John C. Foster

Group Leader, Atmospheric Sciences Group, Millstone Hill Observatory

Associate Director, M.I.T. Haystack Observatory

Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

• Magnetosphere/ionosphere/atmosphere coupling
• Incoherent scatter radar
• Plasma waves and instabilities.
• Ionospheric convection electric fields, and cleft and high latitude phenomena.
• International research facilities and scientific collaboration (Former Soviet Union) (Kharkov ISR, heater, Ukraine)

  Information on the Millstone Hill Observatory

  MHO User Notes

  Recent Observations from Millstone Hill

  

  Papers:

  1. Ionospheric Signatures of Plasmaspheric Tails (download PDF)

  2. SAPS: A New Characterization for Sub-Auroral Electric Fields (download PDF)

  3. Average Characteristics and Activity Dependence of the Subauroral Polarization Stream (download PDF)

  4. A Quantitative Study of Density Gradients at Mid-Latitudes (download PDF)

  5. Simultaneous Observations of E-Region Coherent Backscatter and Electric Field Amplitude at F-Region Heights with the Millstone Hill UHF Radar (download PDF)

  6. Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Perturbation Associated with the Spacelab-2 Ionospheric Depletion Experiment at Millstone Hill

  7. Prompt Mid-Latitude Electric Field Effects during Severe Geomagnetic Storms

  8. Mid-Latitude Particle and Electric Field Effects at the Onset of the November 1993 Geomagnetic Storm

  9. Radar Observations of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling at Mid and High Latitudes

  10. Millstone Hill Observations of Coherent Backscatter near Perpendicular Magnetic Aspect Angle

  11. Storm Time Plasma Transport at Middle and High Latitudes

  Recent Abstracts:

  J. C. Foster: recent abstracts

  Recent Activities:

  Mesa Verde 2006 (01/06)

  New Mexico 2005 (07/05)

  IAGA Vietnam 2001 (08/01)

  Colorado 2000 (06/00)

  Siberian Science (0/99)