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Simon G. Shepherd

Associate Professor of Engineering

1-603-646-0096
simon.g.shepherd@dartmouth.edu

Education

B.A., Physics, Middlebury College 1989
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington 1991
Ph.D., Physics, Dartmouth College 1998

Research Interests

HF radar development; ionospheric plasma convection and physics; solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere coupling; space weather and climatology

Current Research Projects

Teaching

ENGS 20: Introduction to Scientific Computing
ENGS 91: Numerical Methods in Computation

News

Auroral Radar Network Expansion for Space Weather Forecasting to be Completed This Year
March 13, 2013
Government touts importance of integrating the Azores in the project SuperDARN
Azores Government
January 13, 2012
Dartmouth researcher receives NSF grant to build radar systems for space science and engineering
Dartmouth News
May 3, 2009

In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine

The Space Weathermen: Space weather researchers William Lotko and Simon Shepherd want to help protect the technological world from solar storms
Winter 2013
Lab Report: New Radar Expands View of Space Weather
Winter 2011
Kudos
Winter 2010
Investiture: Class of 2007
Winter 2008
Just One Question: What's Your Favorite Thayer School Class?
Fall 2006

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