Sabrina L. Savage, Ph.D.

01/2005 - 11/2010       Montana State University       Bozeman, MT

- Ph.D. in Physics with an emphasis in Solar Physics

09/2002 - 12/2004       University of Wyoming       Laramie, WY

- M.S. in Physics with an emphasis in Astronomy

09/1998 - 05/2002       University of South Alabama       Mobile, AL

- B.S. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics

- Summa Cum Laude with 4.0 GPA

08/2012 - ...       NASA Marshall Space Flight Center       Huntsville, AL

- Research Astrophysicist

- Hinode Deputy Project Scientist


12/2011 - 07/2011       NASA Goddard Space Flight Center       Greenbelt, MD

- NASA Postdoc Program Fellow

- determining the true nature of supra-arcade downflows using AIA (i.e. identifying density depletions in the current sheet behind retracting loops)

- researching particle acceleration associated with long duration solar flares using observations from EUV and SXR instruments combined with HXR from RHESSI

- analyzed possible reconnection inflow to outflow observations for a flare occurring on November 3, 2010


01/2005 - 11/2010       Montana State University       Bozeman, MT

- attended the Cartwheel CME workshop at SAO in August 2008 and presented work on downflow detections

- presented a SADs poster at a campus-wide science symposium

- XRT Chief Observer
(One 3-week assignment in Japan and several one-week remote assignments from the US. This involves coordinating observations with the other on-board instrument teams (SOT, EIS) as well as any other space-and ground-based instrument teams involved with the observations and then creating a specific observing plan to be sent to the spacecraft.)

- XRT Data Verifier
(Several one-week assignments. This involves checking all of the data that was taken by XRT during the week to ensure that the images are taken as expected and align with the science goals while monitoring spacecraft conditions.)

- Science Olympiad captain

- REU student mentor / co-advisor for analyzing Supra-Arcade Downflows (3 summers)

- Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT) presenter (of current NASA science missions to Montana K-12 schools)

- Cosmic Questions guide: helped explain a cosmology exhibit at the Museum of the Rockies to the public

- Teacher/Research Assistant


(06-08)/2003       NASA Goddard Space Flight Center       Greenbelt, MD

- USRA student researching GRBs using relativisitic hydrodynamics

- developed data reduction routines for detecting GRBs


09/2002 - 12/2004       University of Wyoming       Laramie, WY

- presented a poster for the 2003 GRB conference in Sante Fe, NM on RBO/WIRO GRB contributions and capabilities (Publication #4)

- observed faint, young galaxies with the 2.1-m telescope at Kitt Peak (AZ)

- worked with the WIRO-Goddard Infrared Camera

- GRB senior mentor

- Teacher/Graduate Assistant

- Aided in making an off-campus observatory, RBO, remotely accessible


(06-08)/2001       University of Wyoming       Laramie, WY

- SURAP-REU student: reduced and researched variable star data provided by the Planetary Science Institute

- Gained observing experience at RBO and WIRO

Low-Altitude Reconnection Inflow-Outflow Observations during a 2010 November 3 Eruption
(ADS Link)
S.L. Savage, G. Holman, K.K. Reeves, D.B. Seaton, D.E. McKenzie, Y. Su 2012, ApJ, 754, 13

Re-interpretation of Supra-Arcade Downflows in Solar Flares
(ADS Link)
S.L. Savage, D.E. McKenzie, K.K. Reeves 2012, ApJL, 747, 40

Distribution Functions of Sizes and Fluxes Determined from Supra-Arcade Downflows
(ADS Link)
D.E. McKenzie & S.L. Savage 2011, ApJL, 735, L6

Quantitative Examination of a Large Sample of Supra-arcade Downflows in Eruptive Solar Flares
(ADS Link)
S.L. Savage and D.E. McKenzie, ApJ, 730, 98, 2011.

Reconnection Outflows and Current Sheet Observed with Hinode/XRT in the 2008 April 9 "Cartwheel CME" Flare
(ADS Link)
S.L. Savage, D.E. McKenzie, K.K. Reeves, T.G. Forbes, D.W. Longcope, ApJ, 722, 329, 2010.

Quantitative Examination of Supra-Arcade Downflows in Eruptive Solar Flares
(ADS Link)
D.E. McKenzie and S.L. Savage, ApJ, 697 2 pp. 1569-1577, 2009.

Posteruptive phenomena in coronal mass ejections and substorms: Indicators of a universal process?
(ADS Link)
K.K. Reeves et al, JGRA, 13 A7, CiteID A00B02, 2008.

Complex Dynamic Flows in Solar Flare Sheet Structures - poster 1
D.E. McKenzie, K.K. Reeves, S.L. Savage
Termal Structure of Supra-Arcade Plasma in Two Solar Flares - poster 2
K.K. Reeves, S.L. Savage, D.E. McKenzie, M.A. Weber
SHINE Workshop. Maui, HI June 2012.

Re-interpretation of Supra-arcade Downflows above Solar Flares - oral presentation
S.L. Savage, D.E. McKenzie, K.K. Reeves. AAS/SPD Meeting. Anchorage, AK June 2012.

Low-Altitude Reconnection Inflow-Outflow Observations During a 2010 November 3 Eruption - oral presentation & proceedings paper
S.L. Savage, G. Holman, K.K. Reeves, D.B. Seaton, & D.E. McKenzie. Hinode 5 Meeting. Cambridge, MA October 2011

Using Supra-Arcade Downflows as Probes of Electron Acceleration During Solar Flares - poster presentation
S.L. Savage. SPD Meeting. Las Cruces, NM 2011

Using Supra-Arcade Downflows as Probes of Electron Acceleration During Solar Flares - oral presentation
S.L. Savage. RHESSI 11 Meeting. Glasgow, UK April 2011

A Multi-Wavelength Statistical Study of Supra-Arcade Downflows - oral presentation & poster proceedings paper
(ADS Link)
S.L. Savage & D.E. McKenzie. Hinode 4 Meeting. Mondello, IT October 2010.

Shrinking Loops Observations for the 2008 April 9 Flare - poster & poster proceedings paper
S.L. Savage, D.E. McKenzie, K.K. Reeves, T.G. Forbes. Hinode 3 Meeting. Tokyo, Japan December 2009

Quantitative Examination of Supra-arcade Downflows in Eruptive Solar Flares - Student Oral Presentation
S. Savage & D.E. McKenzie, Solar Heliospheric & Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop Meeting. Wolfville, NS August 2009

Observations and analysis of the April 9, 2008 CME using STEREO, Hinode, TRACE, and SoHO data - Oral presentation delivered by K. Reeves
K.K. Reeves (and 16 other authors), American Geophysical Union (AGU). Fall Meeting 2008

Detecting and Measuring Reconnection Outflows in the Hinode Era - poster & poster proceedings paper
S.L. Savage & D.E. McKenzie, The Second Hinode Meeting: Beyond Discovery Toward Understanding, ASPC (2009), 415, 455

Supra-Arcade Downflows: Results from Observational Analysis
D.E. McKenzie, S.L. Savage, J.E. Tolan, 2007, New Solar Physics with Solar-B Mission (2005), Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASPC), 369, 489

SADS for SADs: Semi-Automatic Detection Software for Supra-Arcade Downflows - poster
S.L. Savage, D.E. McKenzie, L. McLaughlin, American Astronomical Society Meeting - Solar Physics Division (AAS/SPD). Honolulu, HI May 2007. Also presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2007

Quantitative Examination of Observed Reconnection Outflows - poster & poster proceedings paper
D.E. McKenzie and S.L. Savage 2006, AAS/SPD Summer Meeting, 38, 251

The University of Wyoming GRB Afterglow Follow-Up Program - poster & poster proceedings paper
S.L. Savage, J.P. Norris, A.S. Kutyrev, M. Pierce, R. Canterna 2004, AIP Conference Proceedings GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: 30 YEARS OF DISCOVERY: Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, 727, 745

- Goddard Space Flight Center, Reconnexion Physics Forum (July 2012)

- University of Maryland (March 2012)

- Dickinson College (February 2012)

- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (September 2011)

- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Director's Seminar (August 2011)

- SAO (April 2011)

- Utah State University (March 2011)

- SHINE 2012 (Maui, HI)

- AAS/SPD 2012 (Anchorage, AK)

- RHESSI XI 2011 (Glasgow, Scotland)

- Hinode [V 2011 (Boston, MA), IV 2010 (Palermo, Italy), III 2009 (Tokyo, Japan), II 2008 (Boulder, CO)]

- SPD [2011 (Las Cruces, NM), 2010 (Miami, FL), 2007 (Honolulu, HI)]

- SHINE 2009 (Wolfville, Nova Scotia)

- CAWSES 2008 (Bozeman, MT)

- AGU 2008 (San Francisco, CA)

- Poster Judge: AAS/SPD 2012, MSFC Summer Intern poster session 2012

- Montana Space Grant Consortium Presenter - Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT), [2006 - 2008]

- Peaks and Potential Instructor: Exploration of the Solar System, [Montana State University, June 2006]

- Science Olympiad Captain: Experimental Design, [Montana State University, November 2005]

- Exhibit Interpreter: Cosmic Questions, [Museum of the Rockies, Summer 2005]

Data Reduction / Analysis

- Instruments:

Yohkoh/SXT
Hinode/XRT
TRACEM
SOHO/LASCO
STEREO/SECCHI
SDO/AIA
RHESSI
[FERMI]

- Primary Programming Language: IDL
  Other Languages: Mathematica, HTML, Perl[, Learning Python]

- Observatories used: XRT aboard Hinode, WIRO 2.3-m, RBO 0.6-m, Kitt Peak 2.1-m

- Satellite instrument operation duties performed for XRT aboard Hinode

SADS for SADs: Semi-Automatic Detection Software for Supra-Arcade Downflows
S.L. Savage and D.E. McKenzie

- An IDL suite of programs designed to semi-automatically and/or manually detect, track, and extract size, trajectory, and magnetic information from flows associated with solar flares.


XRT History Search Form
S.L. Savage

http://solar.physics.montana.edu/HINODE/XRT/XOB_history/xrt_hist_search.html

- A webform useful for searching through XRT's previously-scheduled operations with various parameters such as time, filter set, FOV, etc.

Presidential Scholarship ($3000/yr 1998-2002)
Alabama Space Grant Consortium Scholarship ($500/semester 2001/02)
Women's Assistantship ($10,062 2002-03)
Valedictorian
Summa Cum Laude
Golden Key International Honor Society
Sigma Pi Sigma
Society of Physics Students
Alpha Theta Chi
Alpha Chi
Phi Eta Sigma
Phi Kappa Phi
2002 Outstanding Physics Graduate Award