Space Science Seminar Series

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Upcoming Seminars

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Past Seminars

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The videos can be found on our YouTube UNH Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below. 

"On the issues of identifying Substorms" 
Speaker:  Christian Lao – University College London
May 8, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST


"Numerical Simulations of Solar Energetic Particle Event Observed by Multi-Spacecraft" 
Speaker:  Xiaohang Chen – University of Michigan
May 1, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST


"Advances in global modeling of ring current formation, evolution, and decay" 
Speaker: Anthony Sciola – JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
April 17, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST


"Electrons Can Smile (even though they're negative!): A Decade of Discovery with MMS"
Speaker: Jason Shuster – University of New Hampshire
March 13, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST


"Our Space Environment from the Moon to the Interstellar Medium"
Speaker: Fatemeh Rahmanifard – University of New Hampshire
March 6, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST


"Agile Collaboration: Citizen Science as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Heliophysics"
Speaker: Vincent Ledvina – University of Alaska Fairbanks
February 28, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST


"Understanding Solar Energetic Particles and Coronal Mass Ejections: Recent Studies and Future Directions"
Speaker: Bin Zhuang  – University of New Hampshire
February 7, 2024  |  3:10–4:10 pm EST

The videos can be found on our YouTube UNH Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below. 

PRIME: A Probabilistic Neural Network Approach to Solar Wind Propagation from L1

Speaker: Connor O'Brien – Boston University
November 8, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Investigating Localized Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting from Sun to Mud
Speaker: Raman Mukundan – UNH graduate student
System Science Tools for MHD Simulations
Speaker: Brianna Isola – UNH graduate student
October 18, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

 
VISIONS and VISIONS-2: Sounding rocket missions to study Earth’s escaping atmosphere

Speaker: Doug Rowland – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
October 11, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Cross-Scale Modeling of Storm-Time Radiation Belt Variability
Speaker: Adam Michael – The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
October 4, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Solar Close Observations of Proximity Experiments (SCOPE)
Speaker: Jun Lin – Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science
September 28, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Modeling Particle Acceleration and Transport during Solar Flares
Speaker: Xiaocan Li – Dartmouth College
September 27, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

3D MHD Time-Dependent Charge State Ionization and Recombination Modeling of the Bastille Day Coronal Mass Ejection
Speaker: Yeimy Rivera – Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Universty
September 20, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Density profile results from the Endurance Sounding Rocket Mission
Speaker: Diana Swanson – UNH graduate student
May 3, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Partnering with the Goddard Heliophysics Science Division
Speaker: Georgia Adair De Nolfo – NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
April 26, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

A trans-disciplinary approach for tracing the energy flow throughout the heliosphere
Speaker: Jaye Vernerio – NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
April 19, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Investigating High Altitude Neutral Upwelling in the Cusp
Speaker: Jenna Burget – UNH graduate student
Contrasting Dipolarization Front Structure and Dynamics with MMS
Speaker: Tyler Metivier – UNH graduate student
April 12, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Eclipse Science at Haystack Observatory
Speaker: John Swoboda – MIT Haystack Observatory
April 5, 2023 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST

Study of the Atypical Sporadic E (Es) layer Development over the Brazilian Sector
Speaker: Laysa Resende – State Key Laboratory for Space Weather and National Institute for Space Research
March 29, 2023 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

Solar Wind Driving the Outer Radiation Belt Flux Variation
Speaker: Ligia da Silva – State Key Laboratory for Space Weather and National Institute for Space Research
March 22, 2023 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST
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An Effective Collision Operator for Heat-Flux-Generated Whistler Turbulence
Speaker: Evan Yerger – Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
February 22, 2023 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

The IMAP Student Collaboration's 3UCubed CubeSat and Other Smallsat Programs
Speaker: Noé Lugaz – CME Group, University of New Hampshire
February 15, 2023 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

Investigating the magnetic field structure of Coronal Mass Ejections during their propagation
Speaker: Florian Regnault – CME Group, University of New Hampshire
February 8, 2023 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

Spectroscopic and Spectropolarimetric Insights into Reconnection Dynamics in Solar Flares
Speaker: Ryan French – National Solar Observatory (NSO)
February 1, 2023 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

The videos can be found on our YouTube UNH Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below. 

"The Quest for finding Acoustic Sources on the Solar Surface: the DKIST era"
Speaker: Dr. Shah Mohammad Bahauddin - Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
December 7, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Advantages of Characterising the Suprathermal Electron Pitch-angle Distributions in ICMEs and Long-term Variations"
Speaker: Fernando Carcaboso - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
November 30, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Energy Transfer via the Aurora on Mesoscales: Energy Flux, Average Energy, and Hall Auroral Conductance from THEMIS All-Sky-Imagers"
Speaker: Dr. Christine Gabrielse, Research Scientist - The Aerospace Corporation
November 9, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"The AERO-VISTA Mission: Auroral Radio Science and Electromagnetic Vector Sensors"
Speaker: Dr. Frank D. Lind - MIT Haystack Observatory
November 4, 2022 | 2:00–3:00 pm EST

"Understanding the Acceleration and Release of Solar Energetic Particles Using Observations from Multiple Viewpoints and in Multiple Wavelengths"
Speaker: Dr. Bin Zhuang, Research Scientists II - University of New Hampshire Space Science Center
November 2, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Recent Progress concerning the Local Interstellar Medium" 
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Linsky - JILA (University of Colorado & NIST)
October 26, 2022 | 2:00–3:00 pm EST

"GOLD observations of Traveling Atmospheric Disturbances - what we can learn from 4 years of observations" 
Speaker: Dr. Scott England - Virginia Tech
October 19, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Two years of water ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere"
Speaker: Dr. Aurélien Stcherbinine - Northern Arizona University
October 12, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Response of Upper Thermospheric Winds to Auroral and Sub-auroral Dynamics" 
Speaker: Dr. Ying Zou - The University of Alabama in Huntsville
September 28, 2022 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

The videos can be found on our YouTube UNH Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below. 

"Solar Wind Coupling and Magnetospheric Substorms"
Speaker: Robert McPherron, Professor of Space Physics - University of California, Los Angeles
April 22, 2021 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"An MMS Encounter with the Ion and Electron Diffusion Regions at a Flapping and Twisted Tail Current Sheet"
Speaker: Charlie Farrugia, Research Professor - UNH Space Science Center
April 14, 2021 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"HelioSwarm: Uncovering the Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas"
Speaker: Kristopher Klein, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Arizona
April 7, 2021 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Capturing Spatial and Temporal Variability in Geospace"
Speaker: Kevin Pham, Project Scientist - High Altitude Observatory, National Center of Atmospheric Research
March 31, 2021 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere (MIT) Coupling Phenomena"
Speaker: Banafsheh Ferdousi, Research Scientist - UNH Space Science Center
March 24, 2021 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Flux Transfer Events in Mercury's Magnetosphere"
Speaker: Weiji Sun, Research Fellow, Climate and Space Sciences & Engineering - University of Michigan
March 3, 2021 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

The videos can be found on our YouTube UNH Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below. 

"Exploring the ionosphere/thermosphere dynamics during geospace storms with the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) model"
Speaker: Dong Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nov. 18, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Radial and Temporal Evolution of Stream Interaction Regions and Co-Rotating Interaction Regions"
Speaker: Robert C. Allen, Space Physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Nov. 4, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Our Next LEAP Forward In Studying Gamma Ray Bursts"
Speaker: Mark McConnell, UNH Professor of Physics and Director for SwRI-EOS  
Oct. 21, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Observation-Based Approaches to the Modelling of Magnetised CMEs in the Inner Heliosphere with EUHFORIA"
Speaker: Camilla Scolini, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of New Hampshire
Oct. 16, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Simulating storm-time magnetospheric dynamics with the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model"
Speaker: Shanshan Bao, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rice University 
Oct. 7, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"The Onset of Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetotail"
Speaker: Kevin Genestreti, Senior Research Scientist for SwRI-EOS
Sept. 30, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms: Transforming the Understanding and Predictability of Space Weather"
Speaker: Slava Merkin, Space Physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Sept. 2, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST

"Advancing Our Understanding of Space Weather with Science, Machine Learning, and Technology"
Speaker: Matthew Argall, Research Scientists III - University of New Hampshire Space Science Center
July 15, 2020 | 3:00–4:00 pm EST