The Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Reasearch Laboratory (MIRL) at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), University of New Hampshire contributes to a variety of research projects in space physics. The lab primarily focuses on the development of instrumentation for ground-based, rocket-based, and satellite observations of space physics phenomena and analysis of the resulting observations.

The current research projects are:

  • Ground-based observations from ultra low frequency (ULF) and extremely low frequency (ELF) search-coil magnetometers for the study of magnetosphere-ionopshere coupling and its relationship with auroral phenomena.
  • Rocket-borne observations from low light imager, UV PMT, particle detector for in-situ auroral measurements.
  • Data analysis from a variety of satellite data

Updated News
  • Seven people from the MIRL presented research at the AGU 2009 Fall Meeting in San Francisco (go to the news archive to read more).
  • Want to know more about the hard work behind the science? Check out our new Travel Blogs section. We will add more as they become available.
  • UNH search-coil magnetometers installed at Longyearbyen were used in a study by Pirli et al. of a 2008 earthquake near the Norweigian territoy of Svalbard, published recently in Seismological Research Letters (vol. 81 num. 1).
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