News
Outreach: Natalia Solorzano, Research Scientist; Jeremy Thomas, Research Scientist
January 2024
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Blue Origin Rocket Instrument Payload Contribution NWRA Research Scientists Jeremy Thomas and Natalia Solorzano led a team of undergraduate students from DigiPen Institute of Technology to design, build, and test a light weight and low-cost energetic particle sensor. The sensor was flown in the capsule of Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket in West Texas to 110km altitude on December 19, 2023. This is the second flight for the sensor. It previously flew in September 2022, but the payload didn't reach space altitudes due to an anomaly with Blue Origin's rocket. The team is analyzing the data and preparing publications.
https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/digipen-computer-engineeringproject-inches-closer-space |
NWRA Welcomes Hamid Pahlavan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boulder Office
January 2024
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Hamid has been in the Boulder office as a long-term visitor from Rice University and has now joined NWRA as an employee as of January 16! He received a PhD in 2022 in Atmospheric Science from UW on “QBO Dynamics and Gravity Wave Characteristics as seen in ERA5 Reanalysis”. Hamid will be working on an NSF-funded project with Joan Alexander, focusing on Machine-Learning-based strategies for parameterization of gravity wave drag for climate models. It is a four-institute collaborative project with NWRA, Stanford, NYU, and Rice U. https://cssi-gws.github.io/index.html Please welcome Hamid! |