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Dieter Bilitza
Research Professor; Ph.D., Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany, 1984. Ionospheric physics, thermodynamics, and solar-terrestrial physics with a strong background in statistical modeling of ionospheric parameters. The principal author of the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) a model widely used for applications in science,engineering and education, and the recognized international standard for ionospheric parameters |
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Ken
Dere
Research
Professor; Ph.D., Catholic University,
1980. Solar physics, space weather. |
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Bob
Meier
Research Professor;
Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh,
1966. Upper
atmospheric and ionospheric physics, chemistry, and dynamics with
special emphasis on development of techniques for remote sensing of
composition and temperature. |
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Art
Poland
Research Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University,
1969. Energy
transport processes in the solar atmosphere involving radiative
transfer, hydrodynamic modeling, and the use of observational data
(especially spacecraft data) to provide boundary conditions and
predicted observables.
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Merav
Opher
Assistant Professor; Ph.D.,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1998. Heliospheric
physics, space weather involving the use of state-of-the art 3D MHD
parallel computing modeling and visualization. In particular, I
am interested in exploring plasma processes in coronal mass ejections,
solar and stellar winds interactions. |
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Michael
Summers
Professor;
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1985; Structure and
evolution of planetary atmospheres. |
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Phil Richards
Research Professor; Ph.D. La Trobe University, Australia, 1978. Numerical techniques for the study of ionospheric transport phenomena, ionospheric chemistry, absorption of solar EUV and
UV radiation and ionospheric photoelectron theory. Computational studies of the behavior of the ionosphere and plasmasphere, and auroral electron
precipitation and emissions |
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Dimitris
Vassiliadis
Research
Affiliate; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992. Space plasma physics,
magnetospherci physics, radiation belts, space weather, nonlinear
systems, chaos theory, control theory.
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Yuming Wang
Visiting Professor; Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of
China, 2003. Solar-terrestrial physics involving CME's initiation and
dynamic processes, particle acceleration, and solar/interplanetary
sources of geomagnetic storms.
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Robert
Weigel
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2000.
Magnetospheric
physics and geomagnetism, solar wind/magnetosphere/ionosphere coupling,
inverse methods for magnetospheric modeling, nonlinear
dynamics, decision theory applied to rare event forecasting, scientific
visualization, and collaborative software development.
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Jie
Zhang
Assistant Professor; Director of SWL; Ph.D., University of Maryland,
1999. Solar
physics and space weather research. Initiation processes of flares and
coronal mass ejections, kinematic and dynamic properties of CMEs,
Interplanetary
CMEs and solar wind disturbances, drivers of geomagnetic storms,
long-term and large scale variation of solar atmosphere, image
processing methods, auto-detection of transient events, and data
assimilation. |
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