Sentences with phrase «space physics university»

He is professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia, and he was the founding Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami (1964 - 1967) and the Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics University of Maryland (1953 - 1962).

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Project partners were the Open University, University of Leicester and EADS Astrium UK (now Airbus Defence and Space) supported by funds from ESA, the Office of Science and Technology of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Wellcome Trust, the National Space Centre and the Millennium Commission.

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Lspace weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Lspace physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LSpace Physics (LASP).

This idea seems «pretty preposterous,» however, given that solar particles arrive at Earth from all directions, says Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The results have recently been presented in a doctoral thesis by Robin Ramstad, Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, Sweden.

MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder.

With a degree in theoretical physics from York University in the United Kingdom and previous experience at magazines including Physics World and New Scientist, Daniel writes about physics, astronomy, space science, energy, and European science physics from York University in the United Kingdom and previous experience at magazines including Physics World and New Scientist, Daniel writes about physics, astronomy, space science, energy, and European science Physics World and New Scientist, Daniel writes about physics, astronomy, space science, energy, and European science physics, astronomy, space science, energy, and European science policy.

«The MAVEN mission tells us that Mars lost substantial amounts of its atmosphere over time, changing the planet's habitability,» said David Brain, a MAVEN co-investigator and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

It's a compelling thought experiment, and one that Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, take up in a paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology.

Cluster's observations provide «the first look at the future of auroral research,» says space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

«The uncanny consistency of this stellar remnant offers intriguing evidence that the fundamental force of gravity — the big «G» of physics — remains rock - solid throughout space,» said Weiwei Zhu, an astronomer formerly with the University of British Columbia in Canada and lead author on a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, who led the study, said: «The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.

The dynamic range that our eyes and our brains offer is much greater than a computer algorithm,» said Anupreeta More, a project researcher at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo and a co-principal investigator for Space Warps.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Lawrence M. Krauss is director of the Arizona State University Origins Project, and a professor in its School of Earth and Space Exploration, and physics department.

Thirty years ago he got a Ph.D. in space physics at the University of Paris.

They've inspired us with their dedication and productivity,» said Aprajita Verma, a senior researcher in the department of physics at the University of Oxford and also a co-principal investigator for Space Warps.

According to Dan Baker, REPT instrument lead at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder, «a powerful electron acceleration event was already in progress, and we clearly saw the new belt and new slot between it and the outer belt.»

The expense and technical difficulties of aiming X-ray lasers at targets thousands of miles away in outer space had seemed insurmountable, but Dirk Bouwmeester, a former post doc under Penrose who is now a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, saw a way to make it feasible.

MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

The institution has long been regarded highly for its studies in physics, computer sciences and chemistry, though years of underfunding had left the university short of lab and classroom space.

«The short - term fluctuations — though large — don't influence climate so much,» said Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado, Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, which developed the TIM instrument.

Dreamt up in the 1970s, the Unruh effect — named after one of its discoverers, physicist William Unruh, now at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver — hinges on the fact that in quantum physics, empty space is never truly empty.

Developed by Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tSpace Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tspace - based radiance tests.

«With MAVEN, we're trying to understand how the sun and solar wind interact with Mars,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN's principal investigator from the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder.

asks Krimigis, the former head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

She received her doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1978, and once her career as an astronaut ended, she became a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the California Space Institute in 1989.

«We are not trying to fly the best and the latest, if what is available will meet the mission requirements,» says Stamatios Krimigis, head of the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, which is building the probe.

«I'm looking for fresh ideas in this space,» said Brenda Ekwurzel, a senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. «I was assigned to this session to break up any fights,» added Lee Anne Willson, an emerita professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University in Ames, and a member of AAAS's program committee for the conference.

The space agency says the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is designing the craft, dubbed Solar Probe + (Solar Probe Plus), which will wield a carbon - composite heat shield to survive the intense 2,550 - degree Fahrenheit (1,400 - degree Celsius) temperatures and radiation that will blast it as it passes within 4.5 million miles (7.2 million kilometers) of the sun.

The research entitled «Network analysis of geomagnetic substorms using the SuperMAG database of ground - based magnetometer stations» has just been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics by a team of researchers from the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick; The Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA.

«This research is an example of how laboratory experiments can be used to test mechanisms that may produce what we observe in space,» said Eric Blackman, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and one of the co-authors.

Stamatios «Tom» Krimigis, the former head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, had a hand in both missions, as well as in visits to all the other worlds in the solar system.

«We are beginning to see the links in a chain that begins with solar - driven processes acting on gas in the upper atmosphere and leads to atmospheric loss,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.

Scientific Paper 531: «A novel compact hybrid optical - gamma - camera: First clinical result,» A. C. Perkins, A. H. Ng, Radiological Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and Radiation Health and Safety, Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia; P. E. Blackshaw, S. Bugby, Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom; J. E. Lees, Space Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom; M. S. Alqatani, Radiological Sciences Department, King Khalid University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; L. Jambi, Radiological Sciences Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, s,» SNMMI's 63rd Annual Meeting, June 11 — 15, 2016, San Diego, Calif..

We did not expect this and we are still working to understand the physics of what is happening,» said Karl - Heinz Glassmeier, head of Space Physics and Space Sensorics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Gphysics of what is happening,» said Karl - Heinz Glassmeier, head of Space Physics and Space Sensorics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, GPhysics and Space Sensorics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

She has a degree in physics with astrophysics from the University of Leicester, UK, and previously worked in the education and space communications departments of the UK's National Space Cespace communications departments of the UK's National Space CeSpace Centre.

In addition to the Sloan Foundation grant, SDSS - V currently has commitments of support from 18 institutions around the world, including the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max - Planck - Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, University of Utah, the Israeli Centers of Research Excellence, the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, Harvard University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, Georgia State University, University of Wisconsin, Caltech, New Mexico State University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, University of Washington, Vanderbilt University, University of Warwick, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Monash University and Yale University, with additional partnership agreements underway.

Oct. 25th Dr. Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will present Exploration of the Outer Solar System: New Horizons at Pluto and Juno at Jupiter

MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

This question has been studied in a doctoral thesis by Catherine Diéval, a PhD student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and the Luleå University of Technology.

Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / Space Science Institute and NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington

The Space Science Laboratory (as part of the wider Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at The University of Sheffield) was recently awarded the STFC grant «Dynamics of key radiation belt emissions» (April 2018 to March 2021) and the successful applicant would have the opportunity to contribute to this active research project (depending on the topic of PhD chosen).

Jacobsen studied physics at the University of Oslo, where he obtained his PhD in space physics in 1991.

According to a 2010 study from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and the University of Leicester, double solar radiation waves periodically strip away 30 percent of the sparse Martian atmosphere.

«Now that we have all of the science instruments on the spacecraft, and they each have the full capability that was intended, we can look forward to getting the full science that we have planned,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

«The chameleon field is light in empty space but as soon as it enters an object it becomes very heavy and so couples only to the outermost layer of a big object, and not to the internal parts,» Holger Muller, an assistant professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said in a statement Thursday.