Education
Employment
Publicaions
Honors
Teaching Experience
Recent Service
August 2002 - July 2007:
Graduate
school in the physics department at Montana State University -
Bozeman. PhD degree July, 2007.
May 2004: Masters degree in
physics at MSU - Bozeman.
May 2001: Bachelors degree
in physics and honors with minors in math and German at MSU - Bozeman.
2007 (August) - Present:
Deputy Director, Montana Space Grant Consortium.
2002 (August) - 2007
(August):
Graduate Reasearch Assistant (Solar Physics) and Teacher's Assistant
(Phys), MSU.
2004 (June) - 2006 (May): Manager,
Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT), MSU.
2001 (July) - 2002(July):
Accountant assistant, Charles Maund Imports, Austin, TX
1998 (September) -
2001(June): Research Assistant, Solar Physics Research Group,
MSU.
1998 (January) - 2001(May):
Holography Lab Assistant/Teacher's Assistant, MSU Phys.
2000 (summer): Space
Scholar,
Hanscom Air Force Base in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1999 (summer): Research
Associate,
Goddard NASA Academy in Greenbelt, Maryland.
1998 (February) - May 1999:
Undergraduate
Presenter, Mars Public Outreach Project.
1997 (January) - 1998
(September): Youth ALIVE! Program Manager, Museum of the Rockies.
1996 (summer): NASA SHARP
PLUS
Apprenticeship, San Francisco, CA.
1994 (June) - 1996
(December): Education Intern, Museum of the Rockies.
1) Des Jardins, A.C.,
Canfield, R.C., "Preflare phenomena in eruptive flares", Astrophysical
Journal, Nov 20, 2003.
2) Des Jardins, A.C., Canfield, R.C.,
Longcope, D.W., McLinden, E., Dillman, A., "Signatures
of Magnetic Stress Prior to Three Solar Flares Observed by RHESSI",
Astrophysical Journal, in press.
3) Des Jardins, A.C., Canfield, R.C.,
Longcope, D.W., Fordyce, C., Waitukaitis, S., "Reconnection in Three
Dimentions: The Role of Spines in Three Eruptive Flares", Astrophysical
Journal...
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
1) Des Jardins, A.; Canfield,
R.; Longcope, D.; McLinden, E.; Fordyce, C.; Waitukaitis, S., "Relating
RHESSI Footpoints to Reconnection: the Importance of
Spines and Separators", AGU Dec. 2006.
2) Des Jardins, Angela C.;
Canfield, R.; Longcope, D., "Magnetic Topology of the 29 October 2003
X10 Flare", SPD June 2006.
3) Des Jardins, Angela C.;
Canfield, R.
C., "Preflare Phenomena in Eruptive Flares", SHINE 2004.
4) Colman, A. M.; Canfield,
R.
C., "Preflare Phenomena in Eruptive Flares", AGU June 2001.
PRE-PRINTS:
1) Graduate Student member of
Phi
Kappa Phi national honors society, 2006.
2) Outstanding Student Paper Award,
American
Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, 2001, for paper/poster, "Preflare
Phenomena
in Eruptive Flares".
3) MSU Physics Department's Senior
of the Year, 2001.
4) AAUW Women of Achievement
Award, 2001.
5) Chosen for a position in the
Air Force Summer Space Scholar program, summer 2000.
6) MSU Alumni/Chamber of Commerce
Award for Excellence, 1999.
7) Chosen as one of 23 students
from around the United States to attend the 1999 NASA Goddard Academy
in Greenbelt, Maryland.
8) Honors program member.
9) Dean's List for academic
excellence.
10) Montana State University Greek
System new member of the year for 1998-9.
1) Wrote lab manual for new
physics 312 course, junior level astronomy, 2003-5.
2) Numerous hours in MSU Physics
Department
Help Center, 2002-present.
3) Member of the planning
committee for Expanding Your Horizons at MSU, 2004-present.
4) Museum of the Rockies "Cosmic
Guide" and course instructor for the Cosmic Questions Exhibit, 2005.
5) Attended Center for Astronomy
Education, "Teaching Excellence" workshop, Bozeman, MT, 2005.
6) MSU Peaks and Potentials
instructor, 2005.
7) Lab instructor for physics 312
(2nd semester junior level astronomy), 2005.
8) Lab instructor for physics 311
(1st semester junior level astronomy), 2002-4.
9) Lab instructor for physics 212
(sophomore level electricity and magnetism), 2004.
10) Instructor for several workshops for
Expanding
Your Horizons and Science Olympiad, 2000-present.
11) Lab instructor for junior level physics
of holography course, 1998-2001.
1) Graduate Committee, Physics
Dept.,
MSU, May 2006 - present.
2) Graduate Recruiting Committee,
Physics
Dept., MSU, May 2005 - May 2006.
3) Planning Committee, Expanding
Your
Horizons (EYH), MSU, 2004 - present.
4) BIG Sister with Big Brothers,
Big
Sisters of Gallatin Valley, June 2005 - present.