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Jie Zhang
Assistant Professor of Space
Weather Sciences
Director of Space Weather Lab at GMU
(link to http://spaceweather.gmu.edu/)
Mailing
Address
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
College of Science
George Mason University
4400 University Dr., MSN 6A2
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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Current Research
Interests
My main research interest has
two folds. The first one focuses on the science on fully understanding
the
physical mechanisms of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs),
the two most energetic phenomena
occurring on the
Sun but affect the environment throughout the entire solar system,
including
the space near the Earth, Moon and Mars. The second one focuses on the
practical purpose of creating robust models to characterize the
initiation and
propagation of these eruptions across the integrated Sun-Earth system
with the
aim of providing accurate prediction of space weather. This research is
closely
tied with several ongoing research programs sponsored by federal
agencies
including NASA, NSF and DoD,
e.g., National Space Weather Program and Living With a Star Program.
This
research has impacts not only on addressing the fundamental physics
problems,
such as plasma instability and magnetic reconnection, but also on
addressing
societal needs of mitigating adverse space weather effects on human
space
exploration, robotic satellite operation, communication and navigation.
Education
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Post-Doc. 2000- 2008 - Naval
Research Lab
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Ph.D. 1999 - University
of Maryland,
Astrophysics
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M.S. 1993- Chinese Academy
of Science, Astrophysics, Purple Mountain
Observatory
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B.S. 1990 - Nanjing
University,
Astronomy
Courses Taught
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ASTR 111: Introduction to Modern
Astronomy I
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ASTR 113: Introduction to Modern
Astronomy II
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ASTR 112: Introduction to Modern
Astronomy Lab 1
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CSI 769/ASTR 590: Solar Atmosphere
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CSI 662 / ASTR 769: Introduction
to Space Weather
Recent Publications
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Zhang, J.,
Richardson, I.G., Webb, D.F., Gopalswamy,
N., Huttunen, E., Kasper, J., Nitta, N., Poomvises,
W., Thompson, B.J., Wu, C.-C., Yashiro, S., and Zhukov, A., “Solar and
interplanetary sources of major geomagnetic storms (Dst
≤ -100 nT) During 1996 – 2005”, Journal of Geophysicsal Research, Vol.
112, Issue A10, CiteID A10102, doi:
10.1029/2007JA012321, 2007
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Wang Y.-M., Zhang,
J., “A Comparative Study between Eruptive X-Class Flares Associated
with
Coronal Mass Ejections and Confined X-Class Flares”, Astrophysical
Journal, Vol 665, PP.1428-1438, 2007
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Zhang,
J., Dere, K.P., “A Statistical Study of Main and Residual Accelerations
of Coronal Mass
Ejections”, The Astrophysical Journal, 649,
PP.1100-1109, 2006
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Richardson,
I.G., Webb, D.F., Zhang, J., Berdichevsky,
D.B., Biesecker, D.A., Kasper, J.C., Kataoka,
R.., Steinberg, J.T., Thompson, B.J., Wu, C.-C., Zhukov, A.N., “Major
Geomagnetic Storms (Dst <= -100 nT) Generated by Corotating
Interaction Regions”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, A07S09, doi:
10.1029/2005JA011476, 2006
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Zhang,
J., Dere, K.P., Howard, R.A., Vourlidas,
“A Study of the Kinematic Evolution of
Coronal Mass Ejections”,The
Astrophysical
Journal, Vol. 604, P. 420-432, 2004
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