Mark Moldwin

Research

My research falls into several areas of space physics

Development of magnetometers for ground and space-based studies

Development of small-satellites

Understanding the structure of the inner heliosphere and its impact on the magnetosphere

Propagation of ULF waves in the magnetosphere

The mass and electron density of the inner magnetosphere

Magnetospheric and ionospheric coupling

The main question that is addressed is how different plasma populations and regions couple to facilitate energy and mass transport through the Helio/Magneto/Iono system.

Research Projects

NASA ST-5 Magnetometers (Co-I with Dr. Strangeway)

NASA MMS Magnetometer team

Air Force DSX Magnetometer (PI)

NSF MEASURE project in North America (PI)

NASA AMBER project in Africa (Co-PI with Dr. Yizengaw)

NSF SAMBA project in South America and Antarctica (Co-I with Dr. Zesta)

NSF McMac project in North America (Co-I with Dr. Chi)

NASA Guest Investigator on IMAGE (PI)

NASA Geospace Investigator (PI)

NASA LWS TR&T Investigator (PI)

NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) (Co-I with Prof. Gombosi)

NASA Heliophysics Theory Program (Co-I with Prof. Liemohn)

NSF Magnetospheric Physics Program (Co-I with Dr. Zou)

NSF UCLA GK-12 Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles (founding PI)

Space Systems Engineering

At UM, I work with the Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL) and the department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS)'s Masters of Engineering in Space Engineering program students to develop ground and space-based systems and mission designs to address space physics and space weather topics. UM will fly the first NSF supported CubeSat mission and has developed a "Pipeline" program for furthering mission and instrument designs for future missions.

Academic Family Tree

Current Graduate Students and Postdocs:

Mike Hartinger (NSF AGS Post-Doc)

Xiangyun Zhang (Graduate Student, NASA Fellow)

Theresa Carranza-Fulmer (Graduate Student, NSF Fellow)

Tom Heine (Graduate Student)

Audelia Wittbrodt (Graduate Student)

Former Masters Thesis Students:

Matthew Fillingim, Shelley Ford, Bret Sheeley, Paul Martin, Mark Fernandez, Jennifer Bocchicchio, Julie Feldt

Former PhD Students:

Dave Berube (Professor of Physics at LMU)

David Galvan (RAND Corporation)

Megan Cartwright (Research Scientist at UC-Berkeley)

Former Post-Docs:

Endawoke Yizengaw (Research Scientist at BC/AFRL)

James Weygand (Research Scientist at UCLA)

Shasha Zou (Research Faculty at UM)

Patrick Sibanda (Professor of Physics at the University of Zambia)

My Academic Family Tree

Education, Research and Outreach Travel

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