RESUME
Name: Wladislaw B. Lyatsky
Address: Box 447, Alabama
A&M University, Normal, AL 35762 E-mail: lyatsky@unb.ca
AREA OF RESEARCH: Solar-Terrestrial and
Space physics
Date
and place of Birth: July 5, 1939, St-Petersburg, Russia
EDUCATION
1964 - M. Sc., Physics of
Atmosphere, St-Petersburg State University, Russia
1968 - Ph. D., Space Physics,
St-Petersburg State University, Russia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
From 5/2001- visiting
professor at the Alabama A+M University, Huntsville, Al.
4/1999-5/2001: visiting
scientist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
2/1998-3/1999: visiting
scientist at the Institute for Space Research, University of Calgary, Canada
1990-2000:\240 head of laboratory for Magnetosphere and
Ionosphere Physics at PGI, Apatity, Russia
1970-1990:\240 head of Theoretical Group at PGI, Apatity,
Russia
1968-1970:\240 Research Scientist at the Polar Geophysical
Institute (PGI), Apatity, Russia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
In different years, teaching
in a special school for gifted children, lectures on Geophysics and Space
Physics for PhD students and young scientists (many years),
supervision graduate and
post-graduate students.
Recent
postgraduate advisees for four last years:
Dr.
Alexander E. Kozlovsky, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;
email:
kozlovsk@skynet.oulu.fi
Dr. Anatoly B. Pashin, Polar Geophysical Institute, Apatity,
Russia;
email:\240 Pashin@pgi.kolasc.net.ru
Dr. Vladimir V. Safargaleev, Polar Geophysical Institute, Apatity,
Russia;
email:\240
Safar@pgi.kolasc.net.ru
Dr. Evgenia G. Belova, Institute for Space
Research, Kiruna, Sweden;
email: belova@irf.se
Leonid V. Benkevich, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Canada;
email: benkevitch@dansas.usask.ca
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Presentations
at Conferences:
The 5-th International
Conference on Substorm, St-Petersburg, Russia, 2000;
the Chapman Conference on
Space Weather, Clearwater, FL, 2000.
the AGU Fall meeting, San
Francisco, 1999;
the EISCAT workshop,
Wernigerode, Germany, 1999;
the AGU Fall meeting, San
Francisco, 1998;
the IAGA Assembly, Uppsala,
1997,
the AGU Spring meeting,
Baltimore, 1997;
the AGU Spring meeting,
Baltimore, 1996;
the Gordon Research
Conference, 1996;
the GEM conference,
Colorado, 1996;
the third International
Conference on Substorm, Versailles, France, 1996;
and others.
Invited Reports (from 2000):
APL/Johns Hopkins University,
May 2001 (expected),
University of Maryland,
February 2000,
APL/Johns Hopkins
University, January 2000,
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, April, 2000.
University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario, July, 2000.
\240
Other Activity:
Member of AGU from 1996, Referee
for different journals,
Co-Editor for the monograph \223Physics of Auroral Phenomena\224,
Leningrad, Nauka, 1988.\240\240
Head of scientific seminars
at PGI, Russia (many years).
RESEARCH GRANTS
Principal Investigator,
grants from Russian Foundation for Basic Research (many years)
Principal Investigator, a
grant from International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland,
1997.
CO-PI, a SCOSTEP grant, 1996.
Principal Investigator, a
SOROS grant, 1994.
Investigator, a grant for a
work with the Interball UV auroral imager, 1998-1999 (PI - L. Cogger, U of
Calgary).
Investigator, a grant for
Superdarn radar data analysis, 2000 (PI \226 George Sofko, U of\240 Saskatchewan).
PUBLICATIONS: over
120 referred publications, 18 from 1999
Recent publications from 1997
Lyatsky, W., P. T. Newell,
and A. M. Hamza, Solar Illumination as Cause of the Equinoctial Preference for
Geomagnetic Activity, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
accepted 2001.
Lyatsky, W.,
and A. M. Hamza, Possible role of ion
demagnetization in the plasma sheet in auroral arc and substorm generation,
Space
Sc. Rev., 95 (1/2),
373-385, 2001.
Lyatsky, W., L.
L. Cogger, B. Jackel, A. M. Hamza, W. J. Hughes, D. Murr, and Ole Rasmussen, Substorm development as observed by Interball UV
imager and 2-D magnetic array, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., accepted
2001.
Lyatsky, W.,
and A. M. Hamza, Seasonal and diurnal variations of geomagnetic activity and
their role in Space Weather forecast, Canad.
J. Phys., in press 2001.
Lyatsky, W.,
and A. M. Hamza, A possible role of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling in
auroral arc generation, Ann. Geophys., 18, 1108-1117, 2000.
Benkevich, L.,
W. Lyatsky, and L. L. Cogger, Field-aligned currents between conjugate
hemispheres, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 27,727- 27,738, 2000.
Benkevich, L.,
and W. Lyatsky, Detached vortices in equivalent ionospheric currents
in the winter dayside ionosphere, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 27, 1375-1378, 2000.
Hamza, A. M.,
M. Huber, W. Lyatsky, A. V. Kustov, and G. J. Sofko, Eastward convection jet at
the poleward boundary of the nightside auroral oval, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2809-2812, 2000.
Kustov, A. V.,
W. B. Lyatsky, G. J. Sofko, and L. Xu, Field-aligned currents in the polar cap
at small IMF Bz and By inferred from SuperDARN radar observations, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 205-214, 2000.
Safargaleev,
V., W. B. Lyatsky, N. G. J. Gazey, P. N. Smith and V. Kriviliov, The response
of the azimuthal component of ionospheric electric field to auroral arc
brightening, Ann. Geophys., 18, 65-73, 2000.
Safargaleev,
V., W. Lyatsky, P. Smith, V. Kriviliov, N. Gazey, Y. Manninen, K. Kauristi, T.
Turunen, and A. Kozlovsky, Variations of the azimuthal component of the
ionospheric electric field before and during auroral breakups, Geomagn. Aeron., 40, 39-45, 2000.
Lyatsky, W., A.
V. Kustov, G. J. Sofko, B. Jacobsen, D. Andre, and L. L. Cogger, Ionospheric
convection and equivalent ionospheric currents in the dayside high-latitude
winter ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 22,525-22,534, 1999.
Lyatsky, W., A
possible role of ion demagnetization in substorm generation, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 19,905-19,910,
1999.
Lyatsky, W. B.,
G. J. Sofko, A. V. Kustov, D. Andre, W. J. Hughes, and D. Murr, Travelling
convection vortices as seen by the SuperDARN HF radars, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 2591-2602, 1999.
Lyatsky, W., R.
D. Elphinstone, Q. Pao, and L. L. Cogger, Field line resonance interference
model for multiple auroral arc generation, J.
Geophys. Res., 104, 263-268, 1999.
Kozlovsky, A.,
and W. Lyatsky, Finite ion Larmor radius convection instability in the
near-Earth plasma sheet, J. Geophys.
Res., 104, 2443-2450, 1999.
Trondsen, T.
S., W. Lyatsky, L. L. Cogger, and J. S. Murphree, Interplanetary magnetic field
by control of dayside auroras, J. Atmos.
Solar-Terr. Phys., 61, 829 - 840,
1999.
Kustov, A. V.,
W. B. Lyatsky, and G. J. Sofko, Super Dual Auroral Radar network observations
of near-noon plasma convection at small interplanetary magnetic field Bz and
By, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 4041-4050,
1998.
Lyatsky, W. B.,
and D. G. Sibeck, Central plasma sheet disruption and the formation of
poleward-moving auroral events, J.
Geophys. Res., 102, 17,625-17,630, 1997.
Lyatsky, W. B.,
and D. G. Sibeck, Surface waves on the low-latitude boundary layer inner edge
and travelling convection vortices, J.
Geophys. Res., 102, 17,643-17,647, 1997.
Lyatsky, W. B.,
and D. G. Sibeck, What are the dayside auroras? Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 22, 741-746, 1997.
Kozlovsky, A.
E., and W. B. Lyatsky, Alfven wave generation by disturbance of ionospheric conductivity
in the field-aligned current region, J.
Geophys. Res., 102, 17,297-17,303, 1997.
Safargaleev,
V., W. Lyatsky and V. Tagirov, Dynamics of parallel auroral arcs during
pseudo-breakup events, Ann. Geophys., 15,
959-966, 1997.
Pashin, A. B.,
and W. B. Lyatsky, On spectra of ionospheric conductivity variations during a
heating experiment, Radio Sci., 32,
1513-1522, 1997.
Belova, E., E.
Pchelkina, W. Lyatsky and A. Pashin, The effect of ionospheric inhomogeneity on
the magnetic pulsation polarization as a function of inhomogeneity magnitude, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 59, No 15,
1945-1952, 1997.
Belova, E., E.
Pchelkina, W. Lyatsky and A. Pashin, The effect of ionospheric inhomogeneity on
the magnetic pulsation polarization, J.
Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 59, No 12, 1425-1434, 1997.
Monographs
Lyatsky, W. B., Current Systems of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere
Disturbances, Leningrad, Nauka,
1978.
Lyatsky W. B., and Y. P.
Maltsev, Magnetosphere-ionosphere
Interaction, Moscow, Nauka,
1983.\240
Recent Collaborators: (last 3
years)
Dr. Patrick T. Newell,
APL/Johns Hopkins University, Laurel; email: NewelPT1@SPACEMSG.JHUAPL.edu
Dr. A. Surjalal Sharma,
Space & Plasma Physics Group, Department of Astronomy, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421 University of Maryland, College Park,
Md.; email: ssh@astro.umd.edu.
Dr. W. J. Hughes, Center
for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, Mass.; email: hughes@buasta.bu.edu
Dr. Leroy L. Cogger,
Institute for Space Research at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;
email: cogger@phys.ucalgary.ca.
Dr. George J. Sofko,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; email: Sofko@dansas.usask.ca;
Dr. Alexander V. Kustov,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; email: Kustov@dansas.usask.ca.
Dr. Trond S. Trondsen,
Institute for Space Research at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;
email: trondsen@phys.ucalgary.ca
Dr. A. M. Hamza, Physics
Dept., University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada; email: ahamza@unb.ca
Dr. Alexander E. Kozlovsky,
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; email: kozlovsk@skynet.oulu.fi