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Past Seminars
The videos can be found on our YouTube Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below.
"Overstretched Thin Current Sheets and the Onset of Magnetotail Reconnection: Bridging Kinetic and MHD Models"
Speaker: Dr. Harry Arnold – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)
May 21, 2025 | 3:30–4:30 pm EST
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"Dayside Magnetospheric Response to a Solar Wind Tangential Discontinuity: Global MHD Simulation Using OpenGGCM"
Speaker: Neha Srivastava – UNH graduate student
"Two-Dimensional Bernstein–Greene–Kruskal Modes: Theory, Simulations, and Reality"
Speaker: James McClung – UNH graduate student
April 30, 2025 | 3:30–4:30 pm EST
"Spreading of the Magnetic Reconnection X-line in Particle-in-Cell Simulations: Mechanism and the Effect of the Drift-Kink Instability"
Speaker: Shan-Chang Lin – Dartmouth College
March 26, 2025 | 3:30–4:30 pm EST
"An Overview of MMS Observations during the May 11th, 2024, Mother’s Day Storm"
Speaker: Dr. Jason Beedle – University of New Hampshire (UNH)
March 19, 2025 | 3:30–4:30 pm EST
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"Advancements in Microchannel Plate Technology for Enhanced Space Instrumentation"
Speaker: Dr. Camden Ertley – Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
February 26, 2025 | 3:30–4:30 pm EST
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"The Electron Diffusion Region of Magnetic Reconnection: A Decade of MMS Results"
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Genestreti – Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
February 19, 2025 | 3:30–4:30 pm EST
"The Significance of Helium in the Solar Wind: Insights from 1 AU"
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Alterman – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
January 22, 2025 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST
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The videos can be found on our YouTube UNH Space Science Seminars channel or through the links below.
"The Magnetosphere Aurora Reconnection Boundary Layer Explorer (MARBLE): Understanding How Magnetic Reconnection Generates the Aurora"
Speaker: Dr. John Dorelli – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
December 4, 2024 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST
"Investigating Magnetic Fluctuations at Dissipation Scales in the Solar Wind"
Speaker: Alvin Angeles – Graduate Student, University of New Hampshire
"Investigating Energy Conversion during Magnetic Reconnection using Non-Maxwellianity Measures and Relative Entropy"
Speaker: Hanieh Karimi – Graduate Student, University of New Hampshire
November 13, 2024 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST
"Space Weather from L1 to Earth and into the Classroom – Turbulence in the Sheath of the 2023-04-23 CME and a Space Physics VR Environment for Research, Education, and Outreach"
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Argall – Research Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
October 23, 2024 | 3:10–4:10 pm EST
"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.
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
