Physics and Astronomy

Stephen Kaeppler receives the NSF CAREER Award

Stephen Kaeppler, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will receive a five-year National Foundation CAREER Grant of $721,601 to continue his research into observational and modeling investigations of pulsating aurora electrodynamics.  What are Auroras? They are unimaginable light shows that shower the north and south poles. They occur due to the interaction of charged particles […]

Clemson Team Returns to Poker Flat Research Range for MTeX Mission

The Spring 2013 issue of Schrödinger’s Tiger described the Department’s participation in the newly awarded NASA sounding rocket experiment “MTeX,” led by the University of Alaska to study turbulence in the mesosphere-lower thermosphere region. During the holiday break of 2014/2015 I was fortunate enough to travel with Clemson coinvestigator Dr. Gerald Lehmacher to Fairbanks for […]