Dr. Joseph Harrington

Curriculum Vitae

PRESENT POSITION

Research Associate
Cornell University Astronomy Department
326 Space Sciences Building
Ithaca, NY 14853-6801

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
S.B., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Observational and computational studies of solar systems.

EXPERIENCE

2003-present - Lecturer, Astronomy 234, Astronomy Department, Cornell University
2000-present - Summer Lecturer, Astronomy 105/107, Astronomy Department, Cornell University
1997-present - Research Associate, Astronomy Department, Cornell University
1995-1997 - NAS/NRC Research Associate, NASA/GSFC
1988-1994 - Research and Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1992 - Visiting Graduate Student, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i
1986-1988 - Systems Development and Documentation, MIT Project Athena

HONORS

1988 - Sigma Pi Sigma

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

AAS - American Astronomical Society
DPS - AAS Division of Planetary Sciences
Sigma Pi Sigma

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Harrington, J., I. de Pater, S. Brecht, D. Deming, V. Meadows, P. Nicholson, and K. Zahnle 2002. Lessons from Shoemaker-Levy 9 about Jupiter and Planetary Impacts. To appear in Jupiter - The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. F. Bagenal, T. E. Dowling, W. McKinnon, eds. Cambridge University Press.
  2. Harrington, J., and D. Deming 2001. Models of the SL9 impacts I: Ballistic Monte-Carlo Plume. The Astrophysical Journal, 561, 455-467.
  3. Harrington, J., T. E. Dowling, and R. L. Baron 1996. Jupiter's Tropospheric Thermal Emission I: Observations and Techniques. Icarus 124, 22-31.
  4. Harrington, J., T. E. Dowling, and R. L. Baron 1996. Jupiter's Tropospheric Thermal Emission II: Power Spectrum Analysis and Wave Search. Icarus 124, 32-44.
  5. Harrington, J. 1995. Planetary Infrared Observations: the Occultation of 28 Sagittarii by Saturn and the Dynamics of Jupiter's Atmosphere. Ph.D. thesis in Planetary Science, MIT.
  6. Harrington, J, R. P. LeBeau, K. A. Backes, and T. E. Dowling 1994. Dynamic response of Jupiter's atmosphere to the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Nature 368, 525-527.
  7. Harrington, J., M. L. Cooke, W. J. Forrest, J. L. Pipher, E. W. Dunham, and J. L. Elliot 1993. IRTF Observations of the Occultation of 28 Sgr by Saturn. Icarus 103, 235-252.
  8. Baron, R. L., T. Owen, J. Connerney, T. Satoh, and J. Harrington 1996. Solar wind control of Jupiter's H3+ Auroras. Icarus 120, 437-442.
  9. Deming, D., and J. Harrington 2001. Models of the SL9 impacts II: Radiative-hydrodynamic Modeling of the Plume Splashback. The Astrophysical Journal, 561, 468-480.
  10. Dowling, T. E., A. S. Fischer, P. J. Gierasch, J. Harrington, R. P. LeBeau, and C. M. Santori 1997. The Explicit Planetary Isentropic-Coordinate (EPIC) Atmospheric Model.  Icarus 132, 221-238.
  11. French, R. G., P. D. Nicholson, M. L. Cooke, J. L. Elliot, K. Matthews, O. Perkovic, E. Tollestrup, P. Harvey, N. J. Chanover, M. A. Clark, E. W. Dunham, W. J. Forrest, J. Harrington, J. L. Pipher, A. Brahic, I. Grenier, F. Roques, and M. Arndt 1993. Geometry of the Saturn system from the 3 July 1989 occultation of 28 Sgr and Voyager observations. Icarus 103, 163-214.
  12. Hammel, H. B., R. F. Beebe, A. P. Ingersoll, G. S. Orton, J. R. Mills, A. A. Simon, P. Chodas, J. T. Clarke, E. De Jong, T. E. Dowling, J. Harrington, L. F. Huber, E. Karkoschka, C. M. Santori, A. Toigo, D. Yeomans, R. A. West 1995. HST Imaging of Atmospheric Phenomena Created by the Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Science 267, 1288-1296.
  13. Hammel, H. B., S. L. Lawson, J. Harrington, G. W. Lockwood, D. T. Thompson, and C. Swift 1992. An Atmospheric Outburst on Neptune from 1986 through 1989. Icarus 99, 363-367.
  14. Hubbard, W. B., C. C. Porco, D. M. Hunten, G. H. Rieke, M. J. Rieke, D. W. McCarthy, V. Haemmerle, J. Haller, B. McLeod, L. A. Lebofsky, R. Marcialis, J. B. Holberg, R. Landau, L. Carrasco, J. Elias, M. W. Buie, E. W. Dunham, S. E. Persson, T. Boroson, S. West, R. G. French, J. Harrington, J. L. Elliot, W. J. Forrest, J. L. Pipher, R. J. Stover, A. Brahic, and I. Grenier 1997. Structure of Saturn's Mesosphere from the 28 Sgr Occultations. Icarus 103, 404-425.
  15. Orton, G., M. A'Hearn, K. Baines, D. Deming, T. Dowling, J. Goguen, C. Griffith, H. Hammel, W. Hoffmann, D. Hunten, D. Jewitt, T. Kostiuk, S. Miller, K. Noll, K. Zahnle, N. Achilleos, A. Dayal, L. Deutsch, F. Espenak, P. Esterle, J. Friedson, K. Fast, J. Harrington, J. Hora, R. Joseph, D. Kelly, R. Knacke, J. Lacy, C. Lisse, J. Rayner, A. Sprague, M. Shure, K. Wells, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, D. Zipoy, G. Bjoraker, D. Buhl, W. Golisch, D. Griep, C. Kaminski, C. Arden, A. Chaikin, J. Goldstein, D. Gilmore, G. Fazio, T. Kanamori, H. Lam, T. Livengood, M.-M. Mac Low, M. Marley, T. Momary, D. Robertson, P. Romani, J. Spitale, M. Sykes, J. Tennyson, D. Wellnitz, S.-W. Ying 1995. Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter Observed by the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. Science 267, 1277-1282.
ASTRONOMICAL SOFTWARE

The following are freely available reference implementations of new computational techniques.

Jiggle: finds mosaic registrations automatically (C, with IDL/IRAF interfaces).
ftp://oobleck.astro.cornell.edu/pub/jiggle-2.1.tar.gz

Limbctr: finds planetary limbs automatically (C, with IDL/IRAF interfaces).
ftp://oobleck.astro.cornell.edu/pub/limbctr-1.1.tar.gz

Maskinterp: mask-based, non-linear bad pixel interpolator (IDL). Written by Siree Vatanavigkit and Alex Ruane under direction of JH.
ftp://oobleck.astro.cornell.edu/pub/maskinterp-1.2.tar.gz

Other useful software may be found at ftp://oobleck.astro.cornell.edu/pub/.

Last revised: 2003 March 4 - J. Harrington