John T. Gosling
For the John T. Gosling Endowed Fellowship, two fellowships of $2,000 will be awarded to graduate students who have demonstrated an intention to study solar-terrestrial physics and/or space plasma physics including the study of the Sun, the study of the solar wind, the study of the Sun-Earth connection, and the study of the solar wind’s interaction with planetary magnetospheres.
CU faculty are encouraged to send a one-page description of the prospective recipient’s academic background and what projects the candidate will (or might be) working on at CU, to GoslingFellowship@lasp.colorado.edu.
Dr. John (Jack) T. Gosling was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). He was also a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Gosling received his PhD in physics from the University of California Berkeley in 1965.
Dr. Gosling’s research focused on the large-scale structure and magnetic topology of the solar wind, coronal mass ejections, solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances, magnetic reconnection, collisionless shocks, and particle acceleration in space. He worked extensively with plasma and magnetic field data from Vela 2 and 3, IMP 6, 7, and 8, ISEE 1, 2, and 3, Helios, Ulysses, Wind, the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), and STEREO and with coronagraph data from Skylab. He was the Principal Investigator for data analysis for plasma experiments on IMP 6, 7, and 8 and ISEE 1, 2, and 3. He also was actively involved in analyzing and interpreting solar wind data from ACE, Wind, and STEREO.
2021 Award Winners
 Ben Short is working with David Malaspina on Parker Solar Probe observations of the solar wind. |
 Yang Mei is working with Xinlin Li on radiation belt electrons. |
 Li Hsia Yeo is working with Mihaly Horanyi on lab simulations of solar wind interaction with the Moon. |
Previous Award Winners
| Year | Photo | Student name | LASP advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |  |
Andrea Hughes | Mike Chaffin |
| 2020 |  |
Ann Marie Mahon |
Frank Crary and Vincent Dols |
| 2020 |  |
Ben Hogan | Xinlin Li |
| 2019 |  |
Avery Schiff | Steve Cranmer |
| 2019 |  |
Piyush Agrawal | Mark Rast |
| 2018 |  |
Hilary Egan | David Brain |
| 2018 |  |
Lily Kromyda | Bob Ergun |
| 2017 |  |
Rebecca Jolitz | David Brain |
| 2017 |  |
Leng Khoo | Xinlin Li |
| 2016 |  |
Eddie Nerney and Chris Fowler | Fran Bagenal (Eddie) and Bob Ergun (Chris) |
| 2015 |  |
Katherine Goodrich | Bob Ergun |
| 2015 |  |
Kun Zhang | Xinlin Li |
| 2014 |  |
Julia Stalwarz and Tristan Weber | Bob Ergun |