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Kristina Anne Lynch is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, serving as Undergraduate Advisor. She specializes in plasma physics and auroral ionosphere studies, with expertise in sounding rockets and satellite missions. Her research focuses on auroral structures, spacecraft charging, and autonomous sensorcraft development.
Education: A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis (1984), M.S. and Ph.D. from University of New Hampshire (1992). Professional experience includes work at the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and UNH Space Science Center before joining Dartmouth in 2002.
Research interests include auroral ionosphere dynamics, plasma evolution, and laboratory plasma calibration. She leads projects like the ELEPHANT facility and the GNEISS sounding rocket mission, aiming to study three-dimensional ionospheric responses to auroral phenomena. Her lab develops small spacecraft technologies and student-centered projects like the 'Boblet' subpayload.
Key contributions include studies on spacecraft charging mechanisms, resonance cavity plasma sources, and low-density plasma sheaths. She collaborates on missions such as Cascades-2, Isinglass, and the ESA SWARM satellite data analysis.
Lynch is a Principal Investigator for multiple rocket programs and co-investigator on projects like RENU, MICA, and SCIFER-2. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in classical mechanics and electromagnetism.
