MAGNETOSPHERIC THEORY AND SIMULATION

Welcome to the webpage of the magnetospheric theory and simulation group of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

INTRODUCTION TO MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

Professors:

Antonius Otto

• Plasma physics theory and 2-3D MHD simulations

• Ph.D -thesis advisor for graduate students Eric Adamson, Fred Hall, and John Styers.

• Teaching graduate -level space physics classes (Numerical simulations in fluid and plasma, etc.) at UAF. 

Heinz Wiechen

• Plasma physics theory and 2-3D MHD simulations

• Teaching: Space physics and plasma physics (grad level)

RESEARCHERS IN OUR GROUP:

Graduate students:

Fred Hall

(M. Sc  in Plasma Physics 1995 at the University of Colorado, Ph.D Candidate in  Space Physics  at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

• Current sheet thinning in the late growth phase of magnetospheric substorms

John Styers

(M.Sc in Theoretical Physics 1995 at SUNY-Binghamton, M.Sc in Computational Physics 2004 at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Pursuing Ph.D in Space Physics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
 

• Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

Eric Adamson

Recent Graduates

Katariina Nykyri

(Ph.D in Physics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
 

• Processes at the magnetospheric boundary layer's and cusp: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and reconnection

Vincent Dols

  (M.Sc  in Space Physics 2001 at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
 

• Processes at the Jovian  magnetosphere