Occupation:

Research Assistant at the Wm. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas

Other Activities:

2006 Summer Physics Camp Director
2005-2006 Outreach Coordinator, Women in Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas
2005 Summer Physics Camp Director
2004-2005 President, Women in Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas
2004 Summer Physics Camp Director
2003-2004 Founder and President, Women in Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas
2002-2003 Vice-President, Society of Physics Students, The University of Texas at Dallas
2001-2002 Vice-President, Society of Physics Students, The University of Texas at Dallas

Papers:

Saturation of the ionospheric polar cap potential during the October-November 2003 superstorms , Marc R. Hairston, Kelly Ann Drake, and Routh Skoug, J. Geophys. Res., 110(A09S26, doi:10.1029/2004JA10864,2005.

"Extreme Solar Wind Ram Pressure Effects on the Ionospheric Potential", 2003 AAPT/SPS undergraduate research paper presentation

Posters:

2006 CEDAR poster: "A Comparison of the Cross Polar Cap Potential Drop During Steady State vs. Non-Steady State For Southward IMF Conditions"

2003 CEDAR poster: "Online Database for Thermal Ionospheric Plasma Data from DMSP", w/ Marc Hairston and Robin Coley

2002 Fall AGU poster: "Study of the Polar Cap Potential Under Conditions of Large Solar Wind Ram Pressures", w/ Marc Hairston

2002 CEDAR undergraduate research poster: "Measurements of the Saturated Cross-Polar Cap Potential During Periods when Bz<-20nT"

Awards:

2006 Spirit of Women Award - "Feminist Ally" , UTD Galerstein Women's Center,   News

2002 Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society

Dissertation Proposal - March 17, 2006:

IDENTIFYING THE SOURCES OF VARIABILITY IN THE ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION APPLIED TO THE HIGH LATITUDE IONOSPHERE

Presentation from the proposal

Research Advisor

Dr. Roderick A. Heelis, Director,
Wm. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences
phone: (972)883-2851
fax: (972)883-2761
e-mail: heelis@utdallas.edu
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