Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. She recently served on the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Directorate but stepped down when she accepted the co-chair position for this decadal survey.

FRANCES BAGENAL is a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Space and Atmospheric Physics of the University of Colorado Boulder and leads its Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets Group. Prior to that, Dr. Bagenal was a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at the same institution. Her research interests focus primarily on planetary physics of gas giants—specifically, understanding the magnetospheres by combining data analysis and theoretical models. Dr. Bagenal has been co-investigator on several highly successful NASA missions, including Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno. She is the recipient of the James Van Allen Lecture Award from the AGU and the Boulder Faculty Assembly’s Excellence in Research Award. She is involved in the American Astronomical Society’s Planetary Science Workforce Survey, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In National Academies’ work, Dr. Bagenal co-chaired the Committee on Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions, was a member of the 2003 Solar and Space Physics Survey Panel on Education and Society, and was a member of the Panel on Giant Planets Systems of the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023–2032. Dr. Bagenal received a PhD in Earth and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

TIMOTHY S. BASTIAN is an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and an adjunct faculty member in the Astronomy Department at the University of Virginia. Formerly, Dr. Bastian served as head of the NRAO Office of Science and Academic Affairs, assistant director and head of Observatory Science Operations, and assistant director and head of Science Support and Research. His research interests include solar and stellar radiophysics, planetary/exoplanetary radio emission, radio propagation phenomena as probes of the solar wind, the physics of flares and coronal mass ejections, the physics of the chromosphere, and ground- and space-based interferometry. Dr. Bastian is currently a Co-I on the NASA SunRISE mission and the NSF Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array and leads the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Solar Development Group. Previous National Academies’ service includes the 2003 decadal survey Panel on Solar and Heliospheric Physics, the Committee on Solar and Space Physics, the Committee for the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey—Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society, and chair of the Committee on Assessment of the NSF’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review. Dr. Bastian received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Colorado.

SARBANI BASU is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Dr. Basu’s research interests include the study of the Sun and other stars using data on stellar oscillations (star quakes), and in studying the variations in the Sun over timescales that are of societal relevance. To this end, she uses solar oscillation data to examine changes that take place deep inside the Sun over periods of years and decades. Dr. Basu is a Co-I on the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. She is the recipient of the George Ellery Hale Prize of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society and the M.K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of India. Dr. Basu is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was chair of the Panel on Stars, Sun, and Stellar Populations for the Astro2020 decadal survey. Dr. Basu received a PhD in physics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

RICHARD DOE is an instrument subject matter expert at Cornell Technical Services. Dr. Doe’s previous experience includes work as a senior research physicist at SRI International, research associate at Boston University, senior RF engineer at Lockheed Engineering and Management Services, EMI test engineer at Texas Instruments, and sonar technician at UT Applied Research Laboratory. His research interests include radar, UV photometer, imaging, and RF beacon instruments; high-latitude plasma turbulence and structuring; ionospheric and space weather remote sensing; and CubeSat mission design, development, and operations. Dr. Doe has served as a panel reviewer for the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, the NASA Heliophysics Division, and the NASA Earth Science Division, and as a member of the NSF Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Science Steering Committee. Dr. Doe received a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from Boston University.

atmosphere general circulation modeling, and data analysis of the TI system from space- and ground-based measurements. Dr. Qian is a recipient of HAO’s Walter O. Roberts scientific and technical advancement award, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research scientific and technical advancement award, and the NCAR/HAO John W. Firor publication award, and the NASA group achievement award to TIMED/SEE science team. Dr. Qian received a PhD in atmospheric science from Pennsylvania State University.

MARILIA SAMARA is a research astrophysicist in the Geospace Physics Laboratory of the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA GSFC. Previously, Dr. Samara was a principal scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Samara studies space plasmas with an emphasis on ionospheric electrodynamics and ionosphere–magnetosphere coupling using both suborbital and orbital particle and wave instruments. She has a particular passion for space hardware and studying small-scale auroral structure and dynamics using common volume in situ and ground-based measurements. Dr. Samara was principal investigator of the Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics–Electrons Correlative Experiment (GREECE) sounding rocket and is co-investigator on numerous sounding rockets. GREECE demonstrated that multispectral ground imaging of the aurora alone can be used to infer the two-dimensional electron characteristics of the precipitating electrons creating the aurora. Other current projects include serving as the deputy principal investigator of the Electron Electrostatic Analyzer (EEA) instrument of the Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite (HERMES) science payload for the Lunar Gateway, the Dione CubeSat, and the Comprehensive Auroral Precipitation Experiment (CAPE) on the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC), all in development. Dr. Samara received a PhD in physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College.

JOSHUA SEMETER is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University (BU) and director of the BU Center for Space Physics. Dr. Semeter’s previous appointments include senior research engineer at SRI International, postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and control systems engineer at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Dr. Semeter’s lab seeks to understand interactions between the atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere that underlay space weather. His research employs combinations of physics-based modeling, radio and optical remote sensing, satellite observations, and physics-based data fusion. Current research interests include high-speed flow channels in the ionosphere, small-scale plasma irregularities and their effects on radio wave propagation, ionospheric signatures of magnetic reconnection, and applications of data science and artificial intelligence to distributed observations of the geospace environment. Dr. Semeter has also served on the advisory committee to the NSF Geoscience Directorate (AC-GEO), and as chair of the NSF program on Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR). He was a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and has received multiple awards for teaching at Boston University. Dr. Semeter has served on the National Academies’ Committee on Solar and Space Physics, the 2013 Panel on Atmosphere–Ionosphere–Magnetosphere Interactions, and the Committee for the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey—Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. He received a PhD in electrical engineering from Boston University.

ENDAWOKE YIZENGAW is a senior scientist at the Aerospace Corporation. His research interests include the complexities of ionospheric electrodynamics using multiple instrument techniques from ground and space. Dr. Yizengaw developed the African Meridian B-Field Education and Research (AMBER) network of magnetometer instruments in more than 10 countries and has played a vital role in the expansion of space science education and research in developing countries. He participates in the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI), was active in the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) program, and has performed scientific outreach programs for young scientists in the United States and developing nations. Dr. Yizengaw is currently on the Scientific Steering Committee of the NSF Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions Program. He has co-convened conferences in Africa, including an AGU Chapman Conference and a number of programs of the International Space Weather Initiative and the International Heliophysical Year. Dr. Yizengaw was awarded the AGU’s Joanne Simpson Medal. He received a PhD in space science from La Trobe University, Australia.

physics subfields such as plasma physics; a national strategic plan for fusion energy; and shepherding panels for the astronomy and heliophysics decadal studies. Prior to his current posting at the National Academies, Dr. Jones had the honor of serving as a congressional fellow in the Senate for energy topics, a White House fellow working on material science and water quality issues, and a Fulbright grantee assessing water quality in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Jones received his PhD from Rice University and BS from Florida State University, both in chemistry.

ARUL MOZHI is a senior program officer and associate director of the ASEB and the SSB at the National Academies. Since 1999, Dr. Mozhi has been directing projects in the areas of defense and broader science and technology carried out by numerous committees of ASEB, SSB, the Laboratory Assessments Board, the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board, the Naval Studies Board, and the National Materials and Manufacturing Board. Prior to joining the National Academies, Dr. Mozhi held technical and management positions in systems engineering and applied materials research and development (R&D) at several small- and mid-size high-tech R&D and consulting companies in the Washington, DC, and Boston areas—UTRON, Roy F. Weston, and Marko Materials. He received his MS and PhD (the latter in 1986) in materials engineering from the Ohio State University and then served as a postdoctoral research associate there for 2 years. He received his BTech in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1982.

MIA BROWN joined the SSB as a research associate in 2016. Ms. Brown comes to the SSB with experience in both the civil and military space sectors and has primarily focused on policies surrounding U.S. space programs in the international sector. Some of these organizations include NASA’s Office of International and Interagency Relations, Arianespace, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (Austria), and the U.S. Department of State. From 2014 to 2015, Ms. Brown was the managing editor of the International Affairs Review. She received her MA in international space policy from the Space Policy Institute at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Prior to entering the Space Policy Institute, Ms. Brown received her MA in historical studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she concentrated in the history of science, technology, and medicine and defended a thesis on the development of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

MEGAN CHAMBERLAIN joined the SSB and the ASEB as a senior program assistant in 2019. Ms. Chamberlain began her career at the National Academies in 2007 working for the Transportation Research Board in the Cooperative Research Programs. She has assisted with meeting facilitation and administrative support of hundreds of research projects over the course of her career. Ms. Chamberlain attended the University of the District of Columbia and majored in psychology.

COLLEEN N. HARTMAN joined the National Academies in 2018, as the director for both the Space Studies Board (SSB) and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB). After beginning her government career as a presidential management intern under Ronald Reagan, Dr. Hartman worked on Capitol Hill for House Science and Technology Committee Chair Don Fuqua, as a senior engineer building spacecraft at NASA GSFC, and as a senior policy analyst at the White House. She has served as the Planetary Division director, deputy associate administrator, and acting associate administrator at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate; as the deputy assistant administrator at NOAA; and as the deputy center director and director of science and exploration at NASA GSFC. Dr. Hartman has built and launched scientific balloon payloads, overseen the development of hardware for a variety of Earth-observing spacecraft, and served as NASA program manager for dozens of missions, the most successful of which was the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). Data from the COBE spacecraft gained two NASA-sponsored scientists the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. Dr. Hartman also played a pivotal role in developing innovative approaches to powering space probes destined for the solar system’s farthest reaches. While at NASA Headquarters, she spearheaded the selection process for the New Horizons probe to Pluto. She helped gain administration and congressional approval for an entirely new class of funded missions that are competitively selected, called “New Frontiers,” to explore the planets, asteroids, and comets in the solar system. She has several master’s degrees and a PhD in physics. Dr. Hartman has received numerous awards, including two prestigious Presidential Rank Awards.

physics-based solar cycle prediction paper. Dr. Dikpati’s research on the extended minimum at the end of solar cycle 23 was recognized as one of the top 100 science discoveries in 2011 by Discover Magazine. She received a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

JOE GIACALONE is a professor at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Dr. Giacalone’s research interests include understanding the origin, acceleration, and propagation of cosmic rays and other charged-particle species in the magnetic fields of space. This includes developing physics-based theoretical and computational models that are used to interpret in situ spacecraft observations. Dr. Giacalone is currently involved in the following spacecraft: Solar Orbiter; Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP); Parker Solar Probe, Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun Instrument; and Advanced Composition Explorer. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Kansas.

LINDSAY GLESENER is an associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, Dr. Glesener was an assistant researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. She works in high-energy studies of the Sun and other stars, especially studying electron acceleration and the heating of coronal plasma. Her expertise is in observation and instrumentation. Dr. Glesener received an NSF CAREER Award. She received a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

ADAM F. KOWALSKI is an assistant professor with the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder with a joint appointment at the National Solar Observatory (NSO). Prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Kowalski was a research associate at the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy and NASA GSFC’s Heliophysics Science Division, a fellow of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Postdoctoral Program, and a research assistant at the University of Washington. His research interests include solar and stellar astrophysics with a specialization in spectroscopy of optical and ultraviolet emission in stellar flares. Dr. Kowalski received a PhD in astronomy from the University of Washington.

SUSAN T. LEPRI is a professor at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lepri’s research involves solar wind heavy ions and development of heavy ion mass spectrometers for in situ observations in the heliosphere. In addition to conducting research and maximizing the scientific return of data sets from operational spacecraft, including ACE and WIND, she also develops space-based ion mass spectrometers, working with a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lepri received the University of Michigan Willie Hobbs Moore Award: Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award. She received a PhD in atmospheric and space sciences from the University of Michigan.

ANDRÉS MUÑOZ-JARAMILLO is a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and a visiting scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s High Altitude Observatory (HAO) and the National Solar Observatory (NSO). His research interests include understanding and predicting the solar magnetic cycle and its impact on solar variability, space climate, and terrestrial climate change. Dr. Muñoz-Jaramillo uses advanced techniques of deep learning, data mining and analysis, and data visualization to accelerate discovery from large volumes of data. Dr. Muñoz-Jaramillo was awarded a Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the AGU’s Fred L. Scarf Award. He received a PhD in physics from Montana State University.

SUSAN E. POPE is director of the Space Instrumentation Department at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. She has broad experience in space instrument mechanical design, systems engineering, and management. Dr. Pope has built a career from the foundation of mechanical engineering, gaining specific knowledge of the particular complexities of designing and building hardware for spaceflight. This segued into systems engineering, where she managed the requirements behind the engineering, from single instruments to entire missions. This culminated as project manager for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) payload,

where her technical expertise allows communication across all mission systems to manage cost and schedule knowledgeably. Dr. Pope has also performed various roles on multiple NASA and ESA missions. She received an MS in engineering management from the University of Texas, Austin.

BRIAN E. WOOD is a research physicist with the Space Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory. Prior to joining the Naval Research Laboratory, Dr. Wood was a research associate at the University of Colorado Boulder and an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His research interests involve observational studies of the Sun and Sun-like stars. Dr. Wood is also an expert on solar wind and coronal mass ejection (CME) data analysis and has developed techniques for reconstructing the 3D morphology and kinematics of CMEs based on coronagraph and heliospheric imager observations, utilizing data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Parker Solar Probe (PSP), and Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). His astrophysical work mostly involves chromospheric and coronal UV and X-ray emissions from stars using satellites like Hubble and Chandra. Dr. Wood is the current principal investigator of the Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) instrument on board NASA’s STEREO mission. He received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder.

PANEL ON THE PHYSICS OF MAGNETOSPHERES

LYNN M. KISTLER, Chair, is a professor of physics at the University of New Hampshire’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Space Science Center. Dr. Kistler’s research interests and activities include the impact of heavy ions on dynamics of the magnetosphere—in particular, the ring current and the magnetotail—and the space instrumentation to measure ion composition. She has been involved in developing instruments for Cluster, Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST), Equator-S, Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and Solar Orbiter missions. Dr. Kistler is an AGU Fellow and has been involved in various NASA committees, including the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee, the NASA Sun–Earth Connections Roadmap Committee, the NASA Heliophysics Lunar Science Subpanel, and the NASA Heliospheric Mission Planning Working Group. She served as the secretary for the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy subsection on Magnetospheric Physics. Dr. Kistler earned a PhD in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She served as a member of the previous decadal survey’s Panel on Solar Wind–Magnetosphere Interactions.

LAUREN W. BLUM is an assistant professor in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Blum was a research astrophysicist at the NASA GSFC and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include heliospheric physics and the coupled nature of plasma populations in planetary magnetospheres. Recent work has focused on wave–particle interactions, solar wind–magnetosphere interactions, and energetic particle dynamics in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts. Dr. Blum’s experience includes analysis of particle and field measurements from satellites, balloons, and ground stations, as well as instrument and small satellite development. Dr. Blum is the recipient of numerous awards, including AGU’s Basu US Early Career Award for Research in Sun–Earth Systems Science. She earned a PhD in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder.

IAN J. COHEN is a senior professional staff member and assistant group supervisor of the Geospace and Earth Science Group at JHU/APL. Dr. Cohen primarily focuses on energetic particle dynamics, planetary magnetospheres, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and particle flight instrumentation. He currently serves as deputy lead for the Energetic Particle Detector investigation on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and deputy project scientist on the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. Dr. Cohen chairs the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy section’s advocacy committee and is serving on both the NSF Geospace Environment Modeling Steering Committee and the NASA Living With a Star Executive Committee. He earned a PhD in physics from the University of New Hampshire.

(length and time) are intrinsically linked to long scales, making them extremely difficult to simulate using conventional brute force methods. He has extensively studied one multiscale process called magnetic reconnection, in which large amounts of magnetic energy are explosively released in the form of energetic particle acceleration, heating, and plasma flows, and he is also studying novel simulation techniques that may provide a means to directly simulate multiscale phenomena. Dr. Shay received a PhD in plasma physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He served as a member of the previous decadal survey’s Panel on Solar Wind–Magnetosphere Interactions.

PETER D. SPIDALIERE is a retired NASA mission systems engineer and served as the lead engineer on the First Hubble Servicing Mission, Landsat 7, Earth Observing 1, Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, and Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem Mission. Mr. Spidaliere was the systems engineering manager for the International Space Station and the Shuttle upgrades program. Currently, Mr. Spidaliere is an independent consultant for Redwire Space and Southwest Research Institute. He received a BS in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech.

DIMITRIOS VASSILIADIS is a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Prior to NOAA, Dr. Vassiliadis was a space physicist at the NASA GSFC, conducting research on magnetospheric and geomagnetic physics. Research interests include solar wind–magnetosphere coupling, high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics, inner magnetosphere current, and particle dynamics. Dr. Vassiliadis’s responsibilities at NOAA include projects in space weather physics and space mission development at the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. He received a PhD in plasma physics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

BRIAN WALSH is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. Dr. Walsh’s research interests include space and plasma dynamics in planetary space environments, including the plasma interactions in the near-Earth environment and the coupling of energy from the sun into Earth’s magnetic system. Dr. Walsh is involved in the NASA missions Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions (THEMIS) and Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) and is part of the development of space-based instrumentation, including small spacecraft and soft X-ray technology that takes images of the interaction of the Sun and solar wind with the Earth’s plasma environment to provide a global picture. He received a PhD in astronomy from Boston University.

SHASHA ZOU is an associate professor in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Zou’s research focuses on the dynamic interactions between the Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere during geomagnetic disturbances and their space weather impacts. In addition, she is an editor for the AGU journal Space Weather. Dr. Zou was awarded the University of Michigan Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award in 2019 and the URSI (International Union of Radio Science) Young Scientist Award in 2014. She received a PhD in space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

PANEL ON THE PHYSICS OF IONOSPHERES, THERMOSPHERES, AND MESOSPHERES

PHILIP J. ERICKSON, Co-Chair, is an associate director at Haystack Observatory, a multidisciplinary radio and radar remote sensing observatory that is a subsidiary of MIT. Dr. Erickson also holds the appointment of principal research scientist at MIT. His research interests include basic and applied space weather; atmospheric and ionospheric physics; radar and radio signal processing; nonlinear radiation belt particle acceleration; and radio science, including scattering from plasma irregularities at VHF frequencies and above. Dr. Erickson directs the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences group at MIT Haystack, co-leads the extensive Haystack education and public outreach effort, and is the lead PI for the NSF-supported Millstone Hill Geospace Facility, which includes a large-aperture, high-power UHF ionospheric radar system. He is the PI for the NASA Auroral Emission Radio Observer (AERO) CubeSat, which will study the radio aurora at HF frequencies from a low-altitude polar Earth orbit using an advanced electromagnetic vector sensor. He is also on the scientific steering committee for the

HamSCI citizen science collective, a national effort using the efforts of more than 700,000 U.S. radio amateur efforts for professional research. Dr. Erickson serves on the Committee on Radio Frequencies. He received a PhD in space plasma physics from Cornell University.

LARA WALDROP, Co-Chair, is an associate professor and Y.T. Lo fellow in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Waldrop’s research interests and areas include the study of atmospheric and ionospheric measurements, atmospheric and ionospheric theory, radio and optical wave propagation, remoting sensing, charge particle physics and engineering, computational science and engineering, data science and analytics, photonics of optical engineering and systems, and sensing systems. She is the PI of the NASA Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) mission, which will measure the far ultraviolet light emitted by hydrogen atoms in Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer. Dr. Waldrop is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Y.T. Lo Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the NSF CAREER award, and the NSF CEDAR Postdoctoral Award. She received a PhD in astronomy and space physics from Boston University.

REBECCA L. BISHOP is a principal scientist at the Aerospace Corporation in the Space Science Application Laboratory. At the Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Bishop has led the design, building, and testing of a CubeSat-capable GPS radio occultation (RO) sensor to measure ionospheric density and scintillation. Dr. Bishop is the PI of a CubeSat mission to study a nighttime feature in the ionosphere/thermosphere. She has provided a GPS RO sensor on three CubeSat/Nanosat missions and is preparing for a fourth. Dr. Bishop was the Aerospace Corporation PI for the joint Naval Research Laboratory/Aerospace Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) experiment on the International Space Station. In addition, she has been a part of several sounding-rocket experiments. Her research interests include mid- and low-latitude ionospheric dynamics and instabilities, the response of the ionosphere from coupling to the thermosphere, and the reaction of the ionosphere to other regions above and below the ionosphere as well as its influence on those regions. Dr. Bishop explores how the dynamics of the ionosphere impact operational and civil systems such as GPS navigation and communication systems. Another area of interest is to improve communication between the science community and end users to better inform users of the potential impacts of the space environment on their technology. Dr. Bishop is a member of the National Weather Service Space Weather Advisory Group. She received a PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Dallas.

JOHN T. CLARKE is a professor of astronomy at Boston University. Dr. Clarke’s main research interests are in planetary atmospheres, their auroral and airglow emission, and ultraviolet space instrumentation. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston University, Dr. Clarke worked at space science laboratories at the University of California, Berkeley, NASA’s Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers, and the University of Michigan. He served as the deputy project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope project from 1984–1987, was a science team member on the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 project, and has participated in the flight of six sounding rocket experiments. Dr. Clarke is presently the PI for the Venus Spectral Rocket (VeSpR) sounding rocket project, and a Co-I on several space missions, including the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph Subsystem (UVIS) instrument on Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN); the Probing of Hermean Exosphere by Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (PHEBUS) experiment on BepiColombo, ESA’s first mission to Mercury; and the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph instrument on the Juno Jupiter orbiter. Dr. Clarke is the deputy PI for the NASA Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) mission. He received a PhD in physics from JHU.

SEEBANY DATTA-BARUA is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Dr. Datta-Barua’s research interests include the use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for remotely sensing the atmosphere and Earth’s surface, tomography, and data assimilation for ionospheric and thermospheric prediction of dynamics, and in mitigating upper atmospheric effects on GPS-based navigation systems. Current projects include the Lagrangian coherent structures in the ionosphere and thermosphere, auroral E and F region irregularities with a GPS scintillation array, GNSS reflectometry for surface ice monitoring, ionospheric data assimilation and analysis of geomagnetic storms, and the atmospheric effects on GPS-based navigation.

Dr. Datta-Barua is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT, the Per Enge Earl Achievement Award from the Institute of Navigation, and the Excellence in Research award from IIT. She received a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.

RICHARD J. FITZGERALD is the project manager for NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Titan at the JHU/APL. Mr. Fitzgerald has extensive experience in space flight development and project management. He previously served as program area manager for civil space, as well as project manager for the Van Allen Probes mission and several other APL projects. Prior to APL, Mr. Fitzgerald served as project manager for the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration and mission manager for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), and Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) missions at NASA GSFC. Mr. Fitzgerald is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. He received an MS in computer science from the George Washington University.

KATELYNN R. GREER is a research associate for the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Greer’s research interests include the study of middle atmospheric weather, neutral atmospheric waves in the middle and upper atmosphere, thermospheric composition, coupling events of the entire atmospheric column (such as Sudden Stratospheric Warmings), and remote sensing techniques. Dr. Greer is the deputy PI of the Occultation Wave Limb Sounder (OWLS) instrument on InspireSat III, a project scientist of the Global-Scale Observations of Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission, and an interdisciplinary scientist on the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission. She is a member of the Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Science Steering Committee. Dr. Greer is a recent recipient of the NASA Early Career Public Achievement Award. She received a PhD in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado.

BRIAN J. HARDING is an assistant research physicist in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Harding’s research is focused on the dynamics of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere. He is responsible for the neutral wind data product for the NASA Ionospheric Connections Explorer (ICON) mission and served as the chair of ICON’s electrodynamics working group. Dr. Harding also deploys and operates ground-based airglow imagers and interferometers to study wind–wave interactions in the thermosphere. His research interests include optical instrumentation, inverse theory, photochemical and radiative transfer modeling, and ionospheric electrodynamics. Previously, Dr. Harding was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a PhD in electrical engineering with a focus in remote sensing and space sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

AMY KEESEE is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Keesee studies ion dynamics in the magnetosphere, focusing on the plasma sheet and magnetotail regions, especially during magnetospheric storms and substorms. She also works on instrument development, including a next-generation plasma spectrometer for space and laboratory measurements, and has developed an education and outreach program on the Sun and space weather. Previous research interests included laboratory plasma physics, with an emphasis on laser-based diagnostics. Dr. Keesee received a PhD in plasma physics from West Virginia University.

KRISTINA A. LYNCH is a professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, Dr. Lynch has led the design, manufacturing, testing, and launch of a number of NASA auroral sounding rocket payloads. Her research interests include instruments that measure ionospheric plasma particles and fields, the plasma physics of the lower thermal ionosphere, laboratory plasma physics used to develop space instrumentation, and developing and analyzing space mission architectures for low-resource ionospheric multipoint missions. Previously, Dr. Lynch was on the research faculty of the University of New Hampshire, in the Depart-

ment of Physics and the Institute for Earth Oceans and Space. Dr. Lynch is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. She received a PhD in physics from the University of New Hampshire.

DANIEL R. MARSH is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory and a professor at the University of Leeds. Dr. Marsh’s research interests and activities include whole atmosphere modeling, middle atmosphere composition and solar–terrestrial coupling, and the interaction of chemistry and dynamics in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. Dr. Marsh is the chair in Comparative Planetary Atmospheres and a member of the executive committee at the Priestley International Centre for Climate. He also serves as the vice president of the Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics and is the recipient of the NASA Group Achievement awards for the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) and the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) missions. Dr. Marsh received a PhD in atmospheric and space sciences from the University of Michigan.

PHIL G. RICHARDS is a professor emeritus from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a research professor (retired) in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at George Mason University. Previously, Dr. Richards was a discipline scientist at NASA headquarters. He has over 40 years of experience in space science, specializing in numerical techniques for studying ionospheric transport phenomena, ionospheric chemistry, absorption of solar irradiance, and ionospheric photoelectron theory. Dr. Richards was awarded the University of Alabama in Huntsville Foundation Award for Research Excellence. He received a PhD in space physics from La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.

PANEL ON SPACE WEATHER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS

CHRISTINA M.S. COHEN, Co-Chair, is a member of the professional staff at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Cohen’s research currently focuses on the acceleration, transport, and properties of solar energetic particles in the heliosphere and their space weather implications. She is past president of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the AGU. Dr. Cohen led a team that produced the report for NASA Next Steps in Determining Space Weather Benchmarks for Ionizing Radiation Hazards. Dr. Cohen was co-chair of the organizing committee for the National Academies’ Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure Workshop, Phase II. She received a PhD in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

THOMAS P. O’BRIEN III, Co-Chair, is a research scientist in the Space Sciences Department at the Aerospace Corporation. Dr. O’Brien’s research experience includes magnetospheric physics, with special emphasis on radiation belts and empirical analysis of in situ particle data. He is a past chair of the COSPAR Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modeling (PRBEM) and editor of the journal Space Weather. Dr. O’Brien is a member of the NASA Space Weather Council, a community-based, interdisciplinary forum that provides advice to the NASA’s Heliophysics Advisory Committee (HPAC), which in turn provides advice to NASA’s Heliophysics Division. He received a PhD in geophysics and space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

HAZEL M. BAIN is the CIRES science lead at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center and a research scientist in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Dr. Bain’s current research focuses on space weather and, in particular, solar radiation storms, which can pose a radiation hazard for astronauts in space and for passengers and crew on polar flight routes, as well as causing satellite malfunctions and problems for high-frequency communication technologies. Dr. Bain previously worked at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and did research on solar flares as a member of the NASA Reuven Ramaty High Energy Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft team. She was also part of a team that designed and built a solar gamma-ray telescope, which flew on a high-altitude balloon around Antarctica. Dr. Bain received a PhD in physics and astronomy from the University of Glasgow.

British Antarctic Survey. His research interests include electron radiation belt climatology and dynamics, geomagnetic substorm occurrence and space weather impacts, inner magnetosphere dynamics and wave-particle interaction, and geomagnetically induced currents. Dr. Morley received a PhD in physics from the University of Southampton.

EMMA L. SPANSWICK is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Geospace Dynamics and Space Plasma Physics at the University of Calgary. Dr. Spanswick develops ground- and satellite-based instruments to improve understanding of Earth’s near-space environment and space weather. Her research interests include energization, transport, and loss of the >30 keV electron population in the near-Earth space environment; magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling mechanisms; techniques for remote sensing magnetospheric dynamics; and impacts of particle precipitation on the ionosphere and technological systems. Dr. Spanswick earned a PhD in physics from the University of Calgary.

DREW L. TURNER is a senior research staff at JHU/APL. Dr. Turner’s research interests include energetic charged particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere; the coupling of energy from the Sun and space environments ranging from the Van Allen radiation belts to the boundaries of the magnetosphere and solar wind; and space-based measurements needed to improve space weather forecasting, nowcasting, and hindcasting. Dr. Turner is a 2018 James B. Macelwane Medal Winner from the AGU. He received a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.

KATHRYN WHITMAN is a research scientist in the Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG) at NASA Johnson Space Center. SRAG is responsible for ensuring that the radiation exposure received by astronauts remains below established safety limits. Dr. Whitman’s work includes space weather, solar energetic particles, and galactic cosmic rays and their impacts on the space radiation environment. A primary focus is the development of a validation process to assess SEP forecast models selected for use in space radiation operations during NASA’s Exploration Class missions. Dr. Whitman received a PhD in physics from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

MICHAEL WILTBERGER is the deputy director of the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Wiltberger was the section head of the Geospace Section in the Atmospheric and Geospace Science Division at NSF. His research interests include the modeling of the magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and coupled thermosphere–ionosphere system. Dr. Wiltberger’s work also entails the inclusion of ionospheric outflow and the application of advanced statistical analysis in global models and groundbreaking results proving the connection between localized reconnection and so-called Bursty Bulk Flows in high-resolution simulations of the magnetotail. Dr. Wiltberger also served in many community functions, including as chair of the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Steering Committee, and as vice chair of the American Meteorological Society Science and Technology Committee on Space Weather. He received a PhD in space plasma physics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

PANEL ON THE STATE OF THE PROFESSION

APRILLE J. ERICSSON, Co-Chair, became Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology on March 29, 2024. Prior to this appointment, she served as the business lead in the Instrument Systems and Technology Division at the NASA GSFC. Dr. Ericsson has also served at GSFC as acting chief technologist, project manager, deputy to the chief technologist for the Engineering and Technology Directorate, program executive for Earth science, and business executive for space science. For 10 of those years, she was an instrument project manager leading spaceflight mission teams. Dr. Ericsson has a breadth of experience in astrophysics, heliophysics, and planetary and Earth science that includes the James Webb telescope; Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-1 & 2); lunar orbiters; and the Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM) missions. She has held adjunct faculty appointments at several universities, and served on boards at the National Academies, MIT, and as a former Howard University Trustee. Dr. Ericsson is co-founder and advisor of the nonprofit STEM Youth Dynamic

Mathematical Visionaries National Society of Black Engineers, Jr. Chapter in the Washington, DC. In these roles, Dr. Ericsson has been an outspoken and tireless champion for the advancement of people of color and women in the STEM fields. As such, she has spoken extensively throughout the world, presenting papers on her technical research and speaking on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the United States, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, England, South Africa, Mexico, Portugal, and Brazil. Dr. Ericsson is the first African American woman to receive a PhD in mechanical engineering, the aerospace option, from Howard University, and the first African American female to receive a PhD in engineering as a civil servant at NASA GSFC.

MARK B. MOLDWIN, Co-Chair, is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering and Applied Physics at the University of Michigan’s (UM’s) Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering within the College of Engineering. Dr. Moldwin is also affiliated with the Space Physics Research Laboratory, the Engineering Education Research program, the African Studies Center, the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering, and the Robotics Institute. He is the faculty director of UM’s M-STEM M-Engineering program, past president of AGU’s Education Section, and executive director of NASA’s Michigan Space Grant Consortium. Prior to joining the faculty of UM, Dr. Moldwin was a professor of space physics at UCLA, a professor of physics and space sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Space and Atmospheric Sciences and Nonproliferation and International Security groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received a PhD in astronomy and space physics from Boston University.

JIMEZ ASHBY, JR., is a human capital and organizational transformational practitioner with a focus in industrial–organizational psychology and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) plus justice. Mr. Ashby has several years of highly progressive experience, spanning a wide range, to include human resources and DEIA strategic implementation to human-centered design and workforce planning and analytics. He has worked with clients within higher education, finance, construction, retail, consumer goods, technology, advertising, and health care as well as the federal sector. Mr. Ashby also has a global footprint, having supported workforces and organizations in Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom as well as foreign service and deployed personnel. His community service roles include co-chair for the Council on Access, Equity, and Justice; Human Rights Commissioner—Commonwealth of Virginia; member of the Virginia Commonwealth University Employer Advisory Board; and member of the Society for Human Resource Management. Mr. Ashby received a BA in experiential learning, organizational structure, and cultural diversity from George Mason University.

DOROTHY CARTER is an associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University and director of the Leadership, Innovation, Networks, and Collaboration Laboratory. Dr. Carter’s research interests include efforts to understand how personality and other compositional factors impact team performance, understand the drivers and outcomes of leadership networks within and across teams, develop and validate interventions to support multiteam system performance throughout long-duration space exploration missions to Mars, enable effective leadership and teamwork within scientific research centers, and identify and support the patterns of leadership and communication networks among senior leaders that enable strategic alignment and organizational performance. Dr. Carter received a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

LINDSAY VICTORIA GOODWIN is an assistant professor of physics at the Center for Solar–Terrestrial Research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Prior to this position, Dr. Goodwin was a Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellow; a postdoctoral researcher at NJIT; a postdoctoral associate at Boston University; a graduate student research assistant, tutor, teaching assistant, and instructor at the University of Saskatchewan; and a summer research assistant at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory. She received a PhD in physics from the University of Saskatchewan.

MCARTHUR JONES, JR., is a research physicist with the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory. Prior to joining the Naval Research Laboratory, Dr. Jones was a graduate research assistant at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include studying the mesosphere and lower thermosphere dynamics, modeling of the mesosphere–thermosphere–ionosphere–magnetosphere system, atmospheric tides,

coupling between the upper and lower atmosphere via wave transport, and upper atmospheric climate. Dr. Jones is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship. He received a PhD in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder.

SHERI KLUG BOONSTRA is the PI of NASA’s Lucy Student Pipeline and Competency Enabler Program, which is NASA’s Lucy Asteroid Mission Student Collaboration at Arizona State University (ASU). Ms. Klug Boonstra is also the director of strategic partnerships and co-instructor for the ASU Space Works Program. She has more than 20 years of experience in creating and implementing national NASA STEM education pipeline programs that stretch vertically from precollege to workforce, including as PI for NASA’s largest undergraduate internship program. In addition to these duties, Ms. Klug Boonstra is director of the Mars Education Program, which produced and implemented NASA’s award-winning Mars Student Imaging Project. Ms. Klug Boonstra has worked on multiple NASA projects, including Mars Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rovers, Lucy Asteroid Mission, Mars Sample Return, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and astrobiology projects. Prior to ASU, she was the national director of NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program Internships at the University Space Research Association. Ms. Klug Boonstra received the Excellence in Earth and Space Science Education award from the AGU. She received an MS in Earth science education from Boise State University.

SCOTT McINTOSH is deputy director and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Prior to joining the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Dr. McIntosh was a scientist at Southwest Research Institute, a research scientist at the University Space Research Association, a postdoctoral fellow with the ESA, and a postdoctoral fellow with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include the detection and impact of magnetohydrodynamic waves, the detection and understanding of ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet radiation, and understanding the decadal evolution of the solar plasma. Dr. McIntosh received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Glasgow.

JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ OLIVEROS is an associate research physicist at the Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Space Sciences Laboratory, Dr. Oliveros was affiliated with the National Astronomical Observatory in Colombia and the Department of Physics at the Universidad de los Andes. His research interests include the study of type II and III radio solar bursts, using radiometers on board the twin spacecraft STEREO A and B, and studying flare physics and sunquake generation processes. Dr. Oliveros received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Monash.

ALESSANDRA A. PACINI is a space weather scientist and a heliophysics data steward at NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Prior to joining NOAA/NCEI, Dr. Pacini worked as a research scientist at various science institutes in the United States: University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA), Arecibo Observatory, JHU/APL. Her research interests include space weather, magnetosphere, solar wind, cosmic rays, solar energetic particles, heliospheric modulation, cosmogenic isotopes, atmospheric dynamic/couplings, solar activity manifestations, and related terrestrial phenomena. Dr. Pacini also volunteers as a Space4Women Network Mentor with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, and promotes the spread of quality scientific information to underrepresented groups, motivating girls in STEM and promoting gender equality in the space physics area. She received a PhD in physical science from the University of Oulu, Finland, and a PhD in space geophysics from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil.

KAREEM SORATHIA is a senior staff scientist in the Theory and Modeling Section within the Space Physics group at JHU/APL. Dr. Sorathia’s research interests lie at the intersection of magnetospheric physics, numerical methods, and massive-scale computational science. His current work includes leading the modeling efforts within the NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms. Dr. Sorathia has contributed to and developed computational research models spanning heliophysics, aerospace, Earth science, and astrophysics. He received a PhD in applied mathematics and scientific computation from the University of Maryland.

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