Member Since 2010
Caitano L. da Silva
Associate Professor of Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Associate Professor of Physics and a Scientist at Langmuir Lab, New Mexico Tech
Professional Experience
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Associate Professor of Physics
2018 - Present
Education
Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Doctorate
2015
INPE National Institute for Space Research
Masters
2011
UFSM Federal University of Santa Maria
Bachelors
2008
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Honors & Awards
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Early Career Award
Received December 2024
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2013
Presentation Title: On the Vertical Structuring of Gigantic Jets
Event: 2013 Fall Meeting
Awarding Section: Atmospheric and Space Electricity
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Publications
Estimating the Electric Fields Driving Lightning Dart Leader Development With BIMAP‐3D Observations
In this paper, a numerical dart leader model has been implemented to understand the leader's development and the corresponding electric field chang...
December 03, 2024
Modeling the Inception and Stepped Propagation of Upward Pos...
November 26, 2024
Sprite Durations Measured With a Neuromorphic Sensor
June 29, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Ground-based observations of sprites with neuromorphic sensors
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 11 december 2024
Caitano L. da Silva, Brandon Smith, Matthew G. McH...
Neuromorphic sensors have inherently-fast speeds and low data rates, which potentially make them ideal for the observation of transient sources, such ...
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Computational Study on the Inception Mechanism of Dart Leaders
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
John Pantuso, Caitano L. da Silva, Daniel Jensen, ...
Dart leaders are a category of leader discharges which propagate at high speeds traversing decaying channels previously established by lightning activ...
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Patterns of lightning incidence in New Mexico
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Emma Stover, Caitano L. da Silva
Lightning plays an important role in the atmospheric system being the main non-anthropogenic source of nitrogen oxides in the troposphere, and by bein...
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