| participating institutions > university of california, berkeley |
The University of California, Berkeley is the lead institution
of the Solar MURI project. The UC Berkeley team is based at the university's
Space Sciences Laboratory.
institution information:
scientist information:
- Dr. George Fisher
A Senior Fellow at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory,
Dr. Fisher is the Principal Investigator of the Solar MURI project.
His responsibilities to Solar MURI include the primary management of the project, and
ensuring that collaboration between institutions occurs effectively. In addition, he is
actively involved in research on the formation of delta-spot
active regions and how these active regions lead to eruptive flares and
fast CMEs.
- Dr. Janet Luhmann
Dr. Luhmann is a Senior Fellow with a wide range of experience in solar physics and
space physics. She is performing research on coronal field modeling and geoeffects
in collaboration with Steve Ledvina (UC Berkeley), Todd Hoeksema and Xue Pu Zhao (Stanford University), and
Dusan Odstrcil (University of Colorado).
- Dr. Hugh Hudson
Dr. Hugh Hudson is a senior research scientist at
the UC Berkeley Space Sciences
Laboratory with extensive experience in solar X-ray observations
and solar irradiance variability in particular. In addition to his ongoing research in CMEs, he
is involved with RHESSI data analysis, keeping a special eye
on the question of coronal and solar-wind field connectivity
as characterized by high-energy particles. He also maintains
a Web-based archive of flare/CME cartoons and has written many Yohkoh SXT
"science nuggets".
- Dr. Bill Abbett
An assistant research scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory.
He is performing numerical simulations of active region emergence in order to determine
its role in eruptive phenomena. He is collaborating with
Peter MacNeice (Drexel University) on the incorporation of adaptive mesh refinement into an updated version of the ZEUS 3D MHD
code. He also has a really cool radio-controlled Bart Simpson skateboard. Bill also excels in the ability to consume vast quantities of diet Pepsi during the
course of an average day.
- Dr. Brian Welsch
A recent graduate of Montana State University, Dr. Welsch is a
MURI-specific postdoctoral researcher who studies the structure and
evolution of coronal magnetic fields.
In addition to working with researchers at SSL, his work includes
collaborations with the Naval Research Lab's
Drs. Antiochos & Linton, in the
Solar Theory Section,
and Dr. DeVore, in the
Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.
- Dr. Steve Ledvina
Dr. Ledvina is a postdoctoral researcher who recently completed his dissertation in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas. He is working with Janet
Luhmann (UC Berkeley) on large scale coronal field evolution, as well as research on
geoeffects.
- Dr. Yan Li
An Assistant research scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory.
She is collaborating with Xue Pu Zhao, Yang Liu and Todd Hoeksema
(Stanford University) on photospheric magnetograms, and
working with Janet Luhmann (UC Berkeley) on solar magnetic
field changes in relation to CMEs and geoeffects research.
- Prof. Bob Lin
Prof. Lin is currently the director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, and has over
thirty years experience in solar and space physics research with more than 320 publications. He is
collaborating with Martin Lee (University of New Hampshire) on the observed and
theoretical properties of SEP acceleration and propagation. He is
also Principal Investigator of NASA's HESSI mission, and developed
much of the instrumentation for the WIND mission.
- Ms. Loraine Lundquist
Ms. Lundquist is a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Physics Department. She is pursuing
a PhD thesis under George Fisher's supervision on large scale solar magnetic field evolution.
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