John T. Gosling Endowed Fellowship

Hands-on learning for future solar scientists

Dr. John (Jack) T. Gosling was a Senior Research Associate at LASP. He was also a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Gosling received his Ph.D. 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), 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.

How to Apply

For the John T. Gosling Endowed Fellowship, two or more fellowships of at least $2,000 are 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, or the study of the solar wind’s interaction with planetary magnetospheres.

CU Boulder faculty are encouraged to send a one-page description of the prospective recipient’s academic background and which projects the candidate will work on at LASP to GoslingFellowship@lasp.colorado.edu.

2025 Award Recipients

Marcel F. Corchado-Albelo

Marcel F. Corchado-Albelo of the Dept. of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences (advisor: Maria Kazachenko) studies solar flare magnetic reconnection primarily through remote sensing image and spectral observations in ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths.

Jorge Romero Minaya

Jorge Romero Minaya of the Dept. of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences (advisor: Lauren Blum) works on the relation between MeV electron microburst precipitation and Chorus waves in the Earth’s magnetosphere.

Wesley Martin

Wesley Martin of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (advisors: Xinlin Li and Scott Palo) works on solar energetic protons and electrons in Earth’s magnetosphere using measurements from the CIRBE CubeSat and other satellites.

Anant Telikicherla

Anant Telikicherla of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (advisor: Tom Woods) works on observational analysis and instrumentation development for studying solar flares.

2024 Award Recipients

Judit Bergfalk

Judit Bergfalk of the Dept. of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (advisor: Dave Brain and Robin Ramstad) works on comparing electron energy distributions observed by MAVEN and Mars Express in the Martian magnetosphere.

Tyler Bishop

Tyler Bishop of the Dept. of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences (advisor: Lauren Blum) studies the evolution and dynamics of the cold plasma population in Earth’s magnetosphere and how it responds to geomagnetic disturbances.

Domenique Freund

Domenique Freund of the Dept. of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences (advisor: Lauren Blum) researches the radiation belts of Earth and Jupiter with a focus on precipitation processes.

Robert Sewell

Robert Sewell of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (Advisor: Ed Thiemann) studies the dynamics of Earth’s thermosphere using solar SXR and UV occultation measurements.

2023 Award Recipients

Sky Shaver

Sky Shaver of Department of the Aerospace Engineering Sciences (Advisor: Laila Andersson) researches current systems that arise within the Martian ionosphere using data from the MAVEN mission.

Jian-zhao Wang

Jian-zhao Wang of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (Advisor: Fran Bagenal) works on the dynamics of plasma in Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

Daniel da Silva

Daniel da Silva of the Department of Aerospace engineering works with LASP advisors Scot Elkington and Xinlin Li studying the dynamics of electrons in the outer radiation belt using computational methods.

2022 Award Recipients

Ethan Ayari

Ethan Ayari of Dept of Physics (Advisor: Mihaly Horanyi) works on the formation and behavior of ring currents in planetary magnetospheres.

Vicki Herde

Vicki Herde of Dept of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (Advisor: Phil Chamberlin) works on the science analysis of the Mg II spectral imaging data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).

Peter Tatum

Peter Tatum of Dept of Astronomy planetary sciences (Advisor: David Malaspina) works on plasma waves in the near-Sun solar wind and how they influence the evolution of the solar wind as it propagates away from the Sun.

Alex Doner

Alex Doner of Dept of Physics (Advisor: Mihaly Horanyi) works on the development of new dust instruments space, heliospheric, or planetary missions.

Declan O’Brien

Declan O’Brien of Dept of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (Advisor: Xinlin Li) works on the dynamics of outer radiation belt electrons in the Earth’s magnetosphere.