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Home > People > faculty > Kristina A. Lynch

Kristina A. Lynch Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Education University of New Hampshire: PhD 1992 University of New Hampshire: MS 1990 Washington University in St. Louis: AB 1984

Experience

• 2006-present: Dartmouth College, Associate Professor
• 2002-2006: Dartmouth College, Assistant Professor
• 1999-2002: University of New Hampshire, Research Associate Professor
• 1995-1999: University of New Hampshire, Research Assistant Professor
• 1992-1995: University of New Hampshire, Research Scientist
• 1988-1992: University of New Hampshire, Graduate Student
• 1984-1988: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, USAF Lieutenant/Research Physicist
• 1981-1984: Washington University, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Contact Information

• Office: 303A Wilder
• Lab: 317 Wilder, 646-2972
• Telephone: (603) 646-9311
• E-mail: kristina.lynch@dartmouth.edu

Research Interests (see my research page.)

Auroral space plasma physics, ionospheric and mesospheric sounding rocket experiments, instrumentation, and data analysis; wave-particle interactions in the auroral ionosphere.

Selected Recent Publications

"High time resolution PFISR and optical observations of naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines", R. G. Michell, K. A. Lynch, C. J. Heinselman, and H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen, Ann. Geophys., 27, 1457-1467, 2009

"FAST observations of downward current regions: Effect of magnetospheric conditions on the parallel potential drop", Hwang, K.-J., K. A. Lynch, D. L. Newman, and C. W. Carlson, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A02218 (2009)

"FAST observations of downward current regions: Effect of ionospheric constraints on parallel signatures", K.-J. Hwang, K. A. Lynch, D. L. Newman, C. W. Carlson, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A02219; 2009

"Fast Auroral Snapshot observations of perpendicular DC electric field structures in downward current regions: Implications", Hwang, K.-J., K. A. Lynch, C. W. Carlson, J. W. Bonnell, and W. J. Peria, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A09206,; 2006

"Fast Auroral Snapshot observations of perpendicular DC electric field structures in downward auroral current regions: Morphology", Hwang, K.-J., K. A. Lynch, C. W. Carlson, J. W. Bonnell, and W. J. Peria, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A09205; 2006

"PFISR nightside observations of naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines, and their relation to boundary auroral features", Lynch, R. G. Michell, K. A. Lynch, C. J. Heinselman, and H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen Ann. Geophys., 26, 3623-3639, 2008.

"Auroral ion outflow: low altitude energization", K. A. Lynch1, J. L. Semeter, M. Zettergren, P. Kintner, R. Arnoldy, E. Klatt, J. LaBelle, R. G. Michell, E. A. MacDonald, and M. Samara, Ann. Geophys., 25, 1967-1977, 2007

"Experimental studies of low density and temperature ion and electron sheaths", K. M. Frederick-Frost and K. A. Lynch, Phys. Plasmas 14, 123503 (2007);

"Low energy stable plasma calibration facility", K. M. Frederick-Frost and K. A. Lynch, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 075113 (2007);