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Marc R. Lessard
Research Associate Professor
Joint Appointment Department of Physics and Space Science Center
Marc R. Lessard received a B.S. in physics from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), and a Ph.D. in physics from Dartmouth College. He has worked as a research associate at the Institute for Space Research in Calgary, Canada, and as a research project engineer at the UNH Space Science Center. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and Sigma Xi's Scientific Research Society. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications on experimental space plasma physics, measurements and analysis of auroral phenomena, and rocket-borne and ground-based instruments.
(603) 862-2590
marc.lessard at unh.edu |
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Paul W. Riley
Research Engineer
Paul Riley received a B.S.E.E. and a M.S.E.E. from Tufts University and has professional experience in imaging for explosives detection systems and hardware for GPS navigations systems. Paul began working with Dr. Marc Lessard at Dartmouth College and is now a Research Engineer for the MIRL at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Space Science Center (SSC).
(603) 862-2653
paul.w.riley at unh.edu
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Brent Sadler
Brent Sadler is a physics PhD student at the University of New Hampshire and was largely responsible for construcing the Facility for Optical Calibration at Low Light Levels (FOCALLL). He worked on calibrating the Fast Auroral Imager for the ePOP satellite. Brent has designed the cooling system for the CASCADES2 onboard imager and traveled to Alaska to maintain the system for launch. He is currently analyzing CHAMP data as part of his graduate dissertation.
(603) 862-3569
brent.sadler at unh.edu |
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Allison Jaynes
Allison Jaynes received her B.S. in physics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She is currently working towards a Ph.D in physics at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Allison traveled to Kaktovik, AK to provide down range camera support for the CASCADES2 sounding rocket project and will be designing the onboard imager for the RENU sounding rocket. The data obtained will be analyzed as part of her graduate dissertation.
(603) 862-0719
a.jaynes at unh.edu |
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Carol Weaver
Carol received her BS in physics from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Her research interests include studying ULF and ELF magnetic field waves with ground based magnetometers. She went to Svalbard in Summer 2010 to perform maintenance on the array of ULF detectors installed on the island. Data and results from the detectors will be the basis of her Ph.D dissertation.
carol.weaver at unh.edu |
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Ian Cohen
Ian Cohen received his BA in Astronomy and Physics with distinction from the Boston University and worked for three years at the Museum of Science, Boston as a Program Presenter at the Charles Hayden Planetarium and as a staff member at the Gilliland Observatory. At UNH, he is enrolled in the Physics PhD program and serves as Manager of the UNH Observatory. His graduate research will be focusing on imager development and analysis of data from the MICA sounding rocket.
ian.cohen at unh.edu |
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Liam Daly |
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Matthew Young
Matt is currently in his senior year of the Physics B.S. program at UNH. He has assisted in testing search coil magnetometers currently deployed in Antarctica and in analyzing magnetometer data in order to study ionospheric propagation characteristics of narrow- and broadband ULF micropulsations. He helped with research into Pc1 wave observation for Hyomin Kim's thesis and is currently working on a study of ducted propagation of bursty irregular ULF waves (Pi1B) in the ionospheric waveguide. |
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Corey Rumph
Corey is currently in his junior year of the Mechanical Engineering program at UNH. He assisted with the creation of a thermal test setup for the RENU imager and has conducted numerous tests on the imager to help graduate students determine the best system with which to cool it. He has also aided in machining parts for the imager. His most recent project is to work on a system for the heat treatment of magnetically permeable alloys that will one day be used in magnetometers.
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Drummond Biles
Drummond is currently in his junior year of the Mechanical Engineering program at UNH. In that time, he has worked on testing ways to cool the RENU imager CCD chip and has been involved in various machining projects related to the RENU campaign. He has also built multiple induction coil magnetometer sensors with accompanying junction boxes. His current work focuses on design and testing of stilt structures suitable to use on Antarctic observatories.
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Jim Gealy
Jim Gealy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He has worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the Flight Dynamics Branch. He has also served as a Teaching Assistant in the ECE department at UNH for the Digital Systems Course. During his time at the MIRL, Jim traveled to Iqaluit, Nunavut and McMurdo Station, Antarctica in support of the group's science objectives. Jim received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering with research focused on unidirectional free-space optical telemetry systems for sounding rockets and their sub-payloads.
(603) 862-0719
jimgealy at gmail.com |
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Hyomin Kim
Hyomin Kim received a B.S. in astronomy and space science (1999), a B.E. in electrical engineering (1999), and an M.S. in space science (2001) from the Kyung-Hee University in South Korea. He worked at Dartmouth College with Dr. Marc Lessard and received an M.S. in engineering physics in 2004. He continued his work in the Ph.D. program in Systems Design Engineering at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) with Dr. Marc Lessard. He was involved in a sounding rocket magnetometer project sponsored by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and a ground-based magnetometer project for the measurement of ELF magnetic field waves at the South Pole. He also worked on the array of ULF magnetometer systems installed in Svalbard for the analysis of ULF Pi1B magnetic pulsations.
Hyomin is currently employed at the Virginia Tech Center for Space Science and Engineering.
(540) 231-0971
hmkim at vt.edu
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Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones received a B.A. in physics from Dartmouth College and is a Ph.D candidate in physics at the University of New Hampshire. She has worked on sounding rocket instrumentation projects, including the mechanical design of the MIRL rocket imagers. She traveled to Alaska for the ROPA sounding rocket launch and provided down range support at Fort Yukon, AK and Toolik Field Station for ACES and CASCADES2. Sarah analyzed space- and ground-based observations of pulsating aurora as part of her graduate disseration.
Sarah is currently employed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
(603) 862-0719
sarah.jones at unh.edu
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Amanda Plagge
Amanda Plagge received a B.E. from Dartmouth College and an M.S. from Thayer School of Engineering. Her original masters project involved the set-up and monitoring of a small scale micro-turbine wind farm at the South Pole to determine their usefulness for powering the ARROs. Ultimately that project was downsized and her thesis became the application of existing technology to de-icing the wind turbine blades. Amanda is currently earning her Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire. |
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Hyojin Kim
Hyojin Kim received a B.S. in Systems Management Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea and an M.S. in Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire. As part of the ROPA mission, he traveled to Alaska to install ground-based induction coil magnetometers at Poker Flat Research Range. He provided an adaptive lossless data compression module for the MIRL rocket imagers and is involved in the monitoring software for the ground-based ULF data acquisition system. Hyojin is currently a Ph.D. student at UC Davis. |
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Matthew Argall
Graduate Research Assistant
Matthew Argall received his bachelor's degree from Augsburg College and master's degree in physics from the University of New Hampshire. He worked on designing the Super Low-frequency Induction Coil and travelled to Antarctica for the installation of the Autonomous Remote Real-Time Observatory at McMurdo Station.
Matt is currently spending time in Costa Rica, teaching English and exploring options for space science research. |
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Kevin Rychert
Kevin received his B. S. in Physics from the University of New Hampshire in May 2011. Throughout his work at the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Research Lab, he analyzed over 7 months of THEMIS all-sky ground camera data and catalogued the occurrence rates and duration of pulsating aurora. Then, he used mosaics created from the entire THEMIS ASI array to study the temporal evolution of pulsating aurora on a large scale. His senior thesis focused on this work and correlation to GOES-13 (currently GOES-EAST) particle flux data.
Kevin currently works at the Electron Para-magnetic Resonance (EPR) research laboratory at Dartmouth College.
kevin.m.rychert at dartmouth.edu |
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Melissa Geddes
Melissa Geddes assisted with the analysis of Pi1B data from the South Pole and the construction of the Svalbard Ultra Low Frequency magnetometer systems in the summer of 2006.
Melissa is currently a content developer for GEX Inc., a publishing company specializing in textbooks. |
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Philip Fernandes
Philip Fernandes assisted Brent Sadler with the constuction of the clean room calibration facility. Following the completion of the construction, he worked with Marc Lessard while writing his senior thesis on pulsating aurora, utilising radar data to measure its thickness, and black aurora, performing a statistical study of its occurence within pulsating aurora. Philip entered the PhD program in physics at Dartmouth College in fall of 2009. |
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Chris Black
Chris joined MIRL in fall 2005 and during his first year primarily helped to design, build, and test search coil magnetometers. He was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in 2006 to analyze South Pole magnetometer data for Pi1B signals, continue work on the Svalbard ULF project, and travel to Svalbard to install the instruments. After studying abroad, Chris returned to the lab to assist with the ACES rocket project and the magnetometer systems and their data. |
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Adam White
Adam worked at the MIRL during July of 2011, during which time he continued the work of previous SMART student Lule Champine. Adam helped to design, construct, and field-test a full-scale cubical quad antenna tuned to 38.2 MHz. The tests Adam performed were crucial in identifying the strengths and flaws of early designs. |
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Luke Champine
Luke worked at the MIRL during July of 2010. He played an important role in modeling antenna characteristics and designing a prototype of a cubical quad antenna intended for use with a riometer. Luke is currently enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI), where he studies electrical engineering. |
