Geoffrey D. Reeves
Professional Experience:
1981-1983: Undergraduate Research, University of Colorado.
1983-1988: Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University.
Thesis advisor, Peter M. Banks.
1989-1991: Post-doctoral research associate at Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
April-October, 1997: Joint appointment with Max Planck Institut
für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
1991-1999: Staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1999-present: Group Leader for Space & Atmospheric Sciences,
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Research & Activities in Space Plasma Physics:
- Co-Investigator on: LANL/GEO, POLAR/CEPPAD, POLAR/CAMMICE,
& CLUSTER/RAPID investigations.
- Active in Space Weather activities including support of Air
Force Technical Applications Center & 55th Space Weather
Squadron and P.I. for a Los Alamos Industrial Partnership with
Hughes Space Communications Co.
- Involved in analysis of data from a variety of satellites
including: WIND, POLAR, GALILEO, GEOTAIL, DMSP, HEO, GPS, SAMPEX,
GOES, CRRES, IMP-8, Viking, Freja, and LANL geosynchronous satellites
and comparison of satellite data with ground-based observations
including magnetometers and radars.
- Research topics of interest include: substorms, storms, relativistic
electron events, solar proton events, effects of space environment
on spacecraft and operations, radiation belt structure and dynamics,
magnetic field models and mapping, and energetic particle boundaries
in the magnetosphere.
- Recent studies include:
- Energetic Neutral Atom imaging of the earth's magnetosphere
using the POLAR/CEPPAD/IPS instrument.
- Studies of radiation belt structure & dynamics and the
effects on satellite systems including the Telstar 401 and Galaxy
IV satellite failures.
- Observationally testing the magnetic mapping between geosynchronous
orbit and the auroral ionosphere by comparing the spectra measured
at low altitude by DMSP and at high altitude by Los Alamos detectors.
- Substorm studies particularly observational determination
of the size, shape, and propagation of the substorm injection
region using multi-satellite observations and numerical modeling.
Also numerous studies of substorm timing comparing injection
times with onset times seen in Pi2 pulsations, magnetic bays,
field dipolarization, ionospheric radar data, bursty bulk flows,
plasmoid formation, traveling compression regions (TCRs), etc.
Publications: (available by request or at http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/reeves/publications.html)
1 book (editor)
3 articles in books (other than proceedings)
26 first-author publications
183 co-author publications
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