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Member Since 2011
Colin M. Komar
Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Professional Experience
Catholic University of America
Research Associate
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Research Associate
Education
Doctorate
2015
Honors & Awards
Basu United States Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Received 2016
Colin received his B.S. in physics from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2008 and an M.S. in physics from West Virginia University in 2010. He completed his Ph.D. in physics under the supervision of Paul Cassak at West Virginia University in Morgantow...
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Publications
New Developments in the Comprehensive Inner Magnetosphere‐Ionosphere Model
A Comprehensive Inner Magnetosphere‐Ionosphere (CIMI) model was developed to study the dynamic variations of the radiation belts, ring curren...
April 01, 2021
Numerical Simulations of the Geospace Response to the Arriva...
February 19, 2021
A Case Study on the Origin of Near‐Earth Plasma
October 31, 2020
Why Are There so Few Reports of High‐Energy Electron Drift R...
August 25, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Global Distribution of ULF Wave Power at Earth and Relationship with Charged Particle Dynamics: Implications for Other Planetary Magnetospheres
ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLES AT THE EARTH, THE GAS GIANTS, AND BEYOND I ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 15 december 2021
Michael Hartinger, Martin O. Archer, Tom Elsden, K...
Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves in the Earth's magnetosphere affect the dynamics of radiation belt particles via wave-particle interactions and coupli...
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Interhemispheric Differences in Electron Precipitation Caused by Asymmetries in the Earth’s Magnetic Field
ENERGETIC-PARTICLE PRECIPITATION INTO EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE: MULTIPOINT OBSERVATIONS, SIMULATION, AND THEORY I ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 14 december 2021
Mei-Ching H. Fok, Alex Grocer, Cristian Ferradas, ...
In most of the global magnetosphere-ionosphere models, the geomagnetic field is assumed to be a pure dipole, which is symmetric in longitudinal and no...
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Cross-Scale Properties of Dayside Magnetic Reconnection
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY IV POSTERS
spa-magnetospheric physics | 10 december 2020
Paul Cassak, Colin M. Komar, Alex Glocer
Understanding whether and/or how the microphysics of dayside magnetic reconnection impacts the global-scale is important to develop quantitative predi...
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