Burlaga/Arctowski Medal Fellowship

The Dr. Leonard F. Burlaga/Arctowski Medal Fellowship is equivalent to a 50%-time Graduate Assistantship during the summer. The fellowship will be awarded to a full-time graduate student in good standing with exceptional potential in their field. They must be enrolled in the School of Physics and Astronomy working toward a graduate degree and associated with the Space Physics Group.

Give to the Burlaga/Arctowski Medal Fellowship

Jack Crump: "I grew up in DFW Texas, went to high school in Springfield, Illinois and then went to undergrad at Haverford College just outside of Philadelphia. I am in the space physics group doing research on the interaction between the solar wind and Uranus's magnetosphere. Specifically I have been analyzing results of large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations and studying magnetic reconnection on Uranus's magnetopause."

Dorcas Oseni: "My research is in Space physics and I enjoy doing scientific studies on solar eruptions and exploring their underlying connections and properties. I am currently involved in the IMPISH instrumentation project that will measure hard x-rays from solar flares with high time precision and speed. I am also working on DESPINA project that will use pulsars for navigation and timing in deep-space missions."

Nicholas Kruegler: "I research Jupiter's magnetosphere and auroras. Currently, I work with data from the Juno spacecraft to better understand the acceleration of the particles that generate Jupiter’s aurora. Interactions between waves and particles are understood to be the main driver of electron precipitation into the main aurora, so I seek to constrain these wave-particle interactions by studying the spatial variation of important plasma properties above the aurora."

Reed Masek

Reed is from Houston, Texas. "My research interest is in solar physics. Specifically, I look at the Sun, primarily in X-rays, to observe very faint solar flares. Since they're more difficult to observe than brighter, larger flares, less known about them, and I am using the very sensitive NuSTAR telescope to perform a statistical study in an attempt to better understand their properties."

Marianne Peterson

Khilav Majmudar

Jessie Duncan

Jessie is originally from Charlotte, NC. With the support of the Burlaga Fellowship, she will spend this summer continuing her analysis of data from an observation of the sun by the NuSTAR telescope. She works on both data analysis and detector development for high energy x-ray observation of the sun.

Aaron West

Aaron grew up in Edmonds, WA and has a B.S. in Comprehensive Physics from the University of Washington. The Burlaga Fellowship will support his research for summer 2019, establishing a model for plasma waves in Earth's magnetosphere. His research focuses on the intricacies of wave propagation and interaction with other waves, particles, and the earth's atmosphere. The goal is to refine predictive technologies to make space travel safer and help ground-based facilities withstand magnetic fluctuations caused by solar activity.

Evan Tyler

Evan moved around a lot growing up: North Carolina, New Mexico, Germany, and Virginia. He plans to use the fellowship to attend the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) conference and the Solar Heliospheric & INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) conference in order to present two of his research projects. Tyler will also be working on preparing this research during the Summer, as well as continuing his work as the Outreach Coordinator for MIfA. Tyler's research focus is on reconnection in the magnetotail and on high-amplitude whistler waves in the magnetosphere, using in-situ satellite measurements to study energy flows and particle dynamics in these events.