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Marc R. Lessard
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 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, designed and built the onboard auroral imager for the RENU sounding rocket and traveled to Svalbard for the launch, and participated in the MICA sounding rocket launch from Poker Flat, Alaska. She is currently analyzing ground- and space-based observations of pulsating aurora for 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 has travelled to Svalbard, Alaska, and Greenland to preform maintainance on the magnetometers. Her dissertation will involve ground-based wave obsevations, radiation belt losses, and space weather applications.
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 focuses on sounding rocket investigations of small-scale electromagnetic waves that can appear as a result of the interaction between the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Ian received a 2011 Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) fellowship from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and spent two months at Goddard working on test data analysis for the Fast Plasma Investigation instrument on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellite mission.
ian.cohen at unh.edu |
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Liam Daly |
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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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Erik Lindgren
Erik is currently in his senior year of the Physics program at UNH. Since he started
working at the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Research Lab during his first semester of his sophomore year he has worked on data analysis of ELF magnetometer data, assembling of induction coil junction boxes and data analysis of EMIC waves measured at the Halley Research Station. Erik is also a member of the UNH Ski Team, and is a second year co-captain of the Nordic Ski Team.
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John Heavisides
John Heavisides is currently in his sophomore year of the Physics program at UNH. Since he started at MIRL during the second semester of his freshman year, he has worked on analyzing ELF magnetometer data, creating visualization tools for Antarctic research, and maintaining this website. Other work in EOS has included creating data anlysis tools for the RBSP satelites during the summer of 2012.
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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
After getting his Master's Degree from UNH, Matt spent time at the University of Costa Rica as an Interim Professor doing research and teaching. Now, he is back at UNH for his doctorate working for Roy Torbert and Li-Jen Chen studying asymmectric reconnection at the subsolar magnetopause and is working with the Electron Drift Instrument as well as the fluxgate and search coil magnetometers for the Magnetosphere Muti-Scale mission planned to launch in 2014.
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Matthew Young
Matt completed the UNH Physics B.S. program in May 2012. From October 2008 until graduation, he worked at the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Research Lab, where he assisted in testing search-coil magnetometers, analyzing ULF and ELF magnetometer data, and maintaining this website. As a junior and senior, his work focused on Pi1B geomagnetic micropulsations in the high-latitude ionosphere as observed in search-coil magnetometer data. This work led to two first-author publications: "Pi1B propagation in the high-latitude ionosphere" (doi 10.1029/2011JA017127), and "Spectral enhancements associated with Pi1B events observed at high latitude" (doi: 10.1029/2012JA017940).
Matt is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Astronomy at Boston University.
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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. |
