Welcome to the Space Physics Group at the University of Otago.

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This webpage is no longer being maintained. Please go to our new webpage, and update any links to this page:
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/nx/space/space-physics-home.html

 

 

   Please take the time to:

• read about our research interests, or goto the AARDDVARK or WWLLN main webpages.

• peruse a list of our recent publications

• learn about some of our recent and current projects

• visit the homepage of the CHemical Aeronomy in the Mesosphere and Ozone in the Stratosphere (CHAMOS) science team

• view some images of Space Physics Group members, at home and abroad

• look over some research opportunities for interested students

• visit some of our collaborators

• Read the Physics Today article on the research undertaken by Otago PhD student Rory Gamble , published in the August 2008 issue of this publication.
• Space Physics student Rory Gamblewins an URSI Young Scientist Award to travel to Chicago. Afterwards he goes to Cambridge (UK) and also to Hungary.
• Hear the interview with Dr. Craig Rodger on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "The Science Show", broadcast across Australia on 10 November 2007.
• Otago Space Physics Group reports on the environmental effects of manmade control of the Radiation belts. US satellite protection scheme poses global communications threat .
  Read the New Scientist piece commenting on our research.
• Hear the interview with Dr. Craig Rodger on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "The Science Show", broadcast across Australia on 5 August 2006.
• Space Physics student Robert McCormick wins an URSI Young Scientist Award and meets the President of India!
• Emeritus Professor Dowden gives the Fourth Annual Mindlin Lecture at the University of Washington, Seattle.
• See the video interview with Dr. Craig Rodger on the Royal Society of New Zealand's E=mc² website.
• Dr. Craig Rodger is awarded a University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2004).
• Otago Space Physics Group Measures Whopping Solar Flare
  Read our press release announcing the new measurement.
  The paper describing our work is now published in Geophysical Research Letters (subscription required)
  More information? How about this BBC Science report, or the SOHO imagery of this flare.
• Otago Space Physics discoveries on whistler-induced particle precipitation made
  highlight of Geophysical Research Letters (Rodger et al., 2002).
• Otago Space Physics discoveries on lightning EMP made highlight and cover of
  Geophysical Research Letters (Rodger et al., 2001). This is the first time a lead
  author from the southern hemisphere has made the cover of this journal.
• Results from our sprite finding trips to Darwin Australia 1997 and Colorado USA 1996.

  Other useful Space Physics links:

• VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of Ionospheres and Magnetospheres (VERSIM)
• Oulu Space Physics Text Book
• Long range lightning detection at VLF. The experimental World Wide Lightning Location network.
• Space Physics Interactive Data (SPIDR)
• American Geophysical Union
• Sprites on the Web
• Solar Terrestrial Physics Laboratory (STPL)
• WINDII (WIND Imaging Interferometer)
• UARS
• GPS links
• Earth Science Journals

  Aurora image taken by Dennis Mammana and displayed on the

   NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day website as 'Comet and Aurora Over Alaska'