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Mark Moldwin

Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Director Academic Program, Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering and Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Rackham Graduate School

Space physics and engineering

I am the PI of NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Mission's NEMISIS magnetometer. GDC consists of six spacecraft to measure the energy flow from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. This energy creates structure in the upper atmosphere that can disrupt communication and navigation signals, damage power grids, and decrease satellite lifetimes.

My goal is to have a magnetometer on every vehicle in the universe to be able to understand energy flow through the entire space system.