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Thayer

School of

Engineering

Dartmouth

College

William Lotko

Professor, Engineering Sciences

 

Thayer School of Engineering

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH 03755 USA

1-603-646-3485 (office)

Office: 217b Cummings

wlotko@dartmouth.edu

www.dartmouth.edu/~wlotko


 

My research within the broader field of geospace science focuses on system-level studies of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction, its plasma electrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and collisionless transport processes, with applications to space weather prediction. With my students and research collaborators, I am currently investigating and developing simulation models for ionospheric outflows into the magnetosphere; electron precipitation into the high-latitude ionosphere and thermosphere; plasma kinetics that enable superfluent ion outflows and electron precipitation; and the effects of all of these processes on global geospace dynamics.  I serve as Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s Heliophysics Theory Project sponsored by NASA, and I am a co-investigator with the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, a multi-institutional Science and Technology Center sponsored by NSF.  I am also team leader, with six other principal investigators, for one of NASA’s Living With a Star, Targeted Research and Technology projects focusing on geospace dynamics during storms.  I  teach courses at Dartmouth in engineering design, applied mathematics, electromagnetic fields and waves, magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics, and on issues in technology and society.  In past years I have served the School of Engineering as Director of its MS/PhD Program, Senior Associate Dean, and Interim Dean.

 


 

Research Projects

Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction

Stormtime Plasma Redistribution

Integrated Space Weather Modeling

National Science Foundation

 


 

Educational Projects

Introduction to Engineering

Methods in Applied Mathematics

Magnetohydrodynamics

Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics

Oliver Brambles, Jon Watts, Binzheng Zhang

 


 

Professional Activities

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Chair, NASA Geospace Management and Operations Working Group, Heliophysics Division

Team Leader, NASA LWS TR&T Project on “Effects of Ionospheric-Magnetospheric Plasma Redistribution on Storms”

Co-Investigator on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

Co-Chair, NSF Geospace Environment Modeling Focus Group on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Electrodynamics and Transport

Lead Convener, IAGA Div III03, Magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions and auroral processes

 


 

Recent Presentations

Ionospheric Outflow and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

7-8 November 2004 superstorm: Global simulations with causally regulated outflow

Engineering in Liberal Education and Liberal Education in Engineering

 


 

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