Space Science Seminar Series

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

"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

"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