Maria Kathleen Salazar

Maria Kathleen Salazar

Year 2022-2023 Research Description Improving model simulations of biogeochemical cycles in Earth System models. Integrating satellite observations with model simulations to constrain important processes in the Earth System, including that of carbon dioxide and other...
Yifu An

Yifu An

Year 2021-2022 Research Description Modeling space physics and predicting space weather with a combination of first-principles models, machine learning and data assimilation.
Alicia Petersen

Alicia Petersen

Year 2018-2019 Research Description Characterization of interpalanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) as they propagate outward from the Sun through the inner heliosphere. ICMEs are massive ejections of solar plasma and energy resulting from explosive magnetic...
Samar Minallah

Samar Minallah

Year 2018-2019 Research Description Hydrometeorology, Hydro-meteorological Hazards, Atmospheric components of the water cycle.

Hongyan Zhou

Year 2015-2016 Research Description Coupled Kinetic-Fluid Simulations of Ganymede’s Magnetosphere and Hybrid Parallelization of the Magnetohydrodynamics Model.

Shaosui Xu

Year 2015-2016 Research Description Superthermal Electrons at Mars: Photoelectrons, Solar Wind Electrons, and Dust Storm Influences.

Lois Smith

Year 2015-2016 Research Description Data Analysis of the High-Energy Ion Tail in Earth’s Plasmasphere.

Chuanfei Dong

Year 2015-2016 Research Description Space Weather at Mars: 3-D Studies Using One-way Coupling Between the Multi-fluid MHD, M-GITM and M-AMPS Models.
Alanah Cardenas-O’Toole

Alanah Cardenas-O’Toole

Year 2021-2022 Research Description Scientific computing techniques to understand the solar atmosphere dynamics and its impact on the Earth’s ionosphere. She will utilize both advanced data analysis methods and numerical models in her...