Charles Kennel

Charles F. Kennel ( born August 20, 1939 in Cambridge ( Massachusetts)) is an American physicist who is concerned with plasma physics, especially space plasmas, and environmental sciences.

Kennel studied astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard University (Bachelor 1959) and in 1964 received his doctorate at Princeton University. 1964 to 1967 he was a scientist in the Avco - Everett Research Laboratory, interrupted by a researcher at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP ) in Trieste 1965/66 as a National Science Foundation Fellow. In 1967 he became associate professor in 1971 and professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), where from 1983 to 1986 Executive Board of the physics faculty was. 1994 to 1996 he was director of the Mission to Planet Earth program of NASA (whose advisory board he was from 1998 to 2006, from 2001 to 2005 as its head and again from 2008) and turned to the Earth exploration satellite to. 1996 to 1998 he was Executive Vice Chancelor UCLA. 1998 to 2006 he was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus ( for Atmospheric Sciences ) today. He was also Vice Chancellor for Marine Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD ), where he founded a program and an Institute for Environment and Sustainability (Sustainability Solutions).

He was chairman of the California Council on Science and Technology and the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences (1977 to 1980) and the Pew Oceans Commission. He was from 2000 to 2003 a member of the Pew Oceans Commission.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the International Academy of Astronautics in 1991. In 1987 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics