Dr. Craven is associate dean of the College of Natural Science at Mathematics, Director of the college’s Engineering, Science and Technology Experiment Station, and an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, following retirement in February 2009. Prior to retirement he was a tenured professor of physics, where he held a joint appointment in the Geophysical Institute and the Department of Physics. He was chair of the Physics Department from 2003 to 2009. Principal research activities are in aeronomy, and auroral and magnetospheric physics. He joined the faculty in the summer of 1991 after having moved from the University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1969. Appointments at The University of Iowa included research associate, 1969, assistant research scientist, 1971, associate research scientist, 1975, research scientist, 1982, and adjunct professor of physics, 1989. While at the University of Iowa, Dr. Craven participated in the design, fabrication, calibration and flight operations of numerous instruments flown on more than 14 spacecraft for the detection of geomagnetically trapped energetic electrons and protons, and low-energy magnetospheric plasmas, and for faint-light imaging and photometry of the aurora and other emission sources at visible and/or ultraviolet wavelengths. This research included P/Comet Halley and the diffuse galactic UV background. He was project manager for three of these missions, including auroral imaging in the Dynamics Explorer program. He was also a co-investigator in NASA’s ISTP spacecraft mission and the TIMED spacecraft mission, and the GI’s HEX-1 sounding rocket mission that flew in March 2003. In the HEX mission he was responsible for design and delivery of a photometric instrument. He was principle investigator in the HEX-2 mission that flew four sounding rockets in 2007. Present research work concentrates on large-scale variations in thermospheric composition in the dayside hemisphere driven by magnetospheric energy deposition at auroral latitudes, large-scale auroral morphology and dynamics, and spatial mappings between the aurora and magnetotail. He is author or co-author more than 100 scientific papers and a member of the AGU, AAAS and . He was associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) in 1988-90 and 1997-2001. Academic duties in the physics department included teaching, at various times, introductory physics, advanced mechanics or advanced laboratory for undergraduate physics majors, and a graduate course in space physics. He was a member of the UAF Appeals Board (chair), and NASA’s Sounding Rocket Working Group (2005-2008). Other activities included the UAF Faculty Senate (1992-98; president-elect, 1996-97; president, 1997-98), the UA Faculty Alliance comprising officers of UAA, UAF and UAS governance (1996-98; chair, 1997-98), the UAF 2001 Accreditation Steering Committee (1999-2001), the UAF Campus Master Planning Committee (1998-2006, chair 1998-2001) and its Circulation and Parking Subcommittee (2003-2006). He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Alaska Space Grant Program and a faculty advisor to the Alaska Student Rocket Program (1992-94), and was a member of the Management Operations Working Group for NASA's Ionosphere, Thermosphere and Mesosphere Branch (1993-96; chair, 1995-96).