Jodie Ream is a Space Physicist specializing in magnetospheric physics and plasma waves. She joins the Weiss Lab this month as a research scientist under aegis of the Psyche Discovery Mission。
her research focused on analyzing magnetic pulsations, designated as Pi2 pulsations, observed on the ground concurrently with the onset of auroral substorms. In that work she used the results from simulations of the earth’s magnetosphere to determine the magnetospheric source for those pulsations.
In particular, she has been investigating the prospects of enhancing the capabilities of global magnetospheric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations by incorporating a more realistic, physics-based, ionospheric boundary, in order to investigate the environment surrounding Earth from the ground up.