College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Steven R. Spangler

Professor
Education:
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1975
Office:
705 VAN
Office Phone:
(319) 335-1948
Lab:
666A VAN
Research Interests:
Radio astronomy; plasma astrophysics; space plasma physics.
Research:
- Solar corona, solar wind, interstellar medium
- Students use the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope
- Students also encouraged to carry out instrumentation-development projects with the 4.5 meter instructional radio telescope on roof of Van Allen Hall
- Students develop skills in numerical methods, writing code in Python and other languages