ERIC GRIMES
(PRINCIPAL SCI SW DEV)
| Email: | eric.grimes@nasa.gov |
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| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 672 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | ADNET SYSTEMS INC |
Positions/Employment
Principal Scientific Software Developer
ADNET Systems, Inc, Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
2023 - Present
Applications Programmer IV
UCLA, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics - Los Angeles, CA
2012 - 2023
Graduate Research Assistant (Space Physics)
Auburn University, Department of Physics - Auburn, AL
2008 - 2012
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Space Physics)
Auburn University, Department of Physics - Auburn, AL
2006 - 2008
Undergraduate Research Assistant (HWIL Simulations)
Auburn University, Department of Aerospace Engineering - Auburn, AL
May 2007 - August 2007
NASA Space Grant Internship (Spacecraft Systems Engineering)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA
June 2006 - August 2006
Education
M.S., Physics, Auburn University - Auburn, AL, 2012
B.Eng., Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University - Auburn, AL, 2008
Publications
Refereed
2022. "The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System in Python.", Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9 [10.3389/fspas.2022.1020815] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "HAPI: An API Standard for Accessing Heliophysics Time Series Data.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126 (12): [10.1029/2021ja029534] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Long and Active Magnetopause Reconnection X‐Lines During Changing IMF Conditions.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126 (4): [10.1029/2020ja028926] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "The ELFIN Mission.", Space Science Reviews, 216 (5): 103 [10.1007/s11214-020-00721-7] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System (SPEDAS).", Space Science Reviews, 215 (1): 9 [10.1007/s11214-018-0576-4] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The Transition Between Antiparallel and Component Magnetic Reconnection at Earth's Dayside Magnetopause.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123 (12): [10.1029/2018ja026081] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "The MMS Dayside Magnetic Reconnection Locations During Phase 1 and Their Relation to the Predictions of the Maximum Magnetic Shear Model.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122 (12): [10.1002/2017ja024488] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of magnetic reconnection associated with Kelvin‐Helmholtz waves.", Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (11): 5606-5615 [10.1002/2016gl068783] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "The response time of the magnetopause reconnection location to changes in the solar wind: MMS case study.", Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (10): 4673-4682 [10.1002/2016gl068554] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Comparison of TWINS and THEMIS observations of proton pitch angle distributions in the ring current during the 29 May 2010 geomagnetic storm.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 118 (8): 4895-4905 [10.1002/jgra.50455] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Evolution of CIR storm on 22 July 2009.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 117 (A9): [10.1029/2012ja017572] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Global observations of ring current dynamics during corotating interaction region–driven geomagnetic storms in 2008.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 115 (A11): [10.1029/2010ja015409] [Journal Article/Letter]
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Other
Annual Report from Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)
October 2025
International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) Meeting (2025), San Antonio, TX. Presented on behalf of SPDF leadership due to government shutdown.
Introducing the NASA/SPDF ISTP Metadata Editor: A Browser-Based Tool for Data File Creation and Validation
October 2025
Data, Analysis, and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) Workshop (2025), San Antonio, TX.
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Metadata Tools
October 2024
Workshop for Collaborative and Open-Source Science Data Systems II, Boulder, CO
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Metadata Guidelines & Tools
September 2024
International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) Meeting (virtual)
Searching for (non-Solar) Data in Heliophysics
May 2024
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Summer School (virtual)
Data Analysis Enabled by the Space Physics Data Facility
May 2024
Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Workshop, San Diego, CA
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) metadata guidelines and their use at the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)
March 2024
Workshop for Collaborative and Open-Source Science Data Systems, Boulder, CO
Computational notebooks for accessing and analyzing data at the Space Physics Data Facility
September 2023
Data, Analysis, and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) Workshop, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Analyzing MMS Data with PySPEDAS
May 2023
GEM Workshop, San Diego, CA
Particle Tools in The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System in Python (PySPEDAS)
December 2022
Fall AGU Meeting, Chicago, IL
SPEDAS / PySPEDAS
December 2022
Mini-GEM Workshop, Chicago, IL
PySPEDAS/PyTplot for Solar Physicists
March 2022
Predictive Science Inc, San Diego, CA
PySPEDAS Tutorial
December 2022
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Summer School (virtual)
PySPEDAS update
December 2022
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting
PySPEDAS
December 2022
MMS Community Science Workshop, Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FL
Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with PySPEDAS
December 2021
Webinar: Special MMS Plasma Webinar on FPI/HPCA Analysis using SPEDAS
March 2021
Webinar: PySPEDAS Development
February 2021
PySPEDAS tutorial
December 2021
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Fall Meeting
PySPEDAS updates
December 2021
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting
Python for IDL developers
December 2021
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting
PySPEDAS: Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software in Python
October 2020
International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) Meeting (virtual)
Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with IDL SPEDAS
September 2020
Introduction to PySPEDAS 1.0
July 2020
Magnetosphere Seminar Series (virtual)
Webinar: PySPEDAS 1.0 tutorial
May 2020
Webinar: MMS Data in SPEDAS
April 2020
Access to Space Science Data using PySPEDAS!
December 2020
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Fall Meeting (virtual)
Python for Scientific Software Developers
December 2020
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting (virtual)
PySPEDAS: Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software in Python
December 2019
Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Webinar: MMS Data in Python with PySPEDAS
December 2019
Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS
September 2019
Webinar: MMS flipbookify - adding 2D distribution slices to arbitrary tplot windows
May 2019
Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS (and PySPEDAS)
May 2019
GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
Webinar: MMS Data in Python with PySPEDAS
March 2019
MMS in PySPEDAS Updates
December 2019
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting
PySPEDAS
December 2019
MMS Community Science Workshop, Yosemite, CA
Webinar: Special MMS Plasma Webinar on FPI/HPCA Analysis using SPEDAS - Updated
November 2018
Webinar: Tplot Essentials with MMS Data
August 2018
Webinar: MMS flipbookify - adding 2D distribution slices to arbitrary tplot windows
July 2018
Webinar: Special Webinar on FIELDS Analysis with SPEDAS
February 2018
PySPEDAS, a Python Implementation of SPEDAS
December 2018
Fall AGU Meeting, Washington, D.C.
HAPI Updates to the Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software
December 2018
Fall AGU Meeting, Washington, D.C.
PySPEDAS
December 2018
Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Working Group Meeting
Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS
December 2018
GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
MMS in SPEDAS
December 2018
MMS Community Science Workshop, Bergen, Norway
Webinar: Special MMS plasma webinar on FPI/HPCA with SPEDAS
November 2017
Webinar: Analyzing MMS data with SPEDAS
August 2017
MMS Data with SPEDAS
December 2017
Mini-GEM Workshop, New Orleans, LA
Webinar: Analyzing MMS data with SPEDAS - EIS/FEEPS
October 2016
Webinar: MMS Plasma (FPI/HPCA) Webinar
September 2016
MMS plug-ins for SPEDAS: Access, analysis and visualization, in conjunction with other Heliophysics assets
December 2016
MMS Community Science Workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Using MMS Data with SPEDAS
December 2016
GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
SPEDAS: A framework for supporting multi-mission data analysis and visualization
December 2014
GEM Workshop, Portsmouth, VA
THEMIS Data Analysis Software (TDAS) v9.00
December 2014
GEM Workshop, Portsmouth, VA
Simultaneous Global Observations of Ring Current Dynamics
December 2012
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Tokyo, Japan
Ring Current Pressure Profiles During Geomagnetic Storms as Observed by TWINS
December 2011
Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA
TWINS ENA Observations of Ring Current Dynamics During an ICME-driven Geomagnetic Storm on 6 April 2010
December 2010
Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Recent TWINS Observations of Proton Injections During Weak ICME-driven Geomagnetic Storms
December 2010
UAH Workshop on Partially Ionized Plasmas, Nashville, TN
Deconvolved Ring Current Ion Intensities from TWINS Stereo ENA Images of the Earth’s Magnetosphere
December 2009
Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Seeing the Plasma Sheet with ENAs
December 2008
Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA
ICME and CIR Geomagnetic Storms as Seen by ENA Images and Ring Current Distributions
December 2007
Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Three-Dimensional Visualization of Pitch Angle Distributions in the Magnetosphere
December 2007
4th Annual University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Auburn, AL
Applying Practical Systems Engineering to University Small Satellites
December 2007
4th Annual CubeSat Workshop, Huntington Beach, CA
AubieSat: Auburn’s First Student Built Satellite
December 2006
3rd Annual CubeSat Workshop, San Luis Obispo, CA
The Mars Student Climate Lander (MSCL)
December 2006
Alabama Space Grant Scholars and Fellows Annual Awards Banquet, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL