Research Experience for Undergraduates

Boulder Solar Alliance REU Program

Summer 2017

Wednesday, July 26th- LASP SPSC N100 

  • 1:00 PM- Paige Campbell
    • The Effects of Precipitating Solar
      Energetic Protons in the Martian
      Atmosphere
    • Abstract | Presentation

Wednesday, August 2nd- LASP SPSC W120 

Session 1- Magnetosphere and Heliosphere  

  • 9:00 AM- Meghan Hill
    • Photospheric properties of solar faculae: comparison of MHD simulations with observations
    • Abstract | Presentation
  • 9:30 AM- Pauline Dredger
    • Coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere simulation of the system response to a sudden reversal in the interplanetary magnetic field by component
    • Abstract | Presentation | Poster
  • 10:00 AM- Shaniya Jarrett
  • 10:30- 11:00 AM- Break
  • 11:00 AM- Margie Bruff
    • Location and dynamics of the plasmapause compared to the outer radiation belt electron
    • Abstract | Presentation
  • 11:30 AM- Evin O’Shea
  • 12:00 PM- Lunch (Provided by Cosmo’s Pizza)

Session 2- Atmospheres of Mars and Earth

Session 3- GOES-16

  • 3:30 PM- Marcus Hughes
  • 4:00 PM- Henry Rook
    • Modeling the 13.3 nm FeXXIII flare emission using the GOES-R EXIS instrument
    • Abstract | Presentation
  • 4:30 PM- Erica Nathan
    • Investigating flares and solar global oscillations in MgII from GOES-16 EXIS
    • Abstract | Presentation | Poster

 Thursday, August 3rd- HAO Center Green 2126 

Session 4- The Sun- Observations and Models 

  • 9:00 AM- Bailey Donaldson
  • 9:30 AM- Kenzie Nimmo
    • Numerical MHD coronal simulations: energy statistics and the study of the cause and evolution of a CME event
    • Abstract | Presentation | Poster
  • 10:00- 10:15 AM- Break
  • 10:15 AM- Jackie Jensen
  • 10:45 AM- Emily Atkinson
  • 11:15 AM- Andrew Schwarz
    • Modeling the global coronal field with simulated synoptic magnetograms from Earth and L5
    • Abstract | Presentations
  • 11:45 AM- Lunch
  • 1:00 PM- Kirsten McMichael and Oliver Vierkens
    • The evolution of the solar magnetic field: a comparative analysis of two models
    • Abstract | Presentation

Friday, August 4th- LASP SPSC Lobby 

  • 9:00- 11:30 AM- Poster Session
  • 12:00 PM- BBQ
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