Research interest: Theoretical and experimental investigations of space and laboratory  dusty plasmas.  Electrodynamic processes and their role in the origin and evolution of the solar system, comets, planetary rings, plasma surface interactions. Dust charging, in situ and remote observations of dust. Dusty plasma laboratory experiments and space hardware development.

CU Dusty Plasma Research Group

Involvement in Space Missions:
AIM  (PI: Cosmic Dust Experiment)
Student Dust Counter (PI: SDC) for New Horizons
Galileo (CoI: Dust Detector System, DDS)
Cassini (CoI: Cosmic Dust Analyzer, CDA)
Ulysses
DUNE
 

Other Dusty Plasma Research Groups:
Heidelberg
Auburn
UCSD
Baylor
U. Iowa
Oxford
NASA/MSFC
U. Sydney
 
 

Meetings:

  7th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas                         (4/1998)
  8th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas                         (4/2000)
  9th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas                         (5/2001)
  3rd International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (5/2002)
10th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas                        (6/2003)
  4th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (6/2005)
11th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas                         (6/2006)
 5th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas  (5/2008)

New Journal of Physics:
Focus on Complex (Dusty) Plasmas

In the News:

Captured ring around Jupiter (4/98)
Halo orbits (4/2000)
Jovian dust streams (5/2000)
Photoelectric charging (6/2000)
Non-Keplerian dust dynamics (5/2001)
Dust experiments (8/2002)
Student Dust Counter to Pluto (9/2002)

Collaborations

CU Lunar Science Institute

Support is gratefully acknowledged from: