Spring 2015 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
1/22 How do we compare planetary space environments? Barry Mauk JHU/APL
1/29 Does Auroral Kilometric Radiation Penetrate to Ground-Level? Jim Labelle Dartmouth
2/5 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) – A New Mission Whose Time Has Come! Nathan Schwadron UNH
2/12 Space: The Ultimate Laboratory [Joint with Mechanical Engineering] Daniel Gershman NASA/GSFC
2/19 Successive and Interacting Coronal Mass Ejections: Causes and Effects Noe Lugaz UNH
2/26 Thermal Processes in the Solar Corona Amir Caspi SwRI Boulder
3/5 From the Aurora to the Ring Current –The Ionospheric Contribution to the Magnetospheric Plasma Lynn Kistler UNH
3/19 Multi-Instrument Observations of Radiation Belt Physics: Van Allen Probes Perspectives John Foster MIT/Haystack
3/26 Characterizing Radiation Belt Dynamics Using Van Allen Probes Data Chia-Lin (Elly) Huang UNH
4/2 Science Beyond the Tower: Non-traditional Career Paths in Science Communication Mika McKinnon io9 & Physics Today
4/9 The Earth’s Dynamical Radiation Belts: New insights from the Van Allen Probes mission Shri Kanekal NASA/GSFC
4/16 Geospace Structure and Dynamics in the Coupled Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System: New Observational Insights Phil Erickson MIT/Haystack
4/23 It takes MOXIE to send people to Mars Michael Hecht MIT/Haystack
4/30 Structure and Dynamics of Mercury’s Magnetosphere Inferred from MESSENGER Observations and Highlights from the MESSENGER mission Haje Korth JHU/APL