NorthWest Research Associates

Two papers from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) science team on stratospheric impacts of the Hunga eruption were recently recognized by the American Geophysical Union as among the top 10% most-viewed 2023 papers in their respective journals:

Manney et al, “Siege in the Southern Stratosphere: Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Water Vapor Excluded From the 2022 Antarctic Polar Vortex” Geophysics Research Letters, 2023.

Santee et al, “Strong Evidence of Heterogeneous Processing on Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol in the Extrapolar Southern Hemisphere Following the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption”, JGR Atmospheres 2023.

Congratulations Gloria!

Karin Dissauer received the 2025 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award from the Solar-Terrestrial Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (GSU) for outstanding research in solar and extra-solar space weather research.

“Karin Dissauer has become as one of the most prominent Early Career Scientists of her generation in the field of solar and extra-solar space weather research. She received her PhD in 2018 from the University of Graz, Austria and after being as postdoctoral researcher for a few years at Graz and NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA), Boulder, she was promoted as a full research scientist at the NWRA.

In her research, Dissauer has focused on analyzing the relationships between coronal dimmings and solar/stellar eruptions (coronal mass ejections and flares). Dissauer’s recent work has in particular highlighted the importance of small-scale magnetic activity in the corona and chromosphere before flaring takes place and differences between flaring and non-flaring active regions. She has also developed new methods for detecting coronal dimmings by using interdisciplinary statistical approaches from other fields. Dissauer has nearly 40 papers in the refereed journals in the field and she has given invited talks. She is very active in the scientific community, including being part of NASA/ESA mission teams and in the public outreach. Despite being in the early career phase, Dissauer is the Principal Investigator of several significant research projects and she co-leads an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team.”

https://www.egu.eu/awards-meda...

Well Deserved, Karin!!