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 Margaret Kivelson, Professor of Space Physics


Margaret Kivelson 
Mailing Address:

Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Office:6843 Slichter
Telephone:(310) 825-3435
Fax:(310) 825-2779
E-mail:mkivelson@igpp.ucla.edu
Web Site:Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
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 Current Research Interest

 Magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth and Jupiter (theory and data analysis), interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and moons (theory, data collection, data analysis).

 Education

 

Ph.D., 1957, Harvard University

 Selected Publications

 DuBois, D. F., V. Gilinsky, and M. G. Kivelson, Propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasmas, Phys. Rev., 129, 2376, 1962.
 Kivelson, M. G., S. M. Kaye, and D. J. Southwood, The physics of plasma injection events, in Dynamics of the Magnetosphere, (S. I. Akasofu, Editor), D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 1979.
 Kivelson, M.G. and D.J. Southwood, Coupling of global magnetospheric MHD eigenmodes to field line resonances, (IGPP Pub. #2557), J. Geophys. Res., 91(A4), 4345-4351, 1986.
 Kivelson, M. G., and D. J. Southwood, Coupling of global magnetospheric MHD eigenmodes to field line resonances, J. Geophys. Res., 91(A4), 4345-4351, 1986.
 

Kivelson, M.G., and H.E. Spence, On the possibility of quasi-static convection in the quiet magnetotail, (IGPP Pub. #3181), Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 1501, 1988.

 Kivelson, M. G., L. F. Bargatze, K. K. Khurana, D. J. Southwood, R. J. Walker, and P. J. Coleman, Jr., Magnetic signatures near Galileo's closest approach to Gaspra, Science, 261, 331, 1993.
 Chen, S.-H., M.G. Kivelson, J.T. Gosling, R.J. Walker, and A.J. Lazarus, Anomalous aspects of magnetosheath flow and of the shape and oscillation of the magnetopause during an interval of strongly northward interplanetary magnetic field, (UCLA IGPP Pub. No. #3696) J. Geophys. Res., 98, 5727, 1993.
 Kivelson, M.G., L.F. Bargatze, K.K. Khurana, D.J. Southwood, R.J. Walker, and P.J. Coleman, Jr., Magnetic signatures near Galileo’s closest approach to Gaspra, (UCLA IGPP Pub. No. #3845), Science, 261, 331, 1993.
 Kivelson, M.G., Z. Wang, S. Joy, K.K. Khurana, C. Polanskey, D.J. Southwood, and R.J. Walker, Solar wind interaction with small bodies: 2. What can Galileo’s detection of magnetic rotations tell us about Gaspra and Ida. (IGPP Pub. No. 4194), Adv. In Space Res., 16, 59, 1995.
 Kivelson, M.G., and S.H. Chen, The magnetopause: Surface waves and instabilities and their possible dynamical consequences, p. 257 in AGU Monograph 90, Physics of Magnetopause, edited by P.Song and B.U.O. Sonnerup, AGU, Washington, D.C., 1995
 Kivelson, M.G., and K.K. Khurana, Models of flux ropes embedded in a Harris neutral sheet: Force free solutions in low and high beta plasmas, (UCLA IGPP Pub. Number 4244), J. Geophys. Res., 100, December 1995.
 Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, R.J. Walker, J.A. Linker, C.T. Russell, D.J. Southwood, and C. Polanskey, A magnetic signature at Io: Initial report from the Galileo magnetometer, Science, 273, 337, 1996.
 Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, J. Warnecke, F.V. Coroniti, C. Polanskey, D.J. Southwood, and C. Schubert, Discovery of Ganymede's magnetic field by the Galileo spacecraft, Nature, 384, 537, 1996.
 Kivelson, M.G, K.K. Khurana, C.T. Russell, and R.J. Walker, Intermittent short-duration plasma-field anomalies in the Io plasma torus: Evidence for interchange in the Io plasma torus?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2127, 1997.
 Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, F.V. Coroniti, S. Joy, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, J. Warnecke, L. Bennett, and C. Polanskey, The magnetic field and magnetosphere of Ganymede, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2155, 1997.
 Kivelson, M.G., M. Cao, R.L. McPherron, and R.J. Walker, A possible signature of magnetic cavity mode oscillations in ISEE spacecraft observations, J. Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, 49, 1079, 1997.
 Kivelson, M.G., J. Warnecke, L. Bennett, S. Joy, K.K. Khurana, J.A. Linker, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, and C. Polanskey, Ganymede’s magnetosphere: Magnetometer overview, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 19,963, 1998.
 Kivelson, M.G., and F. Bagenal, Planetary magnetospheres, The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, P. Weissman, L.-A. McFadden, and T. Johnson, Eds.-in-Chief, Academic Press, pp. 477, 1998.
 Kivelson, M.G., K.K. Khurana, D.J. Stevenson, L. Bennett, S. Joy, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, C. Zimmer, and C. Polanskey, Europa and Callisto: Induced or intrinsic fields in a periodically varying plasma environment, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 4609, 1999.

 Graduate Students

 

Janet Green
jgreen@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/jgreen.html

 Larry Kepko
lkepko@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/lkepko.html
 Scott Thompson
sthompson@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/sthomp.html

 Post Doc Students

 

Martin Volwerk
mvolwerk@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/mvolwerk.html

 Christophe Zimmer

 
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