Kristina Anne Lynch
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Undergraduate Advisor
Area of Expertise
Rockets,
FAST satellite program,
plasma physics,
auroral structures,
cubesat array development,
thermal plasmas,
plasma sheath structures,
autonomous sensorcraft
Biography
Kristina Lynch is an experimental physicist specializing in the plasma physics of the auroral ionosphere. She has been at Dartmouth College since 2002. Her undergraduate degree was from Washington University in St Louis (1984). After this she spent four years at the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory in Massachusetts, working on the CRRES satellite. She did her graduate work at the University of New Hampshire (PhD in 1992) working on auroral sounding rockets. From 1992 to 2002 she worked at the UNH Space Science Center on sounding rockets and the European Cluster satellite project. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union.
Education
A.B. Washington University in St Louis
M.S. University of New Hampshire
Ph.D. University of New Hampshire
Taught Courses
Publications
M U Siddiqui, L E Gayetsky, M R Mella, K A Lynch, and M R Lessard, A laboratory experiment to examine the eect of auroral beams on spacecraft charging in the ionosphere, Physics of Plasmas, 2011.
L Gayetsky and K Lynch, Plasma Evolution from a Resonance Cavity Source, Rev Scientic Inst, 2011.
Frederick-Frost, K., and K. A. Lynch, Experimental studies of low density and temperature ion and electron sheaths, Physics of Plasmas, 2007.
Frederick-Frost, K., and K. Lynch, Low energy stable plasma calibration facility, Rev. Scientic Inst., 2007.
M Zettergren, K Lynch, D Hampton, et al., Auroral ionospheric F-region density cavity formation and evolution: MICA campaign results, J Geophys Res, 2014.
K A Lynch, M Mella, D Hampton, et al., Structure and dynamics of the nightside poleward boundary: sounding rocket and groundbased observations of auroral electron precipitation in rayed curtain, J Geophys Res, 2012.
Works in Progress
Isinglass sounding rocket; RENU2 sounding rocket; GreenCube small payload development
Selected Works & Activities
Principal investigator, Isinglass sounding rocket, Cascades2 sounding rocket, Dust Orion sounding rocket program, Enstrophy sounding rocket program
Co-investigator, SERSIO, SIERRA, SAL, ROPA, SCIFER2, RENU, MICA, RENU2, SmallRockets sounding rocket programs
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