Rocketry

Overview

Starting in August 2022, I got involved with Dr. Kurth's research group, using data from the Juno spacecraft around Jupiter to study radio emmissions. For around half a year I was involved in a handful of different small projects, including identifying aurora crossings and various data visualization projects.

Around the start of the winter semester, I moved to be more directly under Dr. Hospodarsky. There I started cataloging various 'whistler' emissions produced by lightning, that propagate through the plasma environment between Io and Jupiter. This cataloging was done completely manually, until Jeremy Faden and myself developed a tool for Autoplot that can catalog whistlers much easier. As of February 2024, ~120 whistlers have been recorded in both magnetic and electric field measurements. A github repository of my cataloging and other development can be found here. Currently, some preliminary results have been shared in posters and abstracts for AGU and ESA conferences. Eventually, this research will result in a couple publications, as well as an undergraduate thesis.