Frances Bagenal
| Frances Bagenal | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 4, 1954 Dorchester, Dorset, England |
| Fields | Planetary Science |
| Institutions | NASA |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Work on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist |
Frances (Fran) Bagenal is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.
Career
Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.[1] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[2] Bagenal chairs NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer solar system.[3] Her career research endeavors have earned 4412 citations and she has an h-index of 38.[4] She was selected to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.[5]
Selected publications
- Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
- Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.
References
- ↑ Frances Bagenal’s Curriculum Vitae
- ↑ Fran Bagenal's NASA profile
- ↑ Fran Bagenal’s Bio on Café Sci
- ↑ "Fran Bagenal". Google Scholar profiles. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
- ↑
External links
- NASA Interview with Fran Bagenal about New Horizons
- Astrobiology Magazine, October 17, 2013, “From Plasma Science to Dwarf Planets: Fran Bagenal”
- Women in Planetary Science interview with Bagenal