................................................................. . = T H E M A R T I A N C H R O N I C L E = . . . . The electronic newsletter by the International Mars Patrol, . . an observing program of the . . Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers . . Edited by: J.D. Beish . . June 1991 No. 3 . ................................................................. Biography of ALPO Mars Recorder: Donald C. Parker, M.D. Donald C. Parker, M.D. received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from St. Louis University in 1961 and a Doctorate of Medicine from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1965. After completing a residency in Anesthesiology and one year in cardi- ovascular physiology research at the University of Miami, Dr. Parker served as attending anesthesiologist at the United States Naval Hospital in Philadelphia from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1972 he was an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Miami Medical School and since 1972 has been a Senior Attending Anesthesiologist and Consultant in Respiratory Therapy at Mercy Hospital in Miami, Florida. Dr. Parker is a diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a Fellow of the American College of Anesthesiologists. He has published papers on his research in deep diving physiology and has presented the results of his work on inert gas narcosis before the Third International Symposium on Underwater Physiol ogy in 1969. In addition, he has had the opportunity to Assist- Dr. John Lilly in his classic experiments on the brain Physiolo- gy of the Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops Truncatus. Dr. Parker has had a life-long interest in astronomy and, since 1953, has built a number of telescopes ranging in aper- ture from three to sixteen inches. He has specialized in Solar System research and, under the direction of the noted profes- sional astronomer, the late Charles F. Capen, has authored or co-authored over 147 scientific papers on Mars, Jupiter, minor planets, and planetary photography. He has done extensive re search on the North Polar Cap and arctic climate of Mars and was the co-discoverer of the 1979 South Equatorial Belt disturb- ance on Jupiter. He was the first to photograph a major new atmospheric eruption on Jupiter in July, 1985. His numerous photographs of this event were analyzed by the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona for possible incorporation into the mission plan of the Galileo Jupiter Probe which was to be launched by N.A.S.A. in May, 1986. Unfortunately, the Galileo Mission has been delayed due to the Challenger catastro- phe. Dr. Parker is a Mars Recorder of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, an international organization composed of professional and amateur planetary astronomers. He is also the Assistant Director of the Institute for Planetary Research Observatories and a vice president of the Southern Cross Astronomical Society of Miami, Florida. He is an invited member of both the French and British Astronomical Societies and was the keynote speaker for the 1984 and 1987 United States Astro- nomical League conventions. He has, in addition, given many lectures on planetary astronomy and photography throughout the United States. He has served on the Mars Watch '88 Science Advisory Council of The Planetary Society, is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and member of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Parker is an internationally recognized authority on high resolu- tion photography of the planets, his photographs having appeared in amateur and profession al journals in the United States, Great Britain, France, South America, and Japan. He is a member of the International Planetary Patrol coordinated by Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Under the professional guidance of Dr. Leonard J. Martin at the Lowell Observatory, Dr. Parker has contributed over 300 calibrated photographs of the planet Mars since 1979. A number of these photos were used by the Planetary Research Center in producing large scale maps of Mars, for which he received credit. In September, 1986, Dr. Parker was sent to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observa- tory in Chile by Lowell Observatory, the National Geographic Society, and the University of Missouri. There he spent three weeks photographing Mars with a 24-inch Cassegrain reflector for the International Planetary Patrol. He was recently invit- ed to present a paper and poster at the Fourth International Conference on Mars in Tucson, Arizona, a meeting of the world's leading Mars researchers. In 1986, Dr. Parker received the Walter H. Haas Award for his contributions to planetary photography. He was only the second person to be presented with this award. He has received the Men of Achievement Award from the International Biographical Society, Cambridge, England. In a world-wide call for proposals by the Hubble Space Telescope Institute his paper finished within the top twenty in competition with thousands of amateur astronomers to use the space telescope in the 1990's. Dr. Parker is the co-author of a comprehensive book on observa- tional astronomy, Introduction to Observing and Photographing the Solar System, published by Willmann-Bell,Inc. Parker has au- thored and/or co-authored hundreds scientific papers and articles appearing in the The Strolling Astronomer (Journal of the ALPO), Sky and Telescope Magazine, Astronomy Magazine, Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Journal of the Arbeitsk- reis Planeten Beobachter of West Germany--Mitteilungen fur Planetenbeobachter, l'Astronomie, International Amateur and Professional Photoelectric Photometry (IAPPP) Communica tion, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), and Icarus. His scientif- ic work is listed as reference a Bulletin of the American Astro- nomical Society, in the Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan, a NASA Technical Memoranda, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), Earth, Moon, and Planets, The Astronomi- cal Journal, and L'Astronomie. He was recently invited to present a paper and poster at the Fourth International Confer ence on Mars in Tucson, Arizona, ameeting of the world's leading Mars researchers. As a result he was invited to to co- auhthor a paper "Meteorological Survey of Mars, 1968-1984", the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) of the American Geophysical Union. He is presently working with Leonard Martin of the Planetary Research Center of Lowell Observatory as a participating astronomer for the International Planetary Patrol, assisted Lowell/JPL/ University of Washington to establish "The Composite List of Dust Storms on Mars." Parker is a Scientific Collaborator for the Participating Scientific Investigation of the JPL/NASA Mars Observer Program and is member of the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Team for Mars.