Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2024 Acceleration and Release of Solar Energetic Particles Associated with a Coronal Shock on 2021 September 28 Observed by Four Spacecraft.  The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).  963:119-119. 2024
2023 HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence.  Space Science Reviews.  219. 2023
2022 Langmuir-Slow Extraordinary Mode Magnetic Signature Observations with Parker Solar Probe.  The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).  927:95-95. 2022
2022 Suprathermal Ion Energy Spectra and Anisotropies near the Heliospheric Current Sheet Crossing Observed by the Parker Solar Probe during Encounter 7.  The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).  927:62-62. 2022
2021 Energetic Electron Observations by Parker Solar Probe/IS circle dot IS during the First Widespread SEP Event of Solar Cycle 25 on 2020 November 29.  The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).  919:119-119. 2021
2020 Defining Radiation Belt Enhancement Events Based on Probability Distributions.  Space Weather.  18. 2020
2020 A Survey of Interplanetary Small Flux Ropes at Mercury 2020
2018 Update on the Worsening Particle Radiation Environment Observed by CRaTER and Implications for Future Human Deep-Space Exploration.  Space Weather.  16:289-303. 2018
2016 Observations of energetic particle escape at themagnetopause: Early results from the MMS Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS).  Geophysical Research Letters.  43:5960-5968. 2016
2016 Density variations in the Earth's magnetospheric cusps.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics.  121:2131-2142. 2016
2015 "Trunk-like" heavy ion structures observed by the Van Allen Probes.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics.  120:8738-8748. 2015
2014 Simulations of inner magnetosphere dynamics with an expanded RAM-SCB model and comparisons with Van Allen Probes observations.  Geophysical Research Letters.  41:2687-2694. 2014
2013 Helium, Oxygen, Proton, and Electron (HOPE) Mass Spectrometer for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission.  Space Science Reviews.  179:423-484. 2013
2013 Science Goals and Overview of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma (ECT) Suite on NASA's Van Allen Probes Mission.  Space Science Reviews.  179:311-336. 2013
2013 Electron acceleration in the heart of the Van Allen radiation belts..  Science.  341:991-994. 2013
2012 Association of cusp energetic ions with geomagnetic storms and substorms.  Annales Geophysicae.  30:1633-1643. 2012
2010 A new generation mechanism of butterfly pitch angle distributions of energetic ions: Multiple pitch angle scattering in the stretched magnetic field.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics.  115. 2010
2010 Size and location of cusp diamagnetic cavities observed by Polar.  Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics.  115. 2010
2008 Interdependence of magnetic field and plasma pressures in cusp diamagnetic cavities.  Geophysical Research Letters.  35. 2008
2004 Microwave observations of Saturn's rings: anisotropy in directly transmitted and scattered saturnian thermal emission.  Icarus.  171:183-198. 2004
2000 Spontaneous pattern formation in an effectively one-dimensional dielectric-barrier discharge system..  Physical Review Letters.  85:3817-3820. 2000
Collaborative and Open-Source Science Data Systems.  Bulletin of the AAS. 
HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence.  Bulletin of the AAS. 

Article

Year Title
2020 Defining Radiation Belt Enhancement Events Based on Probability Distributions 2020

Education And Training

  • B.A. Physics, Calvin College
  • B.S. Computer Science, Calvin College
  • M.A. Astronomy, Boston University
  • Ph.D. Astronomy, Boston University

    • Full Name

  • Jonathan Niehof