Atmospheric and Space Electricity Focus Group
Past Outstanding Student Paper Winners
Fall Meeting 2009
Three Outstanding Student Paper Awards were given:
- Amitabh Nag, University of Florida, USA
- Compact intracloud lightning discharges: Conceptual mechanism, modeling, and electrical parameters
- Feng Han, Duke University, USA
- Lightning-induced D region disturbances detected by broadband VLF sferics
- Sander Nijdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Laboratory experiments simulating sprites on Earth, Venus, and Jupiter
Three student papers were chosen for honorable mention:
- Ziad Saleh, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
- Characterization of X-ray emission from natural and rocket-and-wire triggered lightning
- Allison Silveira, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Charge structure and lightning patterns in simulated mesoscale convective systems
- Takeshi Kammae, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
- Observation of the blue spectra from sprites at 10,000 fps
Fall Meeting 2008
Three Outstanding Student Paper Awards were given:
- Bryna Hazelton, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- The spectral dependence of TGFs on source distance
- Ziad Saleh, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
- Properties of the x-ray emission from rocket-triggered and natural lightning as measured by the Thunderstorm Energetic Radiation Array
- Robert Marshall, Stanford University, USA
- Elves and associated ionospheric density perturbations due to horizontal in-cloud lightning EMP
Three student papers were chosen for honorable mention:
- Joseph Howard, University of Florida, USA
- High resolution mapping of the final stepped leader phase from dE/dt TOA measurements
- Jeremy Riousset, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Numerical modeling of the formation of the screening charge near the thundercloud boundaries and its impact on the initiation and early stages of development of blue and gigantic jets
- Sonja Behnke, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA
- Lightning mapping observations of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Fall Meeting, 2007
Three Outstanding Student Paper Awards were given:
- Matt Bailey, Utah State University, USA
- Sprite Halos and Associated Lightning Characteristics over South America
- Phillip Bitzer, University of Alabama Huntsville, USA
- Hydrometeor Environments Near Lightning Centroids and the Impact on Initial Breakdown
- Brian Grefenstette, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- A Reanalysis of the Time Evolution and Spectroscopy of the BATSE TGFs
Three student papers were chosen for honorable mention:
- Thomas Gjesteland, University of Bergen, Norway
- Monte Carlo simulation of the temporal behavior of Terrestrial Gamma ray Flashes
- Jingbo Li, Duke University, USA
- Charge Transfer Characteristics and Initiation Mechanisms of Long Delayed Sprites
- Amitabh Nag, University of Florida, USA
- Measurements of Wideband Electric Fields and Their Derivatives in Conjunction With HF and VHF Radiation Produced by Lightning Discharges
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