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Recent and Current Projects

  • "Pollution" of near-Earth space and the impact of large military radio transmitters

  • Improving the detection efficiency of the World Wide Lightning Location Network

  • Radiation Belt Remediation

  • Examining the source of Dunedin-observed whistlers

  • Subionospheric detection of relativistic microburst precipitation

  • Ionospheric Disturbances and the van Allen Radiation Belts

  • Significance of red sprites to the neutral atmosphere

  • Extracting and processing particle and wave data from an Earth orbiting satellite

  • Effect of Relativistic Electron Precipitation upon the upper atmosphere

  • Automatic whistler-detection and scaling from New Zealand observations

  • Calibration and Detection Efficiency of the World Wide Lightning Location Network

  • Effects of Solar Proton Events upon the high-latitude upper atmosphere

  • Examination of DEMETER satellite data for electrical network control tones

  • Ionospheric changes due to solar flares

  • Long range ionospheric remote sensing from lightning waveforms

  • Calculation of radiation fields from the Dunedin Electricity ripple control signal

  • Lifetimes of radiation belt particles due to lightning-generated whistlers

  • Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) in New Zealand

  • Automated software for VLF recording using the Delta1010

  • Are whistler ducts created by Thunderstorm DC fields?

  • Single station lightning detection and location

  • Ambient condition of the daytime lower ionosphere

  • Solar flare modifications to the lower ionosphere

  • Effects of precipitation from lightning generated whistlers on the lower ionosphere

  • Scattering of VLF from plasma columns (Red Sprites)

  • Time signature of VLF Sprites

  • Optical observations of Red Sprites

  • ELF/VLF broadband signature of Elves and Sprites

  • Precision GPS corrected oscillator

  • GPS satellite time to measure precise VLF subionospheric phase

  • Ozone research

  • VLF electromagnetic precursors to earthquakes

  • Lightning location by time-of-arrival of VLF sferics at multiple receivers

  • Piezo-electric effects in NZ rocks


 
   
  Updated by Robert McCormick [August 2009]