Group Research Interests

Professor Alan Johnstone sadly died on 28 May 1999.

Head of Group, Reader in Physics

Dr Andrew Coates (ajc@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Earth's Magnetosphere, Space Weather Studies
• Planetary magnetospheres, Comet - solar wind interaction
• Space plasma instrumentation
• Lead Co-I Cassini CAPS-ELS, Co-I Cluster PEACE, Lead Investigator Beagle 2 stereo camera system, Lead Investigator Tsunami and ESA space weather projects

Lecturer

Dr Andrew Fazakerley (anf@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Jupiter's Magnetosphere
• Earth's Magnetosheath, Foreshock
• Multi-point spacecraft analysis techniques
• PI Cluster II PEACE, Co-I Cluster II ASPOC

PPARC Advanced Fellow

Dr Chris Owen (cjo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Earth's Magnetosphere
• Geomagnetic tail, substorms, plasmoids, magnetopause
• Solar wind-moon interaction
• Co-I Cluster II PEACE, WIND MFI team member

Research Assistants

Dr Nigel Meredith (npm@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• CRRES data analysis
• Wave-Particle Interactions in inner magnetosphere
• Role of waves in acceleration of electrons and diffuse aurora production

Dr Ian Krauklis (ick@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Polar data analysis
• Cusp studies: magnetosheath and ionospheric plasma transport
• Source of plasma in the low latitude boundary layer

Dr Rosalind Mist (rtm@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Geotail data analysis
• Plasma sheet structure in distant magnetotail
• Magnetopause reconnection process

Dr Gary Abel (gaa@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Field-aligned electrons, role in substorms
• Wave-particle interactions
• Cassini Earth swingby analysis

Dr Sarah Szita (ss@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cluster science preparations
• ESA Trend III Project - Trapped Radiation Environment Development
• Outer radiation belt dynamics
• Meteosat SEM II time-series analysis

Project managers

Dr Paul Carter(pjc@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cluster II PEACE project manager

Dr Dave Linder (drl@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cassini CAPS/ELS project manager

Dr Andrew Griffiths (adg@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Beagle 2 stereo camera system project manager

PhD Students

Stephen Topliss (smt@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Polar data analysis
• Earth's magnetospheric cusp: charge neutrality, conics
• Modelling of particle entry into magnetosphere

Roger Iles (rhi@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• STRV-1a data analysis
• Relativistic electron flux enhancements, dependence on solar wind and substorms
• Sources and losses of outer radiation belt particles

Alexi Glover (ahg@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Radiation belts
• Solar connection - joint student with Solar Physics

Abi Rymer (amr@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)

• Cassini Electron Spectrometer data analysis
• Cassini Earth swingby data, removal of spacecraft effects