Steven Spangler, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Biography
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
Research areas
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Plasma Physics
  • Space Physics
Steven R. Spangler
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1975
Office
Address

705 Van Allen Hall (VAN)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States


Lab
Address

666A Van Allen Hall (VAN)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States