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Member Since 2011
Kristie LLera
R&D Group Leader, Southwest Research Institute
AGU member since 2011. She received a Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA). She is an R&D Group Leader for the magnetosphere and ionosphere group at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)'s space science and engineering division. Currently studies the interaction between the solar wind and celestial objects (Earth's magnetosphere, comets, etc.), along with developing designs for space instrumentaion.
Professional Experience
Southwest Research Institute
R&D Group Leader
2018 - Present
Southwest Research Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher
2018 - 2019
Southwest Research Institute
Graduate research assistant (GRA)
2011 - 2017
University of Texas at San Antonio
graduate research assistant
2011 - 2017
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Education
University of Texas at San Antonio
Doctorate
Current Roles
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
Publications
Tracking Magnetopause Motion Using Cold Plasmaspheric Ions
We demonstrate that any plasmaspheric/cold ions accelerated in the vicinity of the magnetopause boundary, can proxy the local magnetopause motion o...
November 01, 2023
Plasma Properties in the Earth's Magnetosheath Near the Subs...
October 19, 2023
Solar Wind Protons Forming Partial Ring Distributions at Com...
February 03, 2023
Reconnection X‐Line Orientations at the Earth's Magnetopause
November 24, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Flight Model Development of the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor on the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 Mission
MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SPACE PLASMA III ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 12 december 2023
Robert W. Ebert, Pat Mokashi, Heather A. Elliott, ...
The Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) is an instrument on the upcoming joint NOAA/NASA Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) mission. The SWFO-L...
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Reconnection x-line orientations at the Earth’s magnetopause
INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS OF MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: STATE-OF-THE-ART SPACECRAFT OBSERVATIONS AND SIMULATIONS I ELIGHTNING
spa-magnetospheric physics | 15 december 2021
Stephen A. Fuselier, James Webster, Karlheinz J. T...
Observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission in and near Electron Diffusion Regions (EDRs) at the Earths magnetopause are used to det...
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Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object
CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE PLANETARY SCIENCE MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS II ELIGHTNING
planetary sciences | 17 december 2020
Kimberly Moore, Samuel W. Courville, Kyle Connour,...
The discovery of exoplanets has revealed an astounding diversity of planetary systems. Studying these systems is essential to improving our understand...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2025
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
2024 - 2024
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
2022 - 2023
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
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