The magnetospheric physics group is actively contributing to several missions to explore the magnetospheres of Earth (Cluster, Polar) and Jupiter (Galileo). Members of the Group investigate data from operating missions, from archival sources and are also engaged in theoretical studies, computer simulations, and phenomenological studies closely focused on understanding the data obtained from spacecraft measurements. Active on the Galileo team are Professor Margaret G. Kivelson (Magnetometer P.I.), Dr. Raymond J. Walker (Magnetometer Co-I.), Dr. Krishan K. Khurana (proposed Magnetometer Co-I), Professor Christopher T. Russell (Magnetometer Co-I.), Zhi Wang (Researcher), Todd King (Principal Programmer Analyst), Steven P. Joy (Programmer Analyst), Janet Green (Data Processor), Dr. Debbie Huddleston (researcher), Joseph D. Means (Principal Development Engineer) and Robert C. Snare (Principal Engineer, Emeritus). Professor Margaret Kivelson (Co-I on the FGM), Dr. Krishan K. Khurana, and Larry Kepko (student) are associated with the Cluster magnetometer team. They contributed to the initial calibration strategy development prior to the accident that destroyed the origional spacecraft quartet. They will resume the Cluster activities when Cluster II is launched. Work in data analysis, theory and simulation were carried out by the senior members of the Group, visiting scientist Professor David J. Southwood of Imperial College, London, and students or junior visitors Dingan Xu, Ming Cao, Gerard Blanchard, Alexis Prevost (Orsay University, France), Frederick Terracher (Orsay University, France), and Martin Stellmacher (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany). Members of the Space Science Center have long campaigned to obtain NASA support for systematic archiving of spacecraft and related data and development of distribution services to allow the entire space physics community to benefit from the availability of the data. In recent years this effort has borne fruit. Dr. Raymond J. Walker has led a team responsible for managing the data archiving activity for the planetary plasma physics community and with assisting parallel developments in other parts of the space physics community.

Last Update: July 27, 1998