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Research Areas

• Development of radio and optical techniques and instrumentations for probing the Earth's upper atmosphere
• Solar wind – Magnetosphere – Ionosphere coupling
• Ionospheric irregularities and structures
• Electrodynamical coupling between different regions of upper atmosphere

Research Group

Research Group Members

Current:

• Dr Robert Burston – Research Scientist
• Mr R. Chadwick – Research Technician
• Mr S.C. Mushini – Ph.D. Student
• Mr C. Watson –Ph.D. Student
• Ms R. Athieno –Ph.D. Student
• Mr H. Mezaoui –Ph.D. Student

Former Members of the Group:

• Mr D. Themens – Undergraduate summer student (2009-2011) – Curently M.Sc. student at McGill
• Ms E. Vickers-Drennan – Undergraduate summer student (2011) – Curently Undergraduate student UNB
• Mr N. Hetherington; Research Assistant (2010-2011) – Curently Ph.D. student at UofT
• Dr D. Pokhotelov – Research Scientist (2008-2010) – Currently Scientist at Finnish Meteorological Institute
• Mr L. Tymowski – System Analyst (2009-2010) – Currently System Administrator at Cybera Inc.
Mr. E. Webster – Undergraduate summer student (2009) – Currently undergraduate student at UNB.
• Ms. S. Sadighi – M.Sc. Student (2007-2009) – Currently Ph.D. student at Florida Tech, USA
• Mr. B. Wood – Undergraduate summer student (2008) – Currently graduate (M.E) student at UNB
• Mr. R. Brideau – Undergraduate summer student (2007) – Currently undergraduate student at UNB
• Mr. Z. Hamza – Undergraduate summer student (2006 and 2007) – Currently working in the industry
• Mr. M. Gill – Undergraduate summer student (2006) –
• Mr. J. Langille – Undergraduate summer student (2006) – Currently Ph.D. student at UNB

Projects

• Radiophysics Laboratory, Physics Department, UNB
• Canadian Geospace Monitoring Program
• Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN)
• SuperDARN
• e-POP Satellite Mission
• SWARM Satellite Mission
• Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP)
• Cloud-Enabled Space Weather Platform (CESWP)

Research Collaborators

• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) – Space weather forecast group and Geodetic Survey Division
• Department of National Defence. Ottawa, Canada – Dr. R. Riddols
• Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada – Dr. P. Prikryl
• University of Alberta, Edmonton – Dr. R. Rankin and Dr. I. R. Mann
• University of Calgary – Dr. E. F. Donovan, Dr. B. Jackel, Dr. D. Knudsen, and Dr. A. Yau
• University of Saskatchewan – SuperDARN group
• University of Western Ontario – Dr. J. W. MacDougall
• MIT Haystack observatory – Dr. A. J. Coster
• JHU/APL – Dr. P. T. Newell and Dr. K. Liou
• National Institute for Polar Research – Dr. Sato and his group
• Augsburg College, USA – Dr. D. Murr
• HANSCOM Air Force Research Lab – Dr. T. Pedersen
• Boston College, Dr. C. S. Carrano
• University of Bath, U.K. – Dr. C. N. Mitchell

Industrial Collaborators

• SIL, Saskatoon
• NavCanada
• Trimble Geomatics and Engineering group

• PHYS 1062 – Introductory Physics – Intersession 2011
• PHYS 2051 – Survey of Modern Physics – Fall 2009
• PHYS 2052 – Survey of Modern Physics – Winter 2006, Winter 2007, Winter 2008
• PHYS 2327 – Circuits and Elementary Electronics – Winter 2011
• PHYS 3023 – Electromagnetic fields – Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
• PHYS 3122 – Digital Electronics – Winter 2009, Winter 2011
• PHYS 4122 – Instrumentation in Physics – Winter 2008, Winter 2011
• PHYS 6021 – Electromagnetic theory (shared with Dr. Tokaryk) – Fall 2007, Fall 2008
• PHYS 6121 – Selected topics in advanced physics – Winter 2009, Winter 2011

• Representative – Commission G&H to the Canadian National Committee of URSI – 2011 – 2014
• Member – Space and Atmospheric Environment Advisory Committee (SAEAC) of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – 2006 – 2011
• Chair – Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) – 2007 – 2010
• Vice Chair – Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) – 2006 – 2007