Heliophysics Science Division
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Dr. Dana Hurley Crider


The Catholic University of America
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center



Present Positions
Assistant Research Professor, The Catholic University of America
Instructor, University of Maryland

Education
Ph.D. Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1999
M.S. Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1996
B.A. Physics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1993

Research Interests
Dr. Crider's research interests include the solar wind interaction with sundry planetary bodies. Most recently, she has worked with data from the Mars Global Surveyor Magnetometer/Electron Reflectometer to understand the solar wind flow around Mars and its crustal magnetization. She has also simulated the effects of the solar wind bombardment of the lunar surface and applied it to the production and migration of water vapor to cold traps at the lunar poles.

Experience
1999-2001 NRC Resident Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1994-1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Rice University

Academic Awards
1996-1999 NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellow
1995 NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellow
1995 William F. Marlar Scholar

Publications

  • Crider, D., M. Acu�a, J. Connerney, D. Mitchell, R. Lin, P. Cloutier, H. R�me, C. Mazelle, D. Brain, N. Ness, and S. Bauer. Magnetic field draping around Mars: Mars Global Surveyor Results, Adv. Sp. Res., 27, 11, 1831-1836, 2001.
  • Crider, D.H., P.A. Cloutier, C.C. Law, P.W. Walker, Y. Chen, M.H. Acu�a, J.E.P. Connerney, D.L. Mitchell, R.P. Lin, K.A. Anderson, C.W. Carlson, J. McFadden, H. R�me, C. Mazelle, C. d'Uston, J.A. Sauvaud, D. Vignes, N.F. Ness, and D.A. Brain. Evidence of electron impact ionization in the magnetic pileup boundary of Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1, 45-48, 2000.
  • Vignes, D., C. Mazelle, H. R�me, M.H. Acu�a, J.E.P. Connerney, R.P.Lin, D.L. Mitchell, P. Cloutier, D.H. Crider, and N.F. Ness. The solar wind interaction with Mars: Locations and shapes of the bow shock and the magnetic pileup boundary from the observations of the MAG/ER experiment onboard Mars Global Surveyor, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1, 49-52, 2000.
  • Mitchell, D.L., R.P. Lin, H. R�me, D.H. Crider, P.A. Cloutier, J.E.P. Connerney, M.H. Acu�a, and N. F. Ness. Oxygen Auger electrons observed in Mars' ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 13, 1871-1874, 2000.
  • Crider, D.H. and R. R. Vondrak. The solar wind as a possible source of lunar polar hydrogen deposits, J. Geophys. Res., 105 , E11 , 26773, 2000.
  • Cloutier, P.A., Y. Chen, D.H. Crider, C.C. Law, P.W. Walker, M.H. Acu�a, J.E.P. Connerney, R.P. Lin, K.A. Anderson, D.L. Mitchell, C.W. Carlson, J. McFadden, D.A. Brain, H. R�me, C. Mazelle, J.A. Sauvaud, C. d'Uston, D. Vignes, S.J. Bauer, and N.F. Ness. Venus-like interaction of the solar wind with Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2685-2688, 1999.

    in press
  • Crider, D.H. and R.R. Vondrak. Hydrogen implantation and migration by solar wind bombardment of the Moon, accepted to Adv. Sp. Res.
  • Brain, D. A., F. Bagenal, M. H. Acu�a, J. E. P. Connerney, D. H. Crider, C. Mazelle, D. L. Mitchell, and N. F. Ness. Observations of low frequency electromagnetic plasma waves upstream from the Martian shock by MGS MAG, accepted to J. Geophys. Res.
  • Crider, D. H., M. H. Acu�a, J. E. P. Connerney, N. F. Ness, A. M. Krymskii, T. K. Breus, D. Vignes, H. R�me, C. Mazelle, D. L. Mitchell, R,.P. Lin, P. A. Cloutier, and D. Winterhalter. Observations of the latitude dependence of the location of the Martian magnetic pileup boundary, accepted to GRL.