GRADUATE STUDIES
SPACE SCIENCE
SPACE PLASMA RESEARCH FOCUS
Investigations of the Earth's environment in our solar system utilize Space as a laboratory for plasma physics. EOS provides teams of scientists studying the solar-terrestrial radiation environment with ground, rocket, and satellite instruments and with supporting theory.
Degree programs: M.S./Ph.D. in Physics (space physics/astrophysics specialization).
RESEARCH FOCI
The aurora and Earth's magnetosphere.
Solar atmosphere and solar wind.
Solar flare dynamics.
Active space plasma experiments.
Interstellar gas in the solar system.
PAST STUDENT RESEARCH
• "Source and Acceleration of Energetic HE+ Ions at the Earth's Bow Shock"
• "Some Observations of Magnetic Clouds and Simulations of a Normal Fast Shock Interaction with an Idealized Magnetic Cloud"
• "An In-Situ Measurement of Charged Mesopheric Dust during a Sporadic Atom Layer Event"
• "Effects of Non-Maxwellian Auroral Source Electrons"
• "Resonance Absorption of MHD Surface Waves with Applications to the Solar Atmosphere"
• "Parametric Instabilities of Alfrén waves in the Solar Wind"
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