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As a graduate student, I became interested in some of the ATS-6
observations of PC5 pulsations. The standing Alfven wave always struck me as interesting, and we got one on Dynamics Explorer. Plasma
and Field Observations of a Pc 5 Wave Event. It was one of the first times anybody had directly measured the mass loading for the oscillation
directly from the plasma. Later, I had a student who studied a
particularly nice event from SCATHA. Patterson (1987): Observations
of a hydromagnetic wave in the earth's magnetosphere. I gave an IAGA
talk on this, but could never convince myself there was enough new to warrant
publishing.
Pierrette Decreau and her family came
to Huntsville for a post-doc, before she took up her regular duties back in
France. (she became a PI on Cluster, and has continued to do well). Though not overly involved, I am listed as
a co-author on a study of plasmasphere filling she did. Latitudinal Plasma Distribution In The Dusk Plasmaspheric
Bulge
In a similar vein, Tsugunobu
Nagai came to Huntsville for a post-doctoral appointment. He's made a lot
of progress on substorms since then, and has risen to a very respectable position in Japan.
Field-Aligned Currents Associated With
Substorms
(I was also a co-I on Nagai's Polar
Wind article, with somewhat more justification).
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