Education:

University of Colorado at Boulder: B.A. 2004, Magna Cum Laude

Experience:

2004 - present: Graduate Student in Physics, Dartmouth College.

2002-2004:  Engineer / Undergraduate Research Assistant, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado at Boulder.

   

2000-2002:  Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Colorado High Energy Physics.

Honors and Awards:

- Selamawit Tsehaye Teaching Award, Dartmouth College, 2009.

- Dartmouth / NASA Space Grant Award, 2009.

- Dartmouth / NASA Space Grant Fellowship, 2005-2007.

- Presidential Scholar Award, Dartmouth College, 2004.

- Eagle Scout, 2000.

Memberships:

- Sigma Pi Sigma

1. -National Society of Collegiate Scholars
   

2. -Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society
   

3. -American Geophysical Union
   

4. -American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
   

Contact Information:

Office: 315A Wilder Lab

Telephone: (603) 646-1394

Email: nicholas.bunch AT dartmouth.edu

Professional Interests:

Experimental space plasma physics, remote sensing of ionospheric plasma, instrumentation, plasma wave instabilities.

Selected Recent Publications:

Bunch N. L., J. LaBelle, A. T. Weatherwax, J. M. Hughes, D. Lummerzheim (2009), Experimental tests of the generation mechanism of auroral medium frequency burst radio emissions, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A09302, doi:10.1029/2008JA013993.

Bunch N. L., J. LaBelle (2009), Fully resolved observations of auroral medium frequency burst radio emissions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15104, doi:10.1029/2009GL038513.

Bunch N. L., J. LaBelle, A. T. Weatherwax, J. M. Hughes (2008), Auroral medium frequency burst radio emission associated with the 23 March 2007 THEMIS study substorm, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A00C08, doi:10.1029/2008JA013503.

M. Horanyi, V. Hoxie, D. James, A. Poppe, C. Bryant, B. Grogan, B. Lamprecht, J. Mack, F. Bagenal, S. Batiste, N. Bunch, et al. (2008), The Student Dust Counter on the New Horizons Mission, Space Science Rev., 10.1007/s11214-007-9250-y

Recent Invited Talks:

“Experimental Tests of the Generation Mechanism of Radio Emissions AssociatedWith Auroral Substorms,” Dartmouth College Physics / Engineering Plasma Seminar, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. October 21, 2008.

"Student Dust Counter and New Horizons Mission", Presented at Thayer School of Engineering AIAA, Dartmouth College Chapter, Hanover, NH. May 2, 2006.

Recent Conference Presentations:

Bunch, N. L., J. LaBelle, A. T. Weatherwax, and J. Hughes (2008), The first full-resolution measurements of Auroral Medium Frequency Burst Radio Emissions, Eos Trans. AGU, SM13A-1657

Bunch, N. L., J. LaBelle, A. T. Weatherwax, D. Lummerzheim, and H. Stenbaek-Nielson (2008), Direction of Arrival Studies of Medium Frequency Burst Radio Emissions at Toolik Lake, AK, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., SM43A-02

Bunch, N. L., J. LaBelle, A. T. Weatherwax, and J. Hughes (2007), Direction of Arrival Mea

surements of Auroral Medium Frequency Burst Radio Emissions at Toolik Lake, AK, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., SM23B-1406

Bunch, N. L., J. LaBelle, S. Ye, A. T. Weatherwax, and J. Hughes (2007), First Observations

of Auroral Radio Emissions at Toolik Lake, AK, GEM Conference, Midway, UT. June, 2007.

Bunch, N., S. Ye, and J. LaBelle (2007), Direction Finding of Auroral Radio Emissions, Arctic Studies Symposium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. May, 2007.

Bunch, N., S. Ye, and J. LaBelle (2006), Radio direction finding measurements of auroral MF burst and 3 fce auroral roar, GEM Conference, Snowmass, CO. June, 2006.

Horanyi, M., et. al. (2005), The Student Dust Counter, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED11F-03 INVITED

Mitchell, C., et al. (2003), Student Dust Counter I: Science Objectives, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract  ED41B-1167

Krauss, C., et al. (2003), Student Dust Counter II: Building the Instrument, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED41B-1168

Other Interests:

Tuck Rugby Football Club, financial markets, quantitative finance, computing, traveling.

Links of interest:

LaBelle Group    Dartmouth Space Physics    CU    LASP

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