Performance Overview

 

Education

One PhD Thesis completed in 2010 (Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo)

1 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) student involved (Jonathan Constable).

 

Awards

Andrés Moz-Jaramillo: 2011 Scarf Award and LWS Jack Eddy Fellowship: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=9941

Piet Martens:  2011 MSU College of Letters and Science Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity.

Dibyendu Nandi: 2008 Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

 

Presentations

Scarf Award Invited Talk (Moz)

Parker Lecture 2008 (Dibyendu Nandi)

17 Invited talks at conferences

10 Seminars

 

Publications

1 Paper in Nature

1 Paper in Scientific American, Spanish edition

1 PhD thesis

1 Conference proceedings edited

1 Invited book chapter

4 Invited reviews in conference proceedings

13 papers in Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) and ApJ Letters

5 Papers in Space Science Reviews

2 Papers in Journal of Geophysical Research

1 Paper in Solar Physics

3 Papers in American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings

 

Media Exposure

Nature paper (Nandy, Moz and Martens 2011) on the recent solar minimum has led to press releases by NASA, MSU, and CfA, and a NASA press teleconference.

 

Press Materials

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/solar-cycle23.html

Montana State University: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=9526

Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2011/pr201107.html

 

Spawning of Cross-Team Collaborations

Andrés Moz-Jaramillo and Niel Sheeley have began a collaboration in which they are using the SOHO-MDI continuum images to calibrate Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) polar faculae estimates in terms of automated digital measurements of faculae brightness with corresponding measurements of magnetic flux.  This substantiates the use of the MWO numbers of polar faculae and provides a reliable data set for constraining solar dynamo theories.