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2011
Maura Hagan, HAO Scientist and NCAR Deputy Director, elected a 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fellow. Read More »
In addition, Maura Hagan, elected a 2011 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Read More »
Scott McIntosh recent pubs: –Science, 7 January 2011: The origins of hot plasma in the solar corona. See Science »
–Nature, 28 July 2011: Strong Alfvénic Waves.
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Travis Metcalfe, Searching for Sun-like stars with satellites and supercomputers. Read More »
Matthias Rempel awarded the 2011 Karen Harvey Prize for significant contribution to the study of the Sun early in a person's professional career.
2010
Michael Thompson, September 2010, HAO's new director.
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HAO's HiWind LaunchHAO's HiWind, a balloon-borne instrument that measures winds in the thermosphere, was launched from Esrange, Sweden. It ascended about 26 miles (43 kilometers) into the atmosphere and headed west across the Atlantic Ocean, passing above Greenland on its way to Canada in round-the-clock sunlight. Read More »
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HiWind's Recovery MissionHAO's HiWind data and payload was successfully recovered! HiWind is the first balloon-borne FPI to measure the daytime thermospheric winds that are critically needed for space weather research. The HiWind payload has modest pointing requirements combined with a modest weight. Read More »
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K-CoronagraphThe K-Coronagraph successfully completed its PDR (Preliminary Design Review) and will now move forward towards completion of the instrument build in 2012 —starting full operations at Mauna Loa Solar Observatory in the Summer of 2013. See Photo »
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Slowdown in Solar ActivityThe Sun drives our climate, so a slowdown in solar activity would surely put the brakes on global warming—wouldn't it? That question percolated through the media at a recent solar physics meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Sun-Earth Connections ExhibitAn exciting new exhibit was completed in May and is now open to staff and public at NCAR's Mesa Lab. Sun-Earth Connections, a joint project between EO and HAO, is located on the lab's mezzanine opposite the Main Seminar Room. Read More »
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Haosheng Lin has been an HAO affiliate scientist since 2003. He is an astronomer in the Solar Physics group of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii.
Haosheng specializes in instrumentation for solar physics and infrared measurements of solar magnetic fields. After obtaining his PhD from Michigan State University, he worked at the National Solar Observatory in Sacramento Peak, NM, before taking up his present appointment at the University of Hawaii.
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Dr. Chihoko Yamashita (University of Colorado) has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled "Atmospheric Coupling Through Gravity Waves During Stratospheric Sudden Warming". Chihoko's research has been supported by the HAO Newkirk Graduate Student Fellowship for the last four years. She has been very productive and was the Second Place Winner (2009 and 2010) and First Place Winner (2011) in CEDAR Student Poster Competitions. Her work was also highlighted in the July 2011 issue (page 19) of SPARC (Stratospheric Processes And Their Role In Climate) Newsletter. See Chihoko Yamashita's 2010 Profile in Science— Read More »