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Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

Member Since 1983

Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

Professor Emeritus, Technical University of Braunschweig

Member, Bowie Medal Committee

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Technical University of Braunschweig

Full Professor/Chair Geophysics

1991 - Present

Technical University of Braunschweig

Professor Emeritus

1991 - Present

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University of Münster

Doctorate

1985

Karl-Heinz's AGU Research

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Extending the Wave Telescope Technique to Larger Numbers of Spacecraft Obtaining Robust Spatial Power Spectra

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

The Shock‐Substorm of 24 September 1998: A Different Type of Substorm Trigger Onset

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Dynamo Models With a Mercury‐Like Magnetic Offset Dipole

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS

A solar rotation signature in cosmic dust data taken by the Wind spacecraft

SOLAR AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS: GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS I POSTER

spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 10 december 2024

Space Waste: An update on the natural vs human-made mass influx to the atmosphere

ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE POSTER PRESENTATIONS: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES—CLIMATE AND EXTREMES

atmospheric sciences | 09 december 2024

Hall Dynamics and Magnetic Reconnection at a Lunar Crustal Field

MOON-PLASMA INTERACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM I POSTER

spa-magnetospheric physics | 14 december 2023

The Cluster Virtual Observatory for ULF Waves

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS

12 september 2023

Does Magnetic Reconnection Occur in the Near Lunar Surface Environment?

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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2026 - 2027

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Bowie Medal Committee

2019 - 2021

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Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award Committee

2006 - 2009

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JGR Space Physics Section

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Union Fellow

Received December 2018

Citation

For multiple fundamental transformational contributions to space and planetary physics.

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