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Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Kristine Sigsbee was awarded $509,549 from the 2019 Heliophysics Guest Investigator (H-GI) “Open” Program for her proposal titled “Ion Properties Associated with Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Waves”
Congratulations Graduate Students Kenneth Heitritter, Dustin Swarm and Jacob McLaughlin who were just each awarded a NASA Fellowship from the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC)
Congratulations to ERD Machinist Christopher Pestalozzi for being one of two recipients for the inaugural Richard E. Gibson Merit Staff Award in Service!
Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Zach Girazian who was awarded a $200,000 NASA grant to study “Solar Wind Induced Magnetic Fields in the Ionospheres of Venus and Mars”