I've a Civil Servant Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. My research focuses on wave/particle interactions and the impacts of energetic electron precipitation on the ionosphere/atmosphere system using data from satellites, sounding rockets, and ground-based instrumentation.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2008, studying the propagation of chorus waves under Dr. Craig Kletzing. From 2008 until 2021 I was a Research Scientist at the University of Minnesota, and from 2011 until 2019 I was a member of the Van Allen Probes Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) team, providing data, analysis, calibration, and production of electric and magnetic field data. A large focus of this effort was spent on collaborations with other teams including the BARREL balloon missions.
Past projects include the study of lightning- and transmitter-generated whistler mode waves and their strong coupling to low altitude density irregularities, whistler mode waves in the solar wind, cyclotron harmonic waves at the bow shock, the large-scale coupling of different plasma regions in response to external solar wind driving and ultra-low frequency waves.