The annual Living Planet Fellowship workshop will take place online on 03 December. On this occasion, the Living Planet Fellows will present their research projects and their scientific results, will exchange ideas and interact with ESA scientists, fellows and YGTs, showcasing scientific exploitation of Copernicus Sentinels, ESA Earth Explorers, the long-term series of ESA data …
Devin is a postdoctoral fellow in Space Physics at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He obtained his B.Eng. (2010), M.Sc. (2013), and Ph.D. (2019) at the University of Saskatchewan, with his Ph.D. focused on the design, construction, and operation of a novel coherent scatter radar system to measure plasma density irregularities in the E-region …
Some of the strongest lightning discharges occurring at the Earth surface generate short electromagnetic signals that can propagate at very large distances both at the surface of the planet and in space. During a lightning discharge, the whole electromagnetic spectrum is excited, from radio frequencies to the visible and beyond. The conditions of the atmosphere …
The annual Living Planet Fellowship workshop took place on 25 November at ESRIN. On this occasion, the Living Planet Fellows completing the first of their 2-year research projects had the possibility to get together, present their results, exchange ideas and interact with ESA scientists, fellows and YGTs. The full day workshop featured presentations that showcased …
Brought to the interest of the scientific community by the citizen Aurora Chasers group of amateur photographers and enthusiasts, the intriguing nighttime optical phenomenon which got its name “Steve” after an animated movie scene, got an honorary “Sky Wonders” coin, issued by the Canadian Coin & Currency. ESA Living Planet Fellow William Archer with the University …
New research published in Geophysical Research Letters investigates in-situ ionospheric plasma measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellites coincident with ground-based optical measurements of the phenomenon known as “Steve”. The authors show that Steve is consistently associated with narrow ionospheric flow channels called subauroral ion drifts (SAID). These observations are unusually intense with faster …
William complete his graduate degrees at the University of Calgary in 2017 under the supervision of Dr. David Knudsen. The title of his doctoral thesis was “Birkeland current boundary flows”, a nighttime auroral phenomena resulting in fast and narrow ionospheric flow channels during geomagnetically quiet conditions. Since then he has been working as a post-doctoral …
Ivan graduated with a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and went on to finish a PhD at the same university in Space Systems under the Automatic Systems and Control Engineering department. Working in Prof Michael Balikhin’s research lab, he studied electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves using the ESA Cluster …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by William Edward Archer. The European Space Agency Swarm satellite mission is advancing the cutting edge of ionospheric space physics. Combined high-resolution measurements of electron density, electron temperature, and electric and magnetic fields provide a robust picture of the electrodynamics of this energetic region. We will leverage the …
