James McAteer

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R. T. James McAteer
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McAteer, teaching at NMSU
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast
Known forAcademic executive leadership
OfficeDeputy Provost of New Mexico State University
AwardsNational Science Foundation Career, National Academy of Sciences.
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
Institutions New Mexico State University
Sunspot Solar Observatory
Goddard Space Flight Center
Trinity College Dublin
Thesis Low Frequency Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere  (2003)

R.T. James McAteer is an American solar physicist, Deputy Provost, and professor of astronomy, at New Mexico State University. He leads areas of Academic Affairs, policy management, and faculty relations, strategic planning and resource management in the Office of the Provost.

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His academic research lies in studies of the coronal heating problem and space weather. McAteer is the author of two book "The Planets", and "Fields, Flows, and Flares", and has published over 130 research articles [1] , and serves as a member of the board for AURA.

Academy leadership

Dr McAteer was appointed as the first Senior Associate Provost at NMSU in August 2022, [2] a position retitled Deputy Provost in August 2024. Dr McAteer was Department chair of Astronomy from 2021 to 2022, including Director of both Apache Point Observatory and Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In 2020 he was appointed to the New Mexico State Commission for Space History. [3] by the governor of New Mexico. From 2016 to 2021 he was the Director of Sunspot Solar Observatory.

Education

McAteer graduated from Queen's University Belfast with a master's in physics with astrophysics in 2000. He completed his Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast with this thesis Low Frequency Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere [4] in 2004. [5]

Career

McAteer is a professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University. [6] After completing his thesis, he moved to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 2004 to 2008, as a NASA STEREO scientist. He won a European Union Marie Curie Fellowship in 2008, which he took at Trinity College Dublin. He started at New Mexico State University in 2010, and became the director of the newly formed Sunspot Solar Observatory in 2016.

He is noted for wide-ranging contributions to solar physics and space plasma physics, including chromospheric heating, [7] space weather [8] and turbulence. [9] His research includes cross disciplinary papers in image processing, computer vision and big data. [10] His research includes the subjects of spectropolarimetry, seismology, and heliophysics. He was awarded a NSF Career award in 2013 for combining his research and teaching efforts around studies of the Sun.

National Recognition

He is a Member of the Board for AURA.

He was a member of the 2020 National Academy of Science Decadel Survey in Astrophysics. [11]

In 2019 he published "The Planets".[ citation needed ], an introduction to the solar system for University general education classes.

In 2025 he published "Fields, Flows, and Flares", a graduate level textbook in Astrophysics.


He was awarded the NMSU "Truly Innovative Teaching" in Teaching in 2022, the NMUS Global Initiative in Service in 2016, and the Career Research award in Research in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ "McAteer publications".
  2. ↑ "NMSU ProVost website".
  3. ↑ "State Commissilon".
  4. ↑ McAteer, R.T. James (2004). Low Frequency Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere (Thesis).
  5. ↑ McAteer, Robert Thomas James (2004). "NASA ADS thesis ref". p. 1031. Bibcode:2004PhDT.........6M . Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  6. ↑ "NMSU bio page". Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  7. ↑ McAteer, R. T. James; Gallagher, Peter T.; Williams, David R.; Mathioudakis, Mihalis; Phillips, Kenneth J. H.; Keenan, Francis P. (2002). "Long-Period Chromospheric Oscillations in Network Bright Points". Astrophysical Journal. 567 (L565): L165 –L168. Bibcode:2002ApJ...567L.165M. doi: 10.1086/340110 . S2CID   122964897.
  8. ↑ McAteer, R. T. James; Bloomfield, D. Shaun (2013). "The Bursty Nature of Solar Flare X-Ray Emission. Ii. The Neupert Effect". Astrophysical Journal. 776 (2): 66. Bibcode:2013ApJ...776...66M. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/776/2/66 . S2CID   119762286.
  9. ↑ McAteer, R. T. James (2015). "Frozen-in Fractals All Around: Inferring the Large-Scale Effects of Small-Scale Magnetic Structure". Solar Physics. 290 (7): 7. arXiv: 1506.07914 . Bibcode:2015SoPh..290.1897M. doi:10.1007/s11207-015-0733-9. S2CID   119243566.
  10. ↑ Al-Ghraibah, A.; Boucheron, L. E.; McAteer, R. T. J. (2015). "An automated classification approach to ranking photospheric proxies of magnetic energy build-up". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 579: 464. arXiv: 1506.08717 . Bibcode:2015A&A...579A..64A. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525978 .
  11. ↑ "NAS Decadel Survey".
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