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William Lotko

Professor of Engineering
603/646-3485
William.Lotko@Dartmouth.edu

Education

• B.S., Engineering Physics, University of Kansas 1973
• M.S., Physics, University of Missouri 1976
• Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 1981

Research Interests

Geospace environment; space plasma physics, modeling, simulation; electromagnetic fields and waves.

Current Research Projects

• Computational plasma dynamics
• Geospace environment modeling
• Magnetohydrodynamics
• Space plasma physics

Teaching, 2008-2010

• ENGS 21 Introduction to Engineering (course description, home page)
• ENGS 100 Methods in Applied Mathematics I (course description, home page)
• ENGS 152 Magnetohydrodynamics (course description)

Selected Publications

• Coupling between density structures, electromagnetic waves and ionospheric feedback in the auroral zone, A. V. Streltsov, W. Lotko (2008). J. Geophys. Res., 113, A05212, doi:10.1029/2007JA012594.

• Reduced magnetohydrodynamic equations with coupled Alfvén and sound wave dynamics, R. E. Denton, B. Rogers, W. Lotko (2007). Phys. Plasmas, 14(10), 102906, DOI:10.1063/1.2786060

• The magnetosphere-ionosphere system from the perspective of plasma circulation: A tutorial, W. Lotko (2007), J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys. 69(3), 191-211, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2006.08.011

• Ultralow-frequency electrodynamics of the magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction, A. V. Streltsov, W. Lotko (2005). J. Geophys. Res. 110(A8), A08203, doi:10.1029/2004JA010764

• Inductive magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, W. Lotko (2004), J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 66(15-16), 1443-1456, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2004.03.027

• Auroral Plasma Physics, W. Lotko (contributing author) edited by G. Paschmann, S. Haaland and R. Treumann (2003). International Space Science Institute, vol. 15, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Award

• Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Professional Activities

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

• NASA Geospace Management and Operations Working Group, Chair

• NASA Living With a Star Targeted Research & Technology Program, Project Team Leader

• Geospace Environment Modeling Program: Working Group on Electrodynamics of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Co-Chair

• Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, Co-Investigator

• New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

In the News

• Dartmouth Faculty—Scholarship Today
  Summer 2004
  "Space Weather Starts at the Sun"
  By Susan Knapp

• VOX of Dartmouth
  September 23, 2002
  "Space weather forecasters"
  By Susan Knapp