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his Ph.D. in physics from Manchester University. He served as chair on the NRC Committee on SolarTerrestrial Research and was a member of the Committee on Earth Studies and the Panel for Electronics
and Electrical Engineering.
RODERICK A. HEELIS is the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor of Physics and director of the William
B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas, Dallas. His research specialization covers
planetary atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres, and the physical phenomena coupling these
regions. Dr. Heelis has published more than 130 papers in the refereed literature and presented numerous
invited papers at national and international meetings. He serves as principal investigator for grant and
contract research sponsored by DOD and NSF. Dr. Heelis graduated from the University of Sheffield with
a Ph.D. in applied and computational mathematics. In addition to his research activities, he also serves on
a number of advisory committees and working groups, including being a member of the NASA Sun-Earth
Connections Advisory subcommittee. Dr. Heelis was a co-chair on the NRC Committee on Heliophysics
Performance Assessment and served as a member of the Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar
and Space Physics in NASA’s Space Exploration Initiative.
THOMAS J. IMMEL, see committee entry above.
JANET U. KOZYRA is the George R. Carignan Collegiate Research Professor at the Space Physics Research
Laboratory at the University of Michigan. She has also served as a summer faculty member at the Air
Force Geophysics Laboratory at the Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. Dr. Kozyra is active in
space plasma physics and aeronomy, concentrating on processes that couple the atmosphere and ionosphere with near-Earth space. Her research emphasis has been on the development of theoretical models
of geophysical regions and the comparison of model results with satellite observations. Dr. Kozyra was
the first demonstrator of the importance of high-energy oxygen ions in producing stable auroral red arcs
through collisions with thermal electrons at high altitudes. She is currently a co-investigator on the TIDE
instrument onboard the POLAR spacecraft and has also been selected as an interdisciplinary scientist on
the proposed TIMED mission. Dr. Kozyra is an elected fellow of the AGU and is a former associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research and Geophysical Research Letters. She received her Ph.D. in
space physics and aeronomy from the University of Michigan. She served as a member of the NRC AFOSR
Atmospheric Sciences Review Panel.
WILLIAM LOTKO is a professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
He has also held the positions of interim dean and senior associate dean of the Thayer School. Before
moving to Dartmouth, he was a research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Dr.
Lotko is currently investigating and developing simulation models for ionospheric outflows into the magnetosphere, electron precipitation into the high-latitude ionosphere and thermosphere, plasma kinetics
that enable superfluent ion outflows and electron precipitation, and the effects of all of these processes on
global geospace dynamics. He is the principal investigator for Dartmouth’s Heliophysics Theory Project
sponsored by NASA, co-investigator for the NSF-sponsored Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling,
and team leader for one of NASA’s Living With a Star projects that focuses on geospace dynamics during storms. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and is an
elected fellow of the AGU. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from UCLA. Dr. Lotko served on the NRC Panel
on Theory, Computation, and Data Exploration.
Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society
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SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS: A SCIENCE FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
his Ph.D. in physics from Manchester University. He served as chair on the NRC Committee on SolarTerrestrial Research and was a member of the Committee on Earth Studies and the Panel for Electronics
and Electrical Engineering.
RODERICK A. HEELIS is the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor of Physics and director of the William
B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas, Dallas. His research specialization covers
planetary atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres, and the physical phenomena coupling these
regions. Dr. Heelis has published more than 130 papers in the refereed literature and presented numerous
invited papers at national and international meetings. He serves as principal investigator for grant and
contract research sponsored by DOD and NSF. Dr. Heelis graduated from the University of Sheffield with
a Ph.D. in applied and computational mathematics. In addition to his research activities, he also serves on
a number of advisory committees and working groups, including being a member of the NASA Sun-Earth
Connections Advisory subcommittee. Dr. Heelis was a co-chair on the NRC Committee on Heliophysics
Performance Assessment and served as a member of the Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar
and Space Physics in NASA’s Space Exploration Initiative.
THOMAS J. IMMEL, see committee entry above.
JANET U. KOZYRA is the George R. Carignan Collegiate Research Professor at the Space Physics Research
Laboratory at the University of Michigan. She has also served as a summer faculty member at the Air
Force Geophysics Laboratory at the Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. Dr. Kozyra is active in
space plasma physics and aeronomy, concentrating on processes that couple the atmosphere and ionosphere with near-Earth space. Her research emphasis has been on the development of theoretical models
of geophysical regions and the comparison of model results with satellite observations. Dr. Kozyra was
the first demonstrator of the importance of high-energy oxygen ions in producing stable auroral red arcs
through collisions with thermal electrons at high altitudes. She is currently a co-investigator on the TIDE
instrument onboard the POLAR spacecraft and has also been selected as an interdisciplinary scientist on
the proposed TIMED mission. Dr. Kozyra is an elected fellow of the AGU and is a former associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research and Geophysical Research Letters. She received her Ph.D. in
space physics and aeronomy from the University of Michigan. She served as a member of the NRC AFOSR
Atmospheric Sciences Review Panel.
WILLIAM LOTKO is a professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
He has also held the positions of interim dean and senior associate dean of the Thayer School. Before
moving to Dartmouth, he was a research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Dr.
Lotko is currently investigating and developing simulation models for ionospheric outflows into the magnetosphere, electron precipitation into the high-latitude ionosphere and thermosphere, plasma kinetics
that enable superfluent ion outflows and electron precipitation, and the effects of all of these processes on
global geospace dynamics. He is the principal investigator for Dartmouth’s Heliophysics Theory Project
sponsored by NASA, co-investigator for the NSF-sponsored Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling,
and team leader for one of NASA’s Living With a Star projects that focuses on geospace dynamics during storms. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and is an
elected fellow of the AGU. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from UCLA. Dr. Lotko served on the NRC Panel
on Theory, Computation, and Data Exploration.