Ivar W. Christopher
Research Specialist
Biography
About
Ivar has extensive experience in analyzing large, complex data sets, primarily in the space plasma wave research field, as well as in implementing operations (planning and commanding) for the plasma wave instrument on the Cluster spacecraft and will be doing similar work for the TRACERS mission. He also is experienced in processing and archiving of science data for multiple spacecraft missions.
Expertise in processing, analysis and visualization of data using IDL and Autoplot primarily, but also using other software tools as needed.
Roles
- Data analysis
- Data visualization
- Scientific programming
Projects
- Voyager
- Cluster (data analysis and instrument operations)
- RBSP
- TRICE II
- TRACERS
Other skills
- Scripting
- Fortran
- Basic C
- Python