Dr. Kevin R. Boyce NASA/GSFC, Code 662 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-3036 FAX: (301) 286-1684 E-mail:Kevin.R.Boyce@gsfc.nasa.gov

Bio

Growing up at Lowell Observatory, Dr. Boyce was exposed to the outdoors, the night sky, and tarantulas, all of which affected his later life to various degrees. He went to school in New Jersey and Cambridge (see below), in between which he designed oceanographic instrumentation under the tutelage of Win Hill at the late lamented Sea Data Corp.

In 1992 he came to Goddard as an electronics engineer. In 1997 he was magically converted to an astrophysicist, and moved down the hall to be nearer the other scientists. Despite his previous experience with oceanography, he was disappointed when Astro-E plunged into the Pacific minutes after launch.

He is learning about the joys of low-cost web hosting at his personal web site. And he hardly ever writes about himself in the third person.

Current position:

Astrophysicist, X-Ray Astrophysics Branch, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics

Previous positions at GSFC:

Electronics Engineer, Instrument Development Branch, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics

Education:

B.S. (high honors), Physics, Princeton University, 1983
Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

Current projects:

• 1996-present: Web master for LHEA XRS site. Also local self-appointed HTML language lawyer, browbeating people into writing web pages The Right Way.
• 1994-present: Astro-E XRS instrument: software lead engineer for Calorimeter Digital Processor (CDP). Astro-E is gone, but we are building the engineering model parts into a system to do some atomic physics with the EBIT at LLNL.

Previous projects:

• 1992-1995: X-Ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) sounding rocket Ground Support Equipment (GSE) software development
• 1993-1998: Digital Overseer and Go-between for Kuiper Airborne Observatory (DOGKAO) software and hardware development.

Other places I've worked:

• 1993-1997 -- Electronics Engineer, NASA/GSFC
• 1983-1986 -- All-around engineer, Sea Data Corp., Newton, Massachusetts
• 1980-1981 -- Summer programmer, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ

Selected publications:

1. "Characterization of a Submillimeter High Angular Resolution Camera Using a Monolithic Silicon Bolometer Array for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory," Wang, Ning, Hunter, T.R., Benford, D.J., Serabyn, E., Lis, D.C., Phillips, T.G., Moseley, S.H., Boyce, K., Szymkowiak, A., Allen, C., Mott, B., Gygax, J., 1996, Applied Optics, 34, 6629
2. "A GSE in an Igor XOP", Boyce, Kevin R., presented at eSEAM '97.
3. "Accurate Atomic Masses for Fundamental Metrology," DiFilippo, Frank, Natarajan, Vasant, Boyce, Kevin R., Pritchard, David E., 1994, Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, 1481
4. "Precision Penning Trap Comparison of Nondoublets: Atomic Masses of H, D, and the Neutron," Natarajan, Vasant, Boyce, Kevin R., DiFilippo, Frank, Pritchard, David E., 1993, Phys. Rev. Lett., 71, 1998
5. "Two Ions in a Penning trap: Implications for precision mass spectroscopy," Cornell, Eric A., Boyce, Kevin R., Fygenson, Deborah L.K., Pritchard, David E., 1992, Phys. Rev. A, 45, 3049
6. "Mode Coupling in a Penning trap: pi pulses and a classical avoided crossing," Cornell, Eric A., Weisskoff, Robert M., Boyce, Kevin R., Pritchard, David E., 1990, Phys. Rev. A, 41, 312
7. "Single-Ion Cyclotron Resonance Measurement of M(CO+) / M(N2+)," Cornell, Eric A., Weisskoff, Robert M., Boyce, Kevin R., Flanagan, Robert W. Jr., Lafyatis, Gregory P., Pritchard, David E., 1989, Phys. Rev. Lett., 63, 1674
8. "Multichannel Demodulator for NuBus," Boyce, Kevin R., Szymkowiak, Andrew E., Baker, Robert G., presented at Scientific and Engineering Applications of the Macintosh '95

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