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Member Since 1990
Jim A. Klimchuk
Research Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/james.a.klimchuk
Professional Experience
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2012 - Present
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Research Astrophysicist
2008 - Present
Education
University of Colorado Boulder
Doctorate
1985
Honors & Awards
Eugene Parker Lecture
Received December 2021
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AGU Abstracts
Loss of Current Sheet Equilibrium as a Pathway to Reconnection Onset
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
James A. Klimchuk, N Dylan Kee, James E. Leake
Understanding why current sheets do not reconnect until substantial stress has built up in a magnetic field is fundamental to explaining a wide range ...
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Is coronal energy release required to produce transition region and chromospheric blue shifts?
NEW INSIGHTS INTO CORONAL PHYSICS FROM EUV AND UV SPECTROSCOPY II POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Lars K. Daldorff, Craig Johnston, Shanwlee Sow Mon...
One way to investigate energy release in solar active regions is by studying blue shifted emission from non-thermal electrons that are accelerated dur...
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CubeSat Imaging X-ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS): science motivation and current development status for a new 16U mission to understand heating of coronal plasma in solar flares and active regions
SMALL MISSIONS, BIG RESULTS: EXPLORING THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT I POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Amir Caspi, P. S. Athiray, Will Barnes, Chun Ming ...
The CubeSat Imaging X-ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS) is a 16U CubeSat funded under NASA H-FORT. CubIXSS is motivated by a compelling overarching sci...
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Volunteer Experience
2017 - 2019
Member
Union Fellows Committee
2015 - 2016
Immediate Past President
Space Physics and Aeronomy Executive Committee
2013 - 2014
President
Space Physics and Aeronomy Executive Committee