Space Plasma Physics Group (SPPG) | University of Bergen
Space Research and Space Weather
Before the summer, Norah Kaggwa Kwagala joined the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as a member of the Expert Team on Space Weather. At the moment, the team brings together experts from all over the world. The Expert team on Space Weather (ET-SWx) has been established to lead the delivery of the space weather related research Read More …
Cecilia Norgren receives FRIPRO funding from Norges forskningsråd for her proposal ‘Xplode – Why, how, and where do magnetic fields discharge?’. Through a combined use of kinetic particle-in-cell simulations and in situ spacecraft observations by the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission, the project will aim to answer the questions of when and where magnetic reconnection is Read More …
Lindis Bjoland recently started as a researcher at the Space Plasma Physics group. During the next year, she will do a feasibility study to assess how the new EISCAT_3D radar can contribute to and enhance the European Space Agency’s space weather data products and improve their services in the Arctic region. Her research has been Read More …
The Plasma Observatory is a multi-spacecraft mission proposal to study the coupling of fluid and ion scales within astrophysical plasmas in near-Earth space, advancing the knowledge of particle energisation and energy transfer. It was recently selected for further study for ESA’s M7 mission opportunity. Cecilia Norgren from SPPG is a member of the Plasma Observatory Read More …
On September 28, Håkon Kolstø successfully defended his thesis titled ‘Magnetic reconnection and heavy ions‘! The opponents were Professor Masahiro Hoshino from the University of Tokyo and Gabriella Stenberg Wieser from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, and the head of the committée was David Sarria from the Birkeland Center for Space Science at the Read More …
AGU’s Fall Meeting is the largest international Earth and space science meeting in the world. Here SPPG presented three posters (Håkon, Susanne and Norah), one eLightning poster, and gave 4 presentations, three of which were invited.
In September, Susanne Flø Spinnangr gave an introductory lecture about space science in collaboration with Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester in Grieghallen in Bergen. https://harmonien.no/program/2019/09/neste-steg-1-verdensrommet/ Original picture and information at https://www.grieghallen.no/arrangementer/neste-steg-1-verdensrommet-bergen-filharmoniske-orkester/
Håkon Kolstø was awarded the prestigious NASA International Internship. In January Håkon will spend 3 month at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.