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Eric Donovan
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Latest papers
New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere.
Science advances · 2018
Latest funding
- $5,150,000
Innovation in Space Weather Science: Leveraging NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Mission
CFI · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $967,054
AuroraX
CFI · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $10,000,000
SMILE-UVI: A UV Imager for the International Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer Satellite
CFI · 2017 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere.
MacDonald EA, Donovan E, Nishimura Y, Case NA, Gillies DM, Gallardo-Lacourt B, Archer WE, Spanswick EL, Bourassa N, Connors M, Heavner M, Jackel B, Kosar B, Knudsen DJ, Ratzlaff C, Schofield I
Innovation in Space Weather Science: Leveraging NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Mission
Principal investigators: Spanswick, Emma
Keywords: magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, remote sensing, space weather, precipitation, space plasma, space physics, space weather all-sky cameras, riometer, magnetometer, GNSS, Fabry Perot interferometer
AuroraX
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
Keywords: space plasma, aurora, space weather, magnetosphere, all sky camera, citizen science, machine vision, metadata, visualization database, web application, API, virtual observatory
SMILE-UVI: A UV Imager for the International Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer Satellite
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
Keywords: geospace, space physics, aurora, space weather, imaging, solar wind, magnetosphere, substorm, magnetic storm UV Imager, satellite instrument, auroral imager
The Transition Region Explorer (TREx) – A Ground-Based Sensor Web for Space Weather Research
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
Keywords: Aurora, Radiation Belts, Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Plasma Physics, Space Physics, Space Weather, GNSS, Imaging, Sensor Webs, Stream Computing All Sky Camera, GNSS Receiver, Riometer, Spectograph, Stream Computing HPC
Relationships Between Aurora and Magnetospheric Processes
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
The Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar: A Space Science Initiative in Nunavut
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
Keywords: Plasma, Ionosphere, Aurora, Aeronomy, Atmosphere, Solar Activity, Meteor, GNSS/GPS, Radar, Arctic
Geospace dynamics and the aurora
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
The Canadian SuperDARN/PolarDARN facility
Principal investigators: Sofko, George
Geospace dynamics and the aurora
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
Auroral Studies
Principal investigators: Donovan, Eric
Keywords: CRC
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Emma Spanswick and Brian Jackel: 36 shared papers
- David Knudsen and Emma Spanswick: 31 shared papers
- Martin Connors and Emma Spanswick: 25 shared papers
- Martin Connors and Brian Jackel: 25 shared papers
- David Knudsen and Brian Jackel: 13 shared papers
- Martin Connors and David Knudsen: 6 shared papers
- Martin Connors and Eric Donovan: 1 shared paper
- David Knudsen and Eric Donovan: 1 shared paper
- Emma Spanswick and Eric Donovan: 1 shared paper
- Brian Jackel and Eric Donovan: 1 shared paper
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics
Co-authors at University of Calgary, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Martin Connors
Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics
1 shared papers, latest 2018
David Knudsen
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Emma Spanswick
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Brian Jackel
Department of Physics and Astronomy
1 shared papers, latest 2018
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