KEITH RAMBO
Director of Finance & Administration

 

Education:

BSEE, University of Florida, 1978

Contact Information:

Email: rambo@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-0912
Office: 216 Larsen Hall

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Electronics, Electromagnetics & Energy Systems
Lab:   Microelectronics Laboratory

Fields of Interest:

• Lightning processes
• IC technology and manufacturing

Employment:

2003 - Director of Finance and Administration, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2006
V. Jayakumar, V. A. Rakov, M. Miki, M. A. Uman, G. H. Schnetzer, and K. Rambo, "Estimation of input energy in rocket-triggered lightning," J. Geophysical Res. Lett., 33, L05702, doi:10.1029/2005GL025141, 2006

R. C. Olsen III, V. A. Rakov, D. . Jordan, J. Jerauld, M. A. Uman and K. J. Rambo, "Leader/return-stroke-like processes in the initial stage of rocket-triggered lightning," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 11,D13202, doi:10.1029/2005JD006790, 2006.

2005
V. A. Rakov, V. Kodali, D. E. Crawford, J. Schoene, M. A. Uman, K. J. Rambo, and G. H. Schnetzer, "Close electric field signatures of dart leader/return stroke sequences in rocket-triggered lightning showing residual fields," J. Geophys. Res., 110, D07205, doi:10.1029/2004JD005417, 2005

B. E. Jones, K. S. Jones, K. J. Rambo, V. A. Rakov, J. Jerauld, and M. A. Uman, "Oxide reduction during triggered-lightning fulgurite formation," J. Atmos. Solar-Ter. Phys., 67, 423-428, 2005

V. Kodali, V. A. Rakov, M. A. Uman, K. J. Rambo, G. H. Schnetzer, and J. Schoene, "Triggered-lightning properties inferred from measured currents and have very close electric fields," J. Atmos. Res., doi:101016/j.atmosres.2004.11.036, 2005

J. Jerauld, M.A. Uman, V.A. Rakov, K.J. Rambo, and D.M. Jordan, "A Triggered Lightning Flash Containing Both Negative and Positive Strokes," Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, LXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2004GL019457.

2004
J.R. Dwyer, H.K. Rassoul, M. Al Dayeh, L. Caraway, B. Wright, A. Chrest, M.A. Uman, V.A. Rakov, K.J. Rambo, D.M. Jordan, J. Jerauld, and C. Smyth, "A Ground Level Gamma-Ray Burst Observed in Association with Rocket-Triggered Lightning," Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L05119, doi:10.1029/2003GL0 18770, 2004.

J.R. Dwyer, H.K. Rassoul, M. Al Dayeh, L. Caraway, B. Wright, A. Chrest, M.A. Uman, V.A. Rakov, K.J. Rambo, D.M. Jordan, J. Jerauld, and C. Smyth, "Measurements of X-Ray Emission from Rocket-Triggered Lightning," Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L05118, doi:10.1029/2003GL018771, 2004.

M. Bejleri, V.A. Rakov, M.A. Uman, K.J. Rambo, C.T. Mata, and M.I. Fernandez, "Triggered Lightning Testing of an Airport Runway Lighting System," IEEE Trans. on EMC, vol. 46, No. 1, 96-101, 2004.

Contracts and Grants

• UF Opportunity Fund , "Using Triggered Lightning Fulguritye Formatino to Investigate the Origin of Metallic Phases in Melt Chondrules"
• Federal Aviation Administration, "Lightning Protection Stanrds for Aircraft"
• Livermore Labs, "Lightning Experiments to Confirm Accuracy of Peak Current Measurement Methodology and to Elucidate Potential Mechanism Causing Indirect High Current Flows Induced by nearby Lightning Phase"