My principal scientifc interest is in the study of coronal mass ejections (solar storms) and their interaction with Earth for the purposes of space weather studies. I work extensively with the STEREO mission to drive new understandings into the evolutionary effects of CMEs.
I am recently focusing more towards the Research to Operations (R2O) segments of space weather forecasting and am developing further a new tool to predict the Bz inside CMEs (i.e., forecasting the magnetic vectors). I do this through contracts with UMBC and collaborating closely with collegues at JHU/APL.
Solar storms start their lives as violent explosions from the sun’s surface. They’re made up of energetic charged particles wrapped in a complex magnetic cloud... Read More