James McAteer
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R. T. James McAteer | |
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 McAteer, teaching at NMSU | |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast Queen's University Belfast |
| Awards | NSF Career |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | New Mexico State University Sunspot Solar Observatory Goddard Space Flight Center Trinity College Dublin |
| Thesis | Low Frequency Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere (2003) |
R.T. James McAteer is an American solar physicist. He is a professor at New Mexico State University where he studies the coronal heating problem and space weather. McAteer is the director of Sunspot Solar Observatory, is the author of the book "The Planets", and has published over 100 research articles.[1]
Education[]
Dr McAteer graduated from Queen's University Belfast with a Masters in Physics with Astrophysics in 2000. He completed his Ph. D. from Queen's University Belfast with this thesis Low Frequency Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere.[2] in 2004.[3]
Career[]
McAteer is a professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University.[4] After completing his thesis, he moved to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 2004 to 2008, as a NASA STEREO scientist. He won a European Union Marie Curie Fellowship in 2008, which he took at Trinity College Dublin. He started at New Mexico State University in 2010, and became the director of the newly formed Sunspot Solar Observatory in 2016. In 2020 he was appointed to the New Mexico State Commission for Space History[5]
He is noted for wide-ranging contributions to solar physics and space plasma physics, including chromospheric heating,[6] space weather[7] and turbulence.[8] His research includes cross disciplinary papers in image processing, computer vision and big data.[9] His research includes the subject of spectropolarimetry. He was awarded a NSF Career award in 2013. He was a member of the 2020 National Academy of Science Decadel Survey in Astrophysics.[10]
In 2019 he published "The Planets".[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ "McAteer publications".
- ^ McAteer, R.T. James (2004). Low Frequency Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere (Thesis).
- ^ "NASA ADS thesis ref". Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "NMSU bio page".
- ^ "State Commissilon".
- ^ "Long-Period Chromospheric Oscillations in Network Bright Points". Astrophysical Journal. 567 (L565). 2002. doi:10.1086/340110.
- ^ "THE BURSTY NATURE OF SOLAR FLARE X-RAY EMISSION. II. THE NEUPERT EFFECT". Astrophysical Journal. 776: 66. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/776/2/66.
- ^ "Frozen-in Fractals All Around: Inferring the Large-Scale Effects of Small-Scale Magnetic Structure". Solar Physics. 290: 7. 2015. arXiv:1506.07914. doi:10.1007/s11207-015-0733-9.
- ^ "An automated classification approach to ranking photospheric proxies of magnetic energy build-up". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 579: 464. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201525978.
- ^ "NAS Decadel Survey".
External links[]
- * James McAteer publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1978 births
- Living people
- New Mexico State University faculty
- American astrophysicists
- Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
- American physicists
- 20th-century American physicists
- 21st-century American physicists
- NASA astrophysicists