Associate Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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phone: 410.575.3774
Our Solar System;
Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics
About
My research centers around topics in heliosphyics which include determining the sources of the solar wind, unraveling the physics of coronal mass ejections, and tracing dust and gas particles to their sources and acceleration mechanisms in the heliosphere. In addition to conducting research and maximizing the scientific return of data sets from operational spacecraft including ACE and WIND, I also lead a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Michigan in the development of portions of the Heavy Ion Sensor (HIS) which will be launched onboard the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission in 2017. HIS will measure the chemical composition of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere for the first time.
