Mary Hudson (scientist)

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Mary K. Hudson
Born (1949-01-06) January 6, 1949 (age 76) [1]
Santa Monica, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Scientific career
Thesis Equatorial spread F : Low frequency modes in a collisional plasma  (1974)
Doctoral advisor Charles F. Kennel
Doctoral students Elena Belova

Mary Hudson (born January 6, 1949} is the Eleanor and Kelvin Smith Distinguished Professor of Physics at Dartmouth College. [2] She is known for her research on the weather patterns that occur due to solar eruptions. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1984.

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Education and career

While in college, Hudson worked for the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation as a mathematician and earned her B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1969. [1] She then worked for the Aerospace Corporation while working on her M.S. degree which she earned from UCLA in 1971. [1] She earned her Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Following her Ph.D., Hudson joined the University of California, Berkeley where she remained until 1985 when she moved to Dartmouth College. In 1990 she was promoted to professor. [2] From 2010 until 2016, she retained an affiliate position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the High Altitude Observatory. [3]

Research

Hudson's interest in space developed as a child raised during the space race who had her own childhood telescope. [4] Starting with her Ph.D. research, Hudson worked on the spread F problem, [5] [6] a phenomenon known to impact the transmission of signals by satellites. [4] During her time at the University of California Berkeley, Hudson worked on the team led by Forrest Mozer that made the first electric field measurements in the ionosphere using the S3-3 satellite; [7] [8] the electrostatic shocks they measured accelerate electrons to make the auroras that can be seen at night in high latitudes. [9] Hudson's research on geomagnetic storms, disruptions in the Earth's magnetosphere, [10] [11] establishes the conditions that cause radiation belts to form during these storms. [12] From 2002 until 2013, Hudson co-lead the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling. [2] Her research on this project centered on magnetosphere physics, especially the trapping of solar energetic particles, [13] [14] which has consequences for technology used on Earth. [15] [16] Hudson has also examined the movement of particles in radiation belts, the Van Allen radiation belts, that surround the Earth. [17] [18] [19]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 1984, Hudson was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union [20] and awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal, [21] thereby becoming the first woman to receive the award. [4] She gave the Van Allen Lecture for the American Geophysical Union in 2006, [22] and received the James A. Van Allen Space Environments Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2012. [2] In 2017, she received the John Adam Fleming Medal from the American Geophysical Union. [23]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Oakes, Elizabeth H. (2007). Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Infobase Publishing. ISBN   978-1-4381-1882-6.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Mary K. Hudson". Department of Physics and Astronomy. 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  3. ↑ "Mary Hudson | High Altitude Observatory". www2.hao.ucar.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  4. 1 2 3 "Mary K. Hudson Receives 2017 John Adam Fleming Medal". Eos. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  5. ↑ Hudson, Mary K. (1978). "Spread F bubbles: Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor mode in two dimensions" . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 83 (A7): 3189–3194. Bibcode:1978JGR....83.3189H. doi:10.1029/JA083iA07p03189. ISSN   2156-2202.
  6. ↑ Hudson, Mary K.; Kennel, Charles F. (1975). "Linear theory of equatorial spread F" . Journal of Geophysical Research. 80 (34): 4581–4590. Bibcode:1975JGR....80.4581H. doi:10.1029/JA080i034p04581. ISSN   2156-2202.
  7. ↑ Mozer, F. S.; Carlson, C. W.; Hudson, M. K.; Torbert, R. B.; Parady, B.; Yatteau, J.; Kelley, M. C. (1977-02-07). "Observations of Paired Electrostatic Shocks in the Polar Magnetosphere" . Physical Review Letters. 38 (6): 292–295. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..38..292M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.292. ISSN   0031-9007.
  8. ↑ Hudson, M. K.; Lysak, R. L.; Mozer, F. S. (1978). "Magnetic field-aligned potential drops due to electrostatic ion cyclotron turbulence" . Geophysical Research Letters. 5 (2): 143–146. Bibcode:1978GeoRL...5..143H. doi:10.1029/GL005i002p00143. ISSN   1944-8007.
  9. ↑ "Forrest S. Mozer Receives 2018 John Adam Fleming Medal". Eos. December 19, 2018. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  10. ↑ Hudson, M. K.; Kotelnikov, A. D.; Li, X.; Roth, I.; Temerin, M.; Wygant, J.; Blake, J. B.; Gussenhoven, M. S. (1995). "Simulation of proton radiation belt formation during the March 24, 1991 SSC". Geophysical Research Letters. 22 (3): 291–294. Bibcode:1995GeoRL..22..291H. doi:10.1029/95GL00009. ISSN   1944-8007.
  11. ↑ Hudson, M. K.; Elkington, S. R.; Lyon, J. G.; Marchenko, V. A.; Roth, I.; Temerin, M.; Gussenhoven, M. S. (1996), "MHD/Particle Simulations of Radiation Belt Formation During a Storm Sudden Commencement", Radiation Belts: Models and Standards, vol. 97, American Geophysical Union (AGU), pp. 57–62, Bibcode:1996GMS....97...57H, doi:10.1029/gm097p0057, ISBN   978-1-118-66426-1 , retrieved 2021-09-06
  12. ↑ Hudson, M. K.; Elkington, S. R.; Lyon, J. G.; Marchenko, V. A.; Roth, I.; Temerin, M.; Blake, J. B.; Gussenhoven, M. S.; Wygant, J. R. (1997). "Simulations of radiation belt formation during storm sudden commencements". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 102 (A7): 14087–14102. Bibcode:1997JGR...10214087H. doi:10.1029/97JA03995. ISSN   2156-2202.
  13. ↑ Hudson, M.K.; Kress, B.T.; Mazur, J.E.; Perry, K.L.; Slocum, P.L. (2004). "3D modeling of shock-induced trapping of solar energetic particles in the Earth's magnetosphere" . Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 66 (15–16): 1389–1397. Bibcode:2004JASTP..66.1389H. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2004.03.024.
  14. ↑ Hudson, M. K.; Denton, R. E.; Lessard, M. R.; Miftakhova, E. G.; Anderson, R. R. (2004-01-01). "A study of Pc-5 ULF oscillations". Annales Geophysicae. 22 (1): 289–302. Bibcode:2004AnGeo..22..289H. doi: 10.5194/angeo-22-289-2004 . ISSN   1432-0576.
  15. ↑ Jeffrey Hughes, W.; Hudson, Mary K. (2004). "Towards an integrated model of the space weather system" . Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 66 (15–16): 1241–1242. Bibcode:2004JASTP..66.1241J. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2004.06.001. ISSN   1364-6826.
  16. ↑ Skibba, Ramin (2021-02-26). "Solar storms can wreak havoc. We need better space weather forecasts". Science News. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  17. ↑ Hudson, Mary K.; Kress, Brian T.; Mueller, Hans-R.; Zastrow, Jordan A.; Bernard Blake, J. (2008-03-01). "Relationship of the Van Allen radiation belts to solar wind drivers" . Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 70 (5): 708–729. Bibcode:2008JASTP..70..708H. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2007.11.003. ISSN   1364-6826.
  18. ↑ Baker, D. N.; Kanekal, S. G.; Hoxie, V. C.; Henderson, M. G.; Li, X.; Spence, H. E.; Elkington, S. R.; Friedel, R. H. W.; Goldstein, J.; Hudson, M. K.; Reeves, G. D. (2013-04-12). "A Long-Lived Relativistic Electron Storage Ring Embedded in Earth's Outer Van Allen Belt". Science. 340 (6129): 186–190. Bibcode:2013Sci...340..186B. doi:10.1126/science.1233518. OSTI   1221156. PMID   23450000. S2CID   206547050.
  19. ↑ Li, W.; Hudson, M.K. (November 2019). "Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts: From Discovery to the Van Allen Probes Era". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 124 (11): 8319–8351. Bibcode:2019JGRA..124.8319L. doi: 10.1029/2018JA025940 . S2CID   213666571.
  20. ↑ "Hudson". Honors Program. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  21. ↑ "James B. Macelwane Medal | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  22. ↑ "James Van Allen Lecture". AGU. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  23. ↑ "John Adam Fleming Medal | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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