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Member Since 2007
Romina Nikoukar
Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Member, Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee; Associate Editor, Space Weather
Professional Experience
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Senior Scientist
2014 - Present
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctorate
2010
Publications
Source of the Observed Enhancements in Thermospheric ΣO/N2 During Two Solar Eclipses in 2023
Two solar eclipse events in 2023 appeared to produce considerable enhancements in the thermospheric column density ratio of monatomic oxygen to mol...
July 26, 2024
Modeling Radiation Belt Electrons With Information Theory In...
August 29, 2022
Proton and Helium Ion Acceleration at Magnetotail Plasma Jet...
August 06, 2022
Evidence for Nonadiabatic Oxygen Energization in the Near‐Ea...
February 16, 2021
AGU Abstracts
GNEISS: an auroral ionospheric sounding rocket campaign for a heterogeneous system science case study of auroral current closure
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 12 december 2024
Kristina A. Lynch, John W. Bonnell, Meghan Burleig...
The Geophysical Non-Equilibrium Ionospheric System Science (GNEISS) auroral sounding rocket campaign is in design for a January/February 2026 nightsid...
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Preparing for the Termination Shock Encounter with New Horizons
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Pontus C. Brandt, Matthew E. Hill, Heather A. Elli...
Across the Termination Shock (TS) the solar wind was expected to transition from supersonic to subsonic and heat by two orders of magnitude. Voyager 2...
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A “Valley” in Heliospheric Energetic Particle Intensities and Implications for a New Horizons Encounter with the Solar Wind Termination Shock
AGU 2024
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Romina Nikoukar, Matthew E. Hill, Robert B. Decker...
Launched in 2006, the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft is currently at 59 au from the Sun and expected to observe the solar wind termination shock (TS) as...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2027
Associate Editor
Space Weather
2023 - 2024
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Fall Meeting Program Committee
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