polarimeter from its original configuration as a filter instrument to its present state as an important source of solar vector magnetic field data, adding a fiber-coupled grating spectrograph, array detectors and a new computer control system. He designed modifications to the Mees Solar Observatory coudé spectrograph which enable image stabilization, a CCD camera and control system, and image scanning. He has designed and built the Imaging Vector Magnetograph at Mees Observatory, an instrument which includes a 28-cm Cassegrain telescope, a liquid-crystal polarization modulator and a Fabry-Perot imaging monochromator, together with a pair of fast CCD cameras, a sunspot tracker and a sophisticated computer control system. He is currently working on a real-time wavefront sensor for solar astronomy applications, new polarimeter designs, and ways of using very high-speed cameras in spectropolarimetric observations. His observational work has included observations of coronal emission line polarization, spectroscopic detection of coronal holes, and measurement of solar vector magnetic fields.
Publications
A list of publications is available.
Don Mickey (mickey@ifa.hawaii.edu)
Last modified: 1996 January 12