Spring 2015
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Space Science
Lightning Strikes Twice
IT WAS PURE SERENDIPITY that Joe Dwyer became the world expert in the high-energy physics behind lightning strikes, and ironic that he's now landed back in the virtual stomping grounds of his research from days of yore. Read More… |
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Space Science
Small is Beautiful
IN DECEMBER OF 2013, Space Science Center associate professor Marc Lessard stepped on a little donut-shaped bead on his daughter’s bedroom floor and had a eureka moment. Read More… |
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Ocean Science
Moving Target
IN SEPTEMBER OF 2014, with $800,000 in fresh research funds from the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) to administer, the Northeast Consortium put out a region-wide request for proposals to its constituency of commercial fishermen, scientists, and other stakeholders in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. Read More… |
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Earth Systems Science
Hello, Goodbye
IT TOOK SPHERES nearly two years to finally catch up with Carmody "Carrie" McCalley, who arrived at the Earth Systems Research Center in the fall of 2013 to work with Ruth Varner on trace gas analysis in Sweden and at Sallie's Fen in Barrington, New Hampshire. Read More… |
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Earth Systems Science
Head in the Clouds
WHEN MUGE KOMURCU looks skyward at passing clouds, she admires their beauty and mercurial nature like any good cloud watcher. But she notes, "When I see a cloud, I think about the small ice particles and cloud droplets inside." Read More… |
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Space Science
Having a FIELDS Day
WHEN NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission blasted off at 10:45 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2015, a decade’s-worth of effort by Space Science Center scientists, engineers, machinists, and students was sent skyward on the first scientific mission dedicated to studying magnetic reconnection—a poorly understood, universal process in which magnetic fields reconfigure themselves and release enormous amounts of energy. Read More… |
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