FRANCES
BAGENAL
Born: November 4, 1954, Dorchester, England
Education:
1973-1976 University of Lancaster
BSc degree in Physics and Geophysics
1976-1981 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Appointments:
1999- Professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder
1993- 1999 Associate Professor, APS Dept.
1995, 1997, 2005 Associate Chair, APS Dept.
1989-1993 Assistant Professor, APS Dept., University of Colorado, Boulder
1987-1988 Visiting Scientist, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR
1985-1987 Visiting Scientist, Center for Space Research, MIT
1985-1987 Advanced Research Fellow, Imperial College, London
1982-1985 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Imperial College, London
1981-1982 Post-Doctoral Research Asst., MIT, Center for Space Research
1977-1981 Research Assistant, Center for Space Research, MIT
Research:
The main theme of Dr Bagenal's research has been the synthesis of data analysis and theory in the study of space plasmas. She has specialized in the fields of planetary magnetospheres. Dr Bagenal is a co-investigator on the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment and has worked with colleagues at MIT in analyzing plasma data obtained in the magnetospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. From the PLS measurements one derives the properties of the low energy ions and electrons that comprise the thermal plasmas trapped by the planets' magnetic fields. She was an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the Galileo Project, specializing in a study of the Io plasma torus in the magnetosphere of Jupiter using both in situ plasma measurements and spectroscopic remote sensing observations. Dr Bagenal is a science team member of the Deep Space 1 mission and team leader of the plasma investigations on the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Juno mission to Jupiter. With Tim Dowling and Bill McKinnon she co-edited Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Selected Recent Publications:
Empirical model of the Io plasma torus: Voyager measurements, F. Bagenal, J. Geophys. Res., 99,11043-11062, 1994
Planetary Magnetospheres and the Interplanetary Medium, J.A. Van Allen, F. Bagenal, in The New Solar System (4th edition), Eds.J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Andrew Chaikin, Cambridge University Press & Sky Publishing, 1998
Galileo plasma spectrometer measurements of composition and temperature in the Io plasma torus, F.J. Crary, F. Bagenal, L.A. Frank, W.R. Paterson, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 29,359-71, 1998.
Ion cyclotron waves, pickup ions, and Io's neutral exosphere, F. Crary, F. Bagenal, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 25,279-89, 2000
Terrestrial Radio Emission: AKR, R. E. Ergun, Y.-J. Su, and F. Bagenal, in Planetary Radio Emissions V, editied by H. O. Rucker, M. L. Kaiser, and Y. Leblanc, …sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, p271, 2001.
The Latitudinal Structure of the Outer Io Plasma Torus, M. Moncuquet, F. Bagenal, N Meyer-Vernet, J. Geophys. Res., 107,1260, 2002.
Observations of low frequency electromagnetic plasma waves
upstream from the Martian shock by MGS MAG, Brain, D.A., F. Bagenal, M.H.
Acu–a, J.E.P. Connerney, D.H. Crider, C. Mazelle, D.L. Mitchell, and N.F. Ness,
, J. Geophys. Res., 107,1029, 2002.
Modeling variability of
plasma conditions in the Io torus,
Delamere, P.A. and F. Bagenal, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 1276, 2003.
Momentum transfer between
the Io plasma wake and Jupiter's ionosphere, Delamere, P.A., F. Bagenal, R. Ergun and Y.-J. Su, J. Geophys.
Res., 108, 1241, 2003.
Io-related Jovian auroral
arcs: Modeling parallel electric fields, Su, Yi-Jiun and R.E. Ergun, F. Bagenal, P. A. Delamere, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 1094, 2003
Martian magnetic morphology: Contributions from the solar
wind and crust, Brain, D.A., F. Bagenal, M.H. Acu–a, and J.E.P. Connerney, J.
Geophys. Res., 108, 1029, 2003.
Hubble Space Telescope observations of sulfur ions in the
Io plasma torus: New constraints on the plasma distribution,
Herbert, Floyd; Schneider, Nicholas M.;
Hendrix, Amanda R.; Bagenal, Fran, , J. Geophys. Res., 108, 1167, 2003.
Solar wind interactions with Comet 19P/Borrelly, D.T. Young, F.J. Crary,1 J.E.
Nordholt, F. Bagenal, D. Boice, J.L. Burch, A. Eviatar, R. Goldstein, J.J.
Hanley, D.J. Lawrence, D.J. McComas, R. Meier, D. Reisenfeld, K. Sauer, and
R.C. Wiens, Icarus, 167, 80-88, 2003
Pluto's kinetic interaction with the solar wind, P.A. Delamere
and F. Bagenal, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L04807, 2004
Cassini UVIS observations of the Io plasma torus. I. Initial
results, Andrew J. Steffl, A. Ian F. Stewart and Fran Bagenal, Icarus, 172,78-90, 2004
Cassini UVIS Observations of the Io Plasma Torus: II. Radial
Variations, Andrew J. Steffl, Fran Bagenal, A. Ian F. Stewart, Icarus, 172, 91-103, 2004
Modeling temporal variability of plasma conditions in the
Io torus during the Cassini era, P. A. Delamere, A. Steffl, and F. Bagenal,
J. Geophys. Res., 109 , A10216, 2004
Bagenal, F., Icarus, 180, 124-140, 2006