{"id":12127,"date":"2026-01-06T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=12127"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:09:18","slug":"toshi-nishimura","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/profile\/toshi-nishimura\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshi Nishimura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Tn54NmxYlV_M6YGUWfMYf4XlCd3p50-T\/view\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Research Interests:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Aurora; Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Interaction at Earth; GPS Scintillation and Position Error.<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Website:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/toshinishimurabu\/\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/toshinishimurabu\/<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nToshi Nishimura received his PhD from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2009. He worked as a researcher at UCLA until 2016, and he is now an associate professor at Boston University. He received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2016 and a Distinguished Alumni Award from Tohoku University in 2024. His primary research interest is magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling using space- and ground-based observations, as well as its space weather impacts. He identified the sequence of events leading to substorm auroral onset, which was highlighted in a NASA press release. He also discovered the driver of a type of aurora called pulsating aurora, with results published in Science. He currently works on the impact of ionospheric structures on GPS positioning accuracy. His research has been featured in a number of science news media articles, including ones by NASA Science News and The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12127\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}