William Rideout
Technical Staff Software support for geospace research at MIT Haystack. I oversee the Madrigal database, and processing of ISR and GNSS data available via Madrigal.I started working at MIT Haystack in 2001 after getting a masters degree in Computer Engineering at UMass Lowell, working with the Digisonde group. Since coming here, I have led the development of the Madrigal database (http://cedar.openmadrigal.org). I have also led the software side of our GNSS processing to derive total electron content, one of the most popular data products on Madrigal. I am also a key member of the software team in charge of processing our Incoherent Scatter Radar data.
In my spare time, I am one of the team proselytizing to my fellow employees the joys of riding a bicycle around the rural roads surrounding MIT Haystack. At home, I have spent an unreasonable number of years helping to build the Squannacook River Rail Trail in Townsend and Groton, MA (http://sqgw.org), with construction finally starting in 2019.
Madrigal Geospace Database
An upper-atmospheric science database at Haystack used by groups throughout the world. Madrigal manages archival and real-time data from a wide range of upper-atmospheric science instruments.
Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar
Incoherent scatter radar (ISR) has proved to be the most powerful and flexible ground-based instrument for probing the dynamics of thermal plasma in Earth’s ionosphere.