Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Kivelson

6843 Slichter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Phone: (310) 825-3435
FAX: (310) 206-8042
mkivelson@igpp.ucla.edu

Publications

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Other Things

Professor of Space Physics in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences
                                          and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Space Science Center), at UCLA.

Current space projects include Cluster (Fluxgate Magnetometer Co-Investigator) and Themis (Co-Investigator).

Principal scientific interests: Magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn (theory and data analysis),
               interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and moons, Ultra-low frequency waves  (theory, data collection, data analysis).   

Teaching:           Fall 2005         – ESS 154  Solar-Terrestrial Physics
                             Fall 2006         – ESS 295  Current Research in Earth and Space Sciences
                             ESS 193          – Undergraduate Journal Club Seminars: Earth and Space Sciences
                        Spring 2007    – ESS 240  Space Plasma Physics

Selected Lectures/Papers

 

 

A Century After Birkeland: Aurora and Related Phenomena at  Moons and Planets (Fall 2006)

ULF Waves from the Ionosphere to the Outer Planets (Fall 2005)

Extracurricular: Libya and the Solar Eclipse of March 29, 2006
 
Physics of Planetary Magnetospheres (Saxon Lecture, Winter 2004)

Careers, Leadership, and Speculations on why Academia Loses Women (Fall 2003)

Galilean Moons of Jupiter: Exploration of remote worlds (Winter 2001)

Planetary Magnetospheres for Physicists (Fall 2000)

1997 Faculty Research Lecture: From outer space to the ocean floor: Magnetic fields in the solar system.

Educational Background

 

 

Ph.D., 1957, Harvard University

Recent Awards

 

 

                      Alfvén Medal of the European Geophysical Union, Spring 2005

                      Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 2005

Selected Publications

                        Click on Publications at the top of this page for links to pdfs of these and other papers

 

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DuBois, D. F., V. Gilinsky, and M. G. Kivelson, Propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasmas, Phys. Rev., 129, 2376, 1962.

Kivelson, M. G., S. M. Kaye, and D. J. Southwood, The physics of plasma injection events, in Dynamics of the Magnetosphere, (S. I. Akasofu, Editor), D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 1979.

Kivelson, M.G. and D.J. Southwood, Coupling of global magnetospheric MHD eigenmodes to field line resonances, J. Geophys. Res., 91(A4), 4345-4351, 1986.

Kivelson, M. G., and D. J. Southwood, Coupling of global magnetospheric MHD eigenmodes to field line resonances, J. Geophys. Res., 91(A4), 4345-4351, 1986.

Kivelson, M.G., and H.E. Spence, On the possibility of quasi-static convection in the quiet magnetotail,  Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 1501, 1988.

Kivelson, M. G., L. F. Bargatze, K. K. Khurana, D. J. Southwood, R. J. Walker, and P. J. Coleman, Jr., Magnetic signatures near Galileo's closest approach to Gaspra, Science, 261, 331, 1993.

Chen, S.-H., M.G. Kivelson, J.T. Gosling, R.J. Walker, and A.J. Lazarus, Anomalous aspects of magnetosheath flow and of the shape and oscillation of the magnetopause during an interval of strongly northward interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 5727, 1993.

Kivelson, M.G., L.F. Bargatze, K.K. Khurana, D.J. Southwood, R.J. Walker, and P.J. Coleman, Jr., Magnetic signatures near Galileo’s closest approach to Gaspra, Science, 261, 331, 1993.

Kivelson, M.G., Z. Wang, S. Joy, K.K. Khurana, C. Polanskey, D.J. Southwood, and R.J. Walker, Solar wind interaction with small bodies: 2. What can Galileo’s detection of magnetic rotations tell us about Gaspra and Ida. Adv. In Space Res., 16, 59, 1995.

Kivelson, M.G., and S.H. Chen, The magnetopause: Surface waves and instabilities and their possible dynamical consequences, p. 257 in AGU Monograph 90, Physics of Magnetopause, edited by P.Song and B.U.O. Sonnerup, AGU, Washington, D.C., 1995

Kivelson, M.G., and K.K. Khurana, Models of flux ropes embedded in a Harris neutral sheet: Force free solutions in low and high beta plasmas, J. Geophys. Res., 100, December 1995.

Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, R.J. Walker, J.A. Linker, C.T. Russell, D.J. Southwood, and C. Polanskey, A magnetic signature at Io: Initial report from the Galileo magnetometer, Science, 273, 337, 1996.

Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, J. Warnecke, F.V. Coroniti, C. Polanskey, D.J. Southwood, and C. Schubert, Discovery of Ganymede's magnetic field by the Galileo spacecraft, Nature, 384, 537, 1996.

Kivelson, M.G, K.K. Khurana, C.T. Russell, and R.J. Walker, Intermittent short-duration plasma-field anomalies in the Io plasma torus: Evidence for interchange in the Io plasma torus?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2127, 1997.

Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, F.V. Coroniti, S. Joy, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, J. Warnecke, L. Bennett, and C. Polanskey, The magnetic field and magnetosphere of Ganymede, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2155, 1997.

Kivelson, M.G., M. Cao, R.L. McPherron, and R.J. Walker, A possible signature of magnetic cavity mode oscillations in ISEE spacecraft observations, J. Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, 49, 1079, 1997.

Kivelson, M.G., J. Warnecke, L. Bennett, S. Joy, K.K. Khurana, J.A. Linker, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, and C. Polanskey, Ganymede’s magnetosphere: Magnetometer overview, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 19,963, 1998.

Kivelson, M.G., and F. Bagenal, Planetary magnetospheres, The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, P. Weissman, L.-A. McFadden, and T. Johnson, Eds.-in-Chief, Academic Press, pp. 477, 1998.

Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, D.J. Stevenson, L. Bennett, S. Joy, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, C. Zimmer, and C. Polanskey, Europa and Callisto: Induced or intrinsic fields in a periodically varying plasma environment, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 4609, 1999.

Kivelson, M.G., Currents and flow in distant magnetospheres, edited by S. Ohtani, AGU Monograph, pp. 339, in Magnetospheric Current Systems, 2000.

Zimmer, C., K.K. Khurana, and M.G. Kivelson, Subsurface oceans on Europa and Callisto:  Constraints from Galileo magnetometer observations, ICARUS, 147, 329, 2000.

Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, C.T. Russell, M. Volwerk, R.J. Walker, and C. Zimmer, Galileo Magnetometer Measurements: A stronger case for a subsurface ocean at Europa, Science, 289, 1340, 2000.

Southwood, D.J., and M.G. Kivelson, A new perspective concerning the influence of the solar wind on the Jovian magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6123, 2001. 

Green, J., and M.G. Kivelson, A tale of two theories: How the adiabatic response and ULF waves affect relativistic electrons, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 25,777, 2001. 

Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, and M. Volwerk, The permanent and inductive magnetic moments of Ganymede, Icarus 157(2), 507, 2002.

Kivelson, M.G., and K.K. Khurana, Properties of the magnetic field in the Jovian magnetotail, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A8), 10.1029/2001JA000249, 2002.

Kivelson, M.G., and D.J. Southwood, First evidence of IMF control of Jovian magnetospheric boundary locations:  Cassini and Galileo magnetic field measurements compared, Planetary and Space Science, 51, 891, 2003

Kivelson, M.G., F. Bagenal, W.S. Kurth, F.M. Neubauer, C. Paranicas, and J. Saur, Magnetospheric interactions with satellites, Chapter 21 in Jupiter , edited by F. Bagenal et al.,  Cambridge University Press, 2004.   

Kivelson, M. G. and D. J. Southwood, Dynamical consequences of two modes of centrifugal instability in Jupiter’s outer magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 2005.

Kivelson, M.G., ULF Waves from the Ionosphere to the Outer Planets, in AGU Monograph 169, p. 11, Magnetospheric ULF Waves: Synthesis and New Derection, editors K. Takahashi and P.-J. Chi, 2006.

Kivelson, M.G., and F. Bagenal, Planetary magnetospheres, The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, 2nd Edition , P. Weissman, L.-A. McFadden, and T. Johnson, Eds.-in-Chief, Academic Press, pp. 519, 2007.

Graduate Students

 

 

Current

 

   Steven Joy

   Marissa Vogt

 

Recent past

   Janet Green

 

   Larry Kepko

   Scott Thompson   

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

 

Current

      James Weygand

Recent past

 

Christophe Zimmer 

Martin Volwerk