John R. (Bob) Kelty Electronics Shop Manager e-mail: jkelty@unl.edu Office: Ferguson 1B Phone: (402) 472-2793

Electronic Instrumentation of Physics Experiments

1992 B.L. Hansen, J.R. Kelty and K.C. Kuivinen. NASA Earth Science and Applications Grant NAGW-3106. Remote measurement of ice sheet parameters at depth. $522,785 (3 yr).

Ander, M. E., et al. Test of Newton's inverse-square law in the Greenland ice cap, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 62, No. 9, Feb. 1989, pp. 985-988.

Gundestrup, N. S., D. Dahl-Jensen, B. L. Hansen, and J. R. Kelty (1993). Bore-hole survey at Camp Century Greenland 1989. Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 21, pp. 187-193.

Hancock, W., K.S. Kuivinen, J.R. Kelty, B.L. Hansen (1998). Status of Hot Water Access Hole Drilling and Thermal Probe Technology Developed at UNL-PICO/SIRG.

Hansen, B. L., J. R. Kelty (1994). A New Short Borehole Logging Tool. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue No. 49, Ice Drilling Technology, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology, Tokyo, Japan, April 20-23, 1993. pp. 218-223.

Hansen, B. L., J. R. Kelty, and N. S. Gundestrup (1989). Resurvey of Byrd Station Drill Hole, Antarctica. Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-6.

Kelty, J. R. and B. L. Hansen (1988). Electronic instrumentation used in borehole surveying. In: Ice Core Drilling, C. Rado and D. Beaudoing (Editors), Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology, Grenoble, France 10-14 October, pp. 171-179.

Kelty, J. R. (1986). Designing the Texas Instruments TMS9914 GPIB circuit for microprocessor applications. Proceedings 29th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, August, Lincoln, Nebraska, pp. 721-724.

Kelty, J. R. (1984). Monitoring a physics experiment with the Pet microcomputer. IEEE Southeastern Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April, pp. 491-494.

Kelty, John R. (1982). A "Cheap Talker" for the Radio Shack Color Computer. Color Computer News, November, pp. 58-63.

Kelty, John R. (1982). Cheap Talker. '68' Micro Journal, Vol. IV Issue XII, December, pp. 18-19.

Kelty, John R. (1983). A Cheap Talker for our CoCo. The Rainbow, May, pp. 275-282.

Kelty, John R. (1984). You Light Up My Multi-Pak. Hot Co-Co March, pp.56-59

Kelty, John R. (1985). Teac FD-54A LED Modification. Soft Sector, April, Vol. 1 No. 9, pp. 88-89.

Kelty, John R. (1985). Make Your Own Keyboard Extension Cable. Soft Sector, Vol. 1, No. 10, May, pp. 87.

Kelty, Bob (2000). A Bright Idea, Light It Up. The Lion Roars, Publication of the Lionel Collectors Club of America, Vol. 30, No. 3, December, pp. 16-19.

Kelty, Bob (2001). Models of the Louisville and Nashville. The Lion Roars, Publication of the Lionel Collectors Club of America, Vol. 30, No. 6, June, pp. 14-18.

Sigma Xi Support of Research Award, 1987

John Robert (Bob) Kelty was born on 21 August 1953 in Warner Robins, Georgia. He graduated from Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky and attended the University of Louisville Speed Scientific School of Engineering for one year before enlisting in the United States Air Force for four years. In 1977 he received the Associate Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Bachelors (1979), Masters (1982), and Ph.D. (1995) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He has been employed by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNL since May, 1979, as Electronics Shop Manager. He has taught the undergraduate Electrical and Electronics Circuits course Physics 231. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
His polar work experience began in 1986 with Lyle Hansen and includes updating borehole logging systems with microprocessors and logging the deep boreholes at Byrd Station, Antarctica, Camp Century, Greenland, and Dye 3, Greenland. He has worked with the Philberth Probe (an ice sampling melting probe for Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet study) at GRIP Summit (1993-4) and Dye 2 (1996), Greenland, for which he was a coinvestigator for the Snow and Ice Research Group (SIRG) proposal to the NASA Earth Science and Applications Division.
Bob is married to Karen (Zarek) Kelty. They have two daughters, are past co-treasurers of the Pius X High School Band Boosters, and are members of St. Patrick Catholic Church where Bob serves as both Accolytle and Lector. Bob is Financial Secretary for the Council 13576 Knights of Columbus (a Catholic Fraternal Organization). He is a sustaining member of the Louisville & Nashville RR Historical Society and a member of the Lionel Collectors Club of America, collecting and operating electric toy trains as a hobby.

[HOME] [PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS] [STUDENT SERVICES] [NEWS & EVENTS]
[RESEARCH & FACILITIES] [DEPARTMENT INFO] [CONTACT US]