Ellen Cousins (nee Pettigrew) successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis at Dartmouth College

By: miker on: Wed., July 18, 2012 01:27 PM EDT (9944 Reads)

Ellen is the student of Dr. Simon Shepherd, PI for the Oregon MSI/SuperDARN radars. The thesis defense took place at Dartmouth College on July 17. The title of Ellen's thesis is

"Statistical Analysis And Empirical Modeling Of Large- And Small-Scale Plasma Drifts In Earth's High-Latitude Ionospheres"

Ellen visited with the VT SuperDARN group for 3 productive months in 2009.

Dr. Cousins will be starting a postdoc at HAO/NCAR in September working with Art Richmond and Tomoko Matsuo. As Simon says, hopefully we can convince Ellen to remain part of the SuperDARN community!

To access the archive of Dartmouth College statistical convection models see:

http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/superdarn/models.html

For more items related to Ellen's research and that of the Dartmouth College group see:

http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/superdarn/index.html

Ph.D. related publications:

•Cousins, E. D. P. and S. G. Shepherd (2012), Statistical characteristics of small-scale spatial and temporal electric field variability in the high-latitude ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A03317, doi:10.1029/2011JA017383.

•Cousins, E. D. P., and S. G. Shepherd (2010), A dynamical model of high-latitude convection derived from SuperDARN plasma drift measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A12329, doi:10.1029/2010JA016017.

•Pettigrew, E. D., S. G. Shepherd, and J. M. Ruohoniemi (2010), Climatological patterns of high-latitude convection in the Northern and Southern hemispheres: Dipole tilt dependencies and interhemispheric comparisons, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A07305, doi:10.1029/2009JA014956.

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Ellen Cousins (nee Pettigrew) successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis at Dartmouth College

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