Spring 2018 Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
1/18 No Seminar – Organizational Meeting
1/25 SuperDARN Convection Electric Field Climatology Simon Shepherd Dartmouth College
2/1 Joint with IAR
An Ionospheric Signature of Life on Exoplanets
Michael Mendillo Boston University CSP
2/8 Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling processes associated with Subauroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) Bashi Ferdousi BU
2/15 Solar Sail Spacecraft Propulsion Les Johnson NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
3/8 No Seminar – Spring Break
3/15
3:30pm
Current Space Weather Research-to-Operations Activities and Policy Steven Clarke Office of Science and Technology Policy
3/22 The Northern Lights as a Scientific Instrument Eric Donovan University of Calgary
3/29 The Supersoaker Experiment: Measuring the Upper Atmosphere’s Response to Pure Water Vapor Mike Stevens Naval Research Laboratory
4/5 Characterizing Jupiter’s Auroral Acceleration Region Licia Ray University of Lancaster
4/12 Lessons Learned from the First Extra-Terrestrial UV Echelle Majd Mayyasi Boston University
4/19 Io’s Volcanic Atmosphere and Plasma Torus Carl Schmidt Boston University
4/26 Extending our Vision to a Galaxy of Planets Karl Stapelfeldt NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech