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Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics Activity Report 2015 University of Colorado at Boulder 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS LASP: A Brief History ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 A Message from the Director ----------------------------------------------------------- 3 LASP Organization Chart --------------------------------------------------------------- 4 LASP Appropriated Funding ----------------------------------------------------------- 5 LASP Scientists -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Visiting Scholars ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Engineering/Mission Ops/Administration -------------------------------------------- 7 Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Collaborators ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Emirates Mars Mission Collaborators ------------------------------------------------- 12 2012 Retirees ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 2012 Ph.D. Graduate --------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Graduate Students ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13 Undergraduate Students ----------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Faculty Scientific Research Interests -------------------------------------------------- 16 Faculty Activities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21 Faculty Honors/Awards ----------------------------------------------------------------- 39 Courses Taught by LASP Faculty ----------------------------------------------------- 40 Colloquia and Informal Talks ---------------------------------------------------------- 41 Publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44 Works in Progress ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 54 Talks Presented at Scientific Meetings ------------------------------------------------ 58 Talks To Public Groups ----------------------------------------------------------------- 76 Sponsored Programs --------------------------------------------------------------------- 78 LASP: A Brief History In 1946-47, a handful of American universities joined with the military and with industry to initiate the era of space exploration. The University of Colorado was one of those pioneering universities. The first experiments to be performed in space were lofted by sub-orbital rockets. A key obstacle to these first rocket flights was providing a stabilized platform for cameras and other experiments. With support from the Naval Research Center and the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (now the Phillips Laboratory), the University of Colorado formed a research group called the Upper Air Laboratory (UAL) to solve this problem. Their solution – called the biaxial pointing platform – cleared the way for some of the first major scientific discoveries made in space. Researchers and engineers from the UAL flew experiments into space on over 50 rocket flights before Sputnik. By 1965, the UAL had grown substantially. Along with this growth came a new building on campus and a new name: the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. The public is invited to tour our facility and to observe the work that LASP does today. 2 A Message from the Director The history of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been recounted by many different people in many ways. Most such retelling of the story includes early rocket-based research within the Physics Department of the University of Colorado. The founding of the Upper Air Laboratory in the late 1940s and the transition to what is now known as LASP in the 1950s have been watershed moments. The evolution from those early days to the present level and scope of LASP research and infrastructure has been quite amazing. This annual report tells a bit of the LASP story, focused on the last year or so. Research in atmospheric science, planetary exploration, and solar and space physics has met major milestones and returned remarkable results. Engineering, data systems, and mission operations parts of the Laboratory have had wonderful successes as well. Underpinning all of this has been the education and training mission of LASP that is preparing new generations of students for the worldwide space workforce. I commend to each reader of this report the stories told by our LASP publications, seminars and lectures, and our novel investigations. While we focus often – and appropriately – on space flight programs, I emphasize strongly how important our theory, modeling, and data analysis efforts are. This core scientific work is the foundation on which all else is built. In previous reports, I have emphasized the unique role LASP plays on the national and international stage. I believe more than ever that academic research is at the core of a successful world space program. This fact must be fully acknowledged by policy makers, by business leaders, and by academic institutions themselves. I have contended that there should be a reaffirmation of a commitment to space research in the academic setting. LASP remains ready to do all it can to make this commitment a reality. LASP succeeds by having the support of CU and its people. I especially want to thank the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Provost, and the Chancellor for their unflinching support of LASP and its mission. I thank very much the people in contracts administration, procurement, facilities management, and other key areas that help us do our unique job. I also thank the staff, faculty, and students of LASP for their tireless work. Finally, special thanks go to Ann Alfaro for her careful efforts in preparing this report for 2015. Daniel N. Baker Please visit LASP's Website for the latest developments: http://lasp.colorado.edu 3 4 LASP Appropriated Funding During the period 1/1/2015 to 12/31/2015 LASP appropriated funding totaled $69,794,505 for support of 147 grants and contracts. Source of Funding Total Grant Dollars Federal Agencies: Jet Propulsion Laboratory 3,415,045 Los Alamos National Laboratory 33,270 NASA 7,053,264 NASA Ames 1,423,901 NASA Goddard 30,493,758 NASA Headquarters 418,156 National Science Foundation 500,150 Space Telescope Science Institute 342,593 Non-Federal Agencies: Ball Aerospace Systems Division 1,346,991 Blue Canyon Technologies LLC 52 Carnegie Institution of Washington 540,000 Global Science and Technology, Inc 20,833 Hampton University 1,085,090 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 3,415,045 Johns Hopkins University 357,451 Lockheed Martin Corporation 164,828 Los Alamos National Laboratory 33,270 National Ecological Observatory Network 15,000 Net-Centric Design Professionals (NDP) 88,007 Planetary Science Institute 35,000 Prisma Basic Research, Inc. 80,570 Research Foundation of State University of New York (SUNY) 89,212 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) 4,707,220 Space Science Institute 18,105 Stellar Solutions 24,859 University Corporation of Atmospheric Research 46,670 University of Arizona 4,163 University of California Berkeley 1,221,532 University of California Los Angeles 59,559 University of Central Florida 14,650,000 University of Iowa 125,273 University of Maryland at College Park 67,647 University of Minnesota 200,000 University of New Hampshire 1,073,417 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 92,888 Grand Total 69,794,505 5 Daniel N. Baker, Director LASP Scientists Tenure Track: Laila Anderssen Tom McCollom David Brain Klaus-Michael Aye Kevin McGouldrick Axel Brandenburg Frances Bagenal David Malaspina Benjamin Brown Timothy A. Cassidy Jose Marino Steven Cranmer Odele Coddington Steven Massie Robert Ergun Frank Crary Aimee Merkel Larry W. Esposito Vincent Dols Mikki M. Osterloo Kevin France Scot Elkington William Peterson Mihály Horányi Francis G. Eparvier Ganna Portyankina Brian Hynek Stefan Eriksson Erik C. Richard Bruce M. Jakosky Xiaohua Fang Thomas Rimmele Sasha Kempf Jerald W. Harder Martin Snow Adam Kowalski Lynn Harvey Miodrag Sremcevic Xinlin Li Greg Holsclaw Glen R. Stewart Peter Pilewskie Sean Hsu Karlheinz Trattner Cora E. Randall Allison Jaynes Weichao Tu Mark P. Rast Andrew Jones Maria Usanova Sebastian Schmidt Lars Kalnajs Xu Wang Nicholas M. Schneider Bruce Kindel Frederick Wilder Zoltan Sternovsky Michael King Robert J. Wilson Owen B. Toon Greg Kopp Eric T. Wolf Wenlong Liu Thomas N. Woods Research Scientist: Brian McClellan Yunqian Zhu Nicole Albers William E. McClintock Visiting Scholars Gianna Cauzzi, National Institute for Astrophysics, Florence, Italy Eberhard Grün, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany Antal Juhasz, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary Robert McPherron, UCLA, IGPP, Los Angeles, CA Jim McTiernan, UC, Berkeley, CA Joseph Michalski, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ Wayne Pryor, Central Arizona Coolidge, Coolidge, AZ Theodore Sarris, Department of Physics University of Athens, Athens Greece Harry Warren, National Research Laboratory 6 Engineering/Mission Ops/Administration/Science Engineering Scott Gurst Shashank Pasupuleti Laura Hale Nicholas Patzer Nicholas Aberle David Hall Norman C. Perish Gregg Allison Jeffrey Hanel Scott Piggott Christine Andrews David Harber Brian Pramann Mike Anfinson Kelly Hepburn Amal Chandran Rory Barrett Karl Heuerman
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