Space Precipitation Impacts (SPI)

Space Precipitation Impacts (SPI)

Investigating the drivers of low, medium, and high energy particle precipitation and the subsequent impacts on the ionosphere and upper atmosphere.

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SPI our team: NASA Postdoc Early Career Scientist Spotlight

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SPI our team - Dr. Greeley Early Career Scientist Spotlight

SPI team member A. Greeley has been highlighted last month in the Goddard Early Career Scientist Spotlight. https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/ECSS/Ashley-Greeley.html. Check out the link to find out what Ashley is working on, as well as some fun facts about him when he is not working on his research!

SPI our team: NASA Postdoc Early Career Scientist Spotlight

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SPI our team - Dr. Shumko Early Career Scientist Spotlight

SPI team member M. Shumko has been highlighted this month in the Goddard Early Career Scientist Spotlight. https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/ECSS/Mike-Shumko.html. Check out the link to find out what Mike is working on, as well as some fun facts about him when he is not working on his research!

SPI Reads: Energetic Particle Journal Club

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SPI Energetic Particle Journal Club: Isolated Proton Aurora Driven by EMIC Pc1 Wave: PWING, Swarm, and NOAA POES Multi-Instrument Observations by Kim

Most weeks we have a journal club focused on papers written about energetic particle precipiation run by SPI Team member Ashley Greeley. This week we read a paper by Kim et al titled Isolated proton aurora driven by EMIC Pc1 wave: PWING, Swarm, and NOAA POES multi-instrument observations. This paper looks at three events where proton aurora and PC1 or Electromagnetic Ion Cycltron waves were observed showing data from multiple observational platforms. By using so many platforms we are able to get a better picture of what is going on in the magnetosphere, and when and why we see these two phenomena together. If you want to keep up with what we are reading make sure to check back regularly!

Code of Conduct

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Code of conduct for the meeting and collaborations:

SPI Equity: ELSP

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SPI Equity within Heliophysics

Every Spring and Fall there tends to be an increase in requests for recommendation letters: undergraduate and graduate students start looking at new programs, opportunities, and experiences; while at the same time award season is in full swing and we begin nominating our colleagues for awards that highlight their hard work and efforts. Though we often experience writing fatigue during this period, not only from recommendations but pending award deadlines, it is important that we as a community continue to write good recommendations and nominations as these letters help propel the next generation of researchers forward in their career and reward our colleagues for their hard work. Unfortunately, in writing these letters unconscious biases can leak into the writing and work against any attempt at helping our colleagues and students get ahead.

SPI our team: Goddard/JPL Collaborative Meeting

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SPI our team at the Collaborative Meeting for GSFC and JPL

SPI team members from Goddard attended and presented at a joint collaboration finding workshop between the ionosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere groups from Goddard and the Jet Propoulsion Laboratory. It’s always so easy to start working in your own little bubble. So having these workshops to actively look for and work towards creating new collaborations is so very important and very revitalizing. Getting new ideas and learning about new ongoing work is fantastic. We found so many areas of overlap that we’re already planning follow on workshops focused on very specific topics. Stay tuned to find out more about what comes out of these new relationships!

SPI our team: Shri Kanekal Seminar at UMD

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SPI our team at the Space and Cosmic Ray Physics Online Seminar

SPI team member S. Kanekal will be giving the Space and Cosmic Ray Physics Online seminar on Monday September 20th at 4:30 pm. Shri will be discussing recent results from the Van Allen Probes mission, looking at particle dynamics from a few eV to several tens of MeV.

New paper alert: A Strong Correlation Between Relativistic Electron Microbursts and Patchy Aurora

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New paper by Mike Shumko on precipitation

Space is big - like really big, so trying to figure out how everything works can be difficult. Often in space physics, we have issues with collecting data across large energy ranges and locations. Sometimes we get lucky by using two different measurements taken from similar or the same place to get a better idea of how things all work together. That’s the case for this newest paper by Mike Shumko A Strong Correlation Between Relativistic Electron Microbursts and Patchy Aurora. He and his teammates found an event where SAMPEX, a satellite looking at high energy electrons precipitating into the atmosphere, flew over an all-sky camera which infers precipitation of auroral energy electrons.

SPI our team: ISSI

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SPI our team at ISSI

SPI team members A. Halford, L. Blum, D. Sibeck, and M. Shumko are a part of a new ISSI team Dynamics of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Wave Activity in the Earth’s Magnetosphere. ISSI stands for International Space Science Institute. They are a group that brings teams of international scientists together to collaborate on specific topics. Our team is co-led by R. Bhanu and A. Halford. The goal will be to bring experts on electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves (or EMIC waves) together to update our collective knowledge with a review paper. In our current scientific culture, there is a near-continuous stream of new papers. Review papers are fantastic resources. They bring together a high-level look at the field’s current state, pull together recent and historical work on a topic, and place it into perspective. Others can then use these reviews as a guide to quickly find resources and references.

SPI our team: Magnetospheric Seminar

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SPI our team at the Magnetosphere Seminar

To understand the loss of particles from the magnetosphere and their impact on the atmosphere - you need an extensive range of experts. You need experts on the particles themselves, people who are experts on what affects the different particle populations, and then the impacts on the atmosphere. To understand all magnetosphere dynamics, you need an even larger group of researchers and experts. While you might not be an expert on everything, it is helpful to be aware of the topic areas and the lingo used to describe them. To help get different groups and experts talking to each other, Kyle Murphy and others started the Magnetospheric Seminar Series. Experts come and give overview talks about their favourite topics and answer questions. You can join these seminars on Mondays at noon Eastern. And no worries if you are busy then - they are all recorded and available online afterwards. Find out more about the magnetosphere seminar series here

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publications

A Strong Correlation Between Relativistic Electron Microbursts and Patchy Aurora

Published in Geophysical Research Letters, 2021

This paper looks at the relationship between relativistic electron microbursts and patchy aurora

Recommended citation: M. Shumko, B. Gallardo-Lacourt, A. J. Halford, J. Liang, L. W. Blum, E. Donovan, K. R. Murphy, E. Spanswick, (2021). "A strong correlation between relativistic electron microbursts and patchy aurora." Geophysical Research Letters. 48, e2021GL094696. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094696 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094696

Bypassing the bias

Published in Astronomy & Geophysics, 2021

Angeline G Burrell, McArthur Jones Jr, Alexa Halford, Kate Zawdie and John Coxon have collaborated to create a set of tools to tackle conscious and unconscious bias in space physics research

Recommended citation: Angeline G Burrell, McArthur Jones, Jr, Alexa Halford, Kate Zawdie, John Coxon, Bypassing the bias, Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 62, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 5.28–5.29, https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atab090 https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atab090

The Energy Spectra of Electron Microbursts Between 200 keV and 1 MeV

Published in JGR Space Physics, 2021

This study investigates the energy spectrum of electron microbursts observed by the Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst Intensity, Range, and Dynamics II CubeSats.

Recommended citation: Johnson, A. T., Shumko, M., Sample, J., Griffith, B., Klumpar, D., Spence, H., & Blake, J. B. (2021). "The Energy Spectra of Electron Microbursts Between 200 keV and 1 MeV." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029709. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029709 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094696</p> </article> </div>

Resolving magnetopause shadowing using multimission measurements of phase space density

Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2022

Recommended citation: Staples, F. A., Kellerman, A., Murphy, K. R., Rae, I. J., Sandhu, J. K., & Forsyth, C. (2022). Resolving magnetopause shadowing using multimission measurements of phase space density. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA029298. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029298 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029298

Chapter 7 - Imaging the magnetosphere–ionosphere system with ground-based and in-situ magnetometers

Published in Understanding the Space Environment through Global Measurements, 2022

Magnetometers can be used to diagnose wave processes and both large- and small-scale current systems throughout the coupled magnetosphere–ionosphere system.

Recommended citation: Kyle R. Murphy, Sarah N. Bentley, David M. Miles, Jasmine K. Sandhu, Andy W. Smith, Chapter 7 - Imaging the magnetosphere–ionosphere system with ground-based and in-situ magnetometers, Editor(s): Yaireska Colado-Vega, Dennis Gallagher, Harald Frey, Simon Wing, Understanding the Space Environment through Global Measurements, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 287-340, ISBN 9780128206300, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820630-0.00002-7. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128206300000027) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094696

Chapter 3 - Making the invisible visible: X-ray imaging

Published in Understanding the Space Environment through Global Measurements, 2022

X-ray imaging of the magnetosheath

Recommended citation: K.D. Kuntz, E. Atz, M.R. Collier, Y. Collado-Vega, H.K. Connor, F.S. Porter, D.G. Sibeck, B.M. Walsh, Chapter 3 - Making the invisible visible: X-ray imaging, Editor(s): Yaireska Colado-Vega, Dennis Gallagher, Harald Frey, Simon Wing, Understanding the Space Environment through Global Measurements, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 59-99, ISBN 9780128206300, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820630-0.00004-0.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128206300000040) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128206300000040

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Space Precipitaiton Impacts

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Space Precipitation Impacts: A comprehensive investigation of the drivers and impacts of precipitation across species and energy. Our introduciton talk describing our group and highlighting some of the activities which our group participate in.

teaching

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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