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About AGU
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AGU Membership Value

Empower your future today!

Ethics, Diversity & Inclusive Science

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Sarah K. Vines

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Member Since 2014

Sarah K. Vines

Lead Scientist, Southwest Research Institute

Member, Space Physics and Aeronomy Fellows Committee

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Southwest Research Institute

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2024 - Present

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Senior Professional Staff I

2019 - 2024

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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2017 - 2019

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University of Texas at San Antonio

Doctorate

2016

Florida Institute of Technology

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2012

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AMPERE Observations of the Asymmetry Toward Stronger Birkeland Currents in the Northern Hemisphere

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

Interhemispheric Asymmetries in the Large‐Scale Traveling Atmospheric and Ionospheric Disturbances During the 5–6 August 2011 Geomagnetic Storm

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

Solar Wind‐Magnetosphere‐Ionosphere Coupling During the October 2024 Storms

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

Joule Heating in the Northern Hemisphere During Geomagnetic Storms Driven by High‐Speed Streams and Coronal Mass Ejections

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

State of the Early Career Profession in Space Physics and Aeronomy: Climatological Survey Results

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

Multiple Reconnection X‐Lines at the Earth's Magnetopause in the Presence of Magnetosheath Flow

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

High‐Latitude Electrodynamics and Thermospheric Density Variations During the 2024 Gannon Storm

04 february 2026

MMS Observations of a Compressed, Strongly Driven Magnetopause During the 2024 Mother's Day Storm

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

17 december 2025

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2026 - 2028

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