Ion Access to the Inner Equatorial Magnetosphere
Using data from Van Allen Probes, GOES, MMS, ACE, and particle tracing models I am studying the cutoff rigidities of solar energetic particles.
Living with a Star Focused Science Team: Suprathermal Particles that Seed Energetic Particles
Suprathermal Particles Property Scaling from the Near-Sun region to 1 AU
Development of Small Heavy Ion instrument
My group is developing a low-cost instrument meant to identify the energy, mass, and charge state of solar energetic particles, which is necessary to understand particle acceleration in space.
Resolving Uncertainty in Past Carbon014 Spikes from Tree Rings
Carbon-14 spikes in tree rings are linked to solar energetic particle events, and can serve as a way to estimate the frequency of massive SEP events that are not in our modern spacecraft record
Space Weather UnderGround (SWUG) - Montana
Partnering with high school educators we are working to bring more space weather into the classroom while deploying professional magnetometers across the state to measured geomagnetic induced currents