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Member Since 2014
Sarah K. Vines
Lead Scientist, Southwest Research Institute
Member, Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
Professional Experience
Southwest Research Institute
Lead Scientist
2024 - Present
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Senior Professional Staff I
2019 - 2024
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2017 - 2019
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Education
University of Texas at San Antonio
Doctorate
2016
Florida Institute of Technology
Bachelors
2012
Publications
Ion Phase Space Density Profiles Within the Magnetosphere of Saturn: Investigating the Source of Sup...

Phase space density (PSD) profiles at fixed values of the first two adiabatic invariants (μ ${\upmu }$; magnetic moment and k $k$; longitudina...

February 27, 2025
AGU Abstracts
Cold ion heating and acceleration in the magnetopause boundary layers during the 2019 MMS string-of-pearls campaign
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Sarah K. Vines, Stephen A. Fuselier, Karlheinz J. ...
For cold and heavy magnetospheric ion populations that reach the dayside magnetopause, how those populations evolve across magnetopause separatrices i...
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The Asymmetry Towards Stronger Birkeland Currents in the Northern Hemisphere
EXPLORING INTERHEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRIES IN THE ATMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE-MAGNETOSPHERE SYSTEM: CHARACTERISTICS, MECHANISMS, AND IMPACTS II ORAL
spa-aeronomy | 13 december 2024
John Coxon, Sarah K. Vines, Stephen E. Milan, Bria...
Iridium satellites in low-Earth orbit have transformed our knowledge of geospace by enabling the AMPERE dataset. We employ AMPERE data from October 20...
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Interhemispheric asymmetries in polar cap area: A statistical view from AMPERE
EXPLORING INTERHEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRIES IN THE ATMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE-MAGNETOSPHERE SYSTEM: CHARACTERISTICS, MECHANISMS, AND IMPACTS II ORAL
spa-aeronomy | 13 december 2024
Sarah K. Vines, Wenli Mo, Brian J. Anderson, Rober...
A key component of solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling manifests in the high-latitude field-aligned currents and the spatial extent of open m...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Canvassing Committee
2023 - 2024
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Advocacy Committee
2022 - 2023
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
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