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Member Since 1998
Elizabeth MacDonald
Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Member, Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
Experimental space plasma physicist
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Professional Experience
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientist
2014 - Present
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2012 - Present
Los Alamos National Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Education
University of New Hampshire Main Campus
Doctorate
2004
Honors & Awards
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach (SPARC) Award
Received December 2021
Publications
The Mysterious Green Streaks Below STEVE
Strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (STEVE) is an optical phenomenon of the subauroral ionosphere arising from extreme ion drift speeds. S...
November 09, 2020
Early Ground-Based Work by Auroral Pioneer Carl Størmer on t...
February 28, 2020
Low-Resource Technique for Measurement of H+ and O+ in the T...
November 26, 2019
Identifying STEVE's Magnetospheric Driver Using Conjugate Ob...
November 21, 2019
The Evolution of the Plasma Sheet Ion Composition: Storms an...
December 11, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Exploring Hemispheric Asymmetries with MAAX - A NASA Small Explorer Concept Study
AGU 2024
spa-aeronomy | 13 december 2024
Aaron J. Ridley, Michael W. Liemohn, Daniel T. Wel...
The energy coupling between the solar wind and magnetosphere and the internal dynamics within the tail of the magnetosphere have both been shown to be...
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Unveiling the Turbulence Features of the Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement (STEVE) Phenomenon.
AGU 2024
spa-aeronomy | 12 december 2024
Francesca Di Mare, Elizabeth MacDonald, Michael Hu...
STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) is a fascinating auroral-like phenomenon characterized by a distinct appearance of white/mauve an...
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Remotely Sensing Magnetospheric Energy Flow with the Magnetospheric Auroral Asymmetry eXplorer
AGU 2024
spa-magnetospheric physics | 09 december 2024
Michael W. Liemohn, Daniel T. Welling, Aaron J. Ri...
Observations of the aurora have been used as a window to probe and understand the dynamics of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere (SWMI) system. N...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2025
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
2021 - 2021
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Fall Meeting Program Committee
2021 - 2021
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Fall Meeting Program Committee
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