Welcome
I am an Assistant Research Physicist in the Space Physics Research Group of the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Previously I used to work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (in
THEMIS
TOHBAN PAGE – under development
Summary of Research Interests
I conduct research into the basic properties of collisionless plasmas, by analyzing spacecraft observations of plasma in space. This helps us to understand and predict Space Weather. Space weather research is our effort to understand how the conditions in space near the Earth are affected by the Sun. I am interested in two problems:
- The physics of the Earth's bow shock.
- Magnetic reconnection, and how it enables space weather.
I have extensively used data from the multi-spacecraft Cluster mission and now THEMIS (based here at Berkeley).
THEMIS Press Conference at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
On 11 December 2007, I, Dave Sibeck and Vassilis Angelopoulos participated in a NASA press conference at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
You can read the NASA press release and associated materials here:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/northern_lights.html
You can read the UC Berkeley press release here:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/12/11_themis.shtml
Publications
Follow this link for publications.
Links
Links to useful resources: Data, journal e-alerts, e-newsletters for space physics, funding etc.
Other bits and pieces
Education and previous employment
A short version of my CV.
This page was last updated on 11 April 2008