Jodie McLennan, a graduate student studying pulsating aurora, was awarded a NASA FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) Fellowship covering her graduate work for the next three years. 

She will explore how precipitation from space in the form of pulsating aurora is created by particle injections and how that precipitation affects Earth's atmosphere. Her fellowship is supervised by PI Prof. Allison Jaynes. 

Jodie began working as a graduate student for Prof. Jaynes in the Fall of 2022. She received a B.S. in Physics and Math from Wheaton College and a M.S. in Astrophysics from the University of St. Andrews.