Brian J. Jackel

Physics and Astronomy

University of Calgary

Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4

abqnp8@r.postjobfree.com

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Coordinated studies of ground-based and satellite data.

Multi-site observations of rapid global ionospheric response.

Optical measurements of the aurora applied to magnetospheric remote sensing.

Signal processing, stochastic processes, and information theory.

Education

Ph.D. Physics, University of Western Ontario, November 1997. Coursework included com-

putational physics, antennas and radio wave propagation, tropospheric and ionospheric propa-

gation, radio remote sensing.

M.Sc. Physics, University of Western Ontario, August 1992. Coursework included mathe-

matical methods, statistical physics, classical electrodynamics, ionospheric physics, introduc-

tory plasma physics, non-linear plasma physics.

B.Sc. Geophysics (Honors), University of Alberta, May 1990. Coursework included physics,

mathematics, computer science, geology, geophysical eld school, seismology, potential theory,

time-series analysis.

Teaching Experience

Instructor of a rst year electricity and magnetism physics course for 150 engineering students.

Five years as demonstrator for a second year modern physics lab course.

Tutorial leader for a rst year physics lecture.

Academic Awards

Faculty of Science Research Fellowship for Physics and Astronomy, UCalgary (1999)

Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Physics, UWO (1994)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, UWO (1993, 95)

Best Student Paper, DASP Winter Workshop (1992, 93, 95)

University of Western Ontario Entrance Scholarship, UWO (1991, 92)

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, UWO (1991, 92)

Norcen Energy Resources Scholarship, UAlberta (1989)

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, UAlberta (1989, 90)

Amoco Canada undergraduate Scholarship, UAlberta (1989)

APEGGA Scholarship in Geophysics, UAlberta (1988)

University of Alberta Matriculation Scholarship, UAlberta (1985)

Contributions to Research

Refereed publications

(1) B. Jackel, E. Donovan, D. Wallis, Lognormal distributions of auroral geomagnetic time derivatives, Journal of

Geophysical Research, submitted, 2005.

(2) E. Donovan, S. Mende, B. Jackel, H. Frey, M. Syrj suo, I. Voronkov, T. Trondsen, L. Peticolas, V. Angelopoulos,

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S. Harris,M. Greffen, and M. Connors, The THEMIS All-Sky Imaging Array - System Design and Initial Results

from the Prototype Imager, Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, accepted, 2005.

(3) E. Spanswick, E. Donovan, W. Liu, D. Wallis, A. Aasnes, T. Hiebert, B. Jackel, M. Henderson, and H. Frey, Sub-

storm associated spikes in high energy particle precipitation, The Inner Magnetosphere : Physics and Modelling,

Geophysical Monograph Series 155, pg 227-236, 2005

(4) Gregory J. Baker, Eric F. Donovan, Brian J. Jackel, A comprehensive survey of auroral latitude Pc5 pulsation

characteristics, Journal of Geophysical Research Vol. 108, No. A10, 1384 10.1029/2002JA009801, 29 October

2003

(5) J. C. Brown, A. R. Taylor and B. J. Jackel, Rotation measures of compact sources in the Canadian Galactic Plane

Survey, Astrophysical Journal Supplement 145:213-223, 2003.

(6) E.F. Donovan, B.J. Jackel, I. Voronkov, T. Sotirelis, F. Creutzberg and N.A. Nicholson, Ground-based Optical

Determination of the b2i Boundary: A Basis for an Optical MT-index, Journal of Geophysical Research A3:1115,

doi:1029/2001JA009198, 2003.

(7) B.J. Jackel, D.R. Moorcroft, J.C. Foster and K. Schlegel, Spectral characteristics of UHF radar aurora, Journal

of Geophysical Research 10.1029/2001/JA000165, 2002.

(8) B.J. Jackel, P. Eglitis, E.F. Donovan, A.T. Viljanen, D.D. Wallis, L.L. Cogger and H.J. Opgenoorth, Observations

of highly correlated near-simultaneous magnetic eld perturbations at contraposed ground stations. Journal of

Geophysical Research A11:258**-*****, 2001

(9) W. Lyatsky, L.L. Cogger, B.J. Jackel, A.M. Hamza, W.J. Hughes, D. Murr and O. Rasmussen, Substorm de-

velopment as observed by a UV imager and a 2-D magnetic array, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial

Physics 63:1609-1621, 2001.

(10) D.J. Knudsen, E.F. Donovan, L.L. Cogger, B. Jackel and W.D. Shaw, Width and structure of mesoscale optical

auroral arcs, Geophysical Research Letters 28:705-708, 2001.

(11) H.J. Opgenoorth and 58 other authors including B.J. Jackel, Coordinated ground-based, low altitude satellite

and Cluster observations on global and local scales during a transient post-noon sector excursion of the magne-

tospheric cusp, Annales Geophysicae, 19:1367 - 1398, 2001.

(12) B.J. Jackel, Characterization of auroral radar power spectra and autocorrelation functions, Radio Science 35:1009-

1023, 2000.

(13) I. Voronkov, E. F. Donovan, B.J. Jackel and J.C. Samson, Large-scale vortex dynamics in the evening and

midnight auroral zone: Observations and simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research A8:185**-*****, 2000.

(14) E.F. Donovan, B. Jackel and L.L. Cogger, The Aurora, Physics in Canada 54:285-294, 1998.

(15) B. Jackel, D.R. Moorcroft and K. Schlegel, Characteristics of very large aspect angle E-region coherent echoes

at 933 Mhz, Annales Geophysicae 15:54-62, 1997.

(16) G. Rostoker, B. Jackel and R. Arnoldy, The relationship of periodic structures in auroral luminosity in the post-

noon sector to ULF pulsations, Geophysical Research Letters 19:613-616, 1992.

Invited Talks

(1) B. Jackel, Design and operation of large scale multi-instrument networks, invited presentation at the 10th Sci-

enti c Assembly of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) session on Global

scale synthesis from models and distributed observations, Toulouse France, July 18-29, 2005.

(2) B. Jackel, Data retrieval and software con guration for THEMIS Ground-based observatories, invited presenta-

tion at the THEMIS NASA EPR, University of California (Berkeley), October 2003.

(3) B. Jackel, D. Moorcroft and J.C. Foster, Spectral Characteristics of UHF Radar Aurora, invited presentation at

the DASP meeting in London Ontario, February 1998.

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Theses

(1) B. Jackel, Spectral Characteristics of UHF Radar Aurora, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1997.

(2) B. Jackel, Height pro les, aspect sensitivity, and spectral characteristics of large aspect angle radar echoes at

933 Mhz, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1992.

Refereed conference proceedings

(1) B. J. Jackel, F. Creutzberg, E. F. Donovan, and L.L. Cogger, Triangulation of auroral red-line emission heights

Proc. of Atmos. Studies by Optical Methods, 2003.

(2) E.F. Donovan, B.J. Jackel, D. Klumpar, and R. Strangeway, Energy dependence of the isotropy boundary lati-

tude, Proc. of Atmos. Studies by Optical Methods, 2003.

(3) N. A. Nicholson, E. F. Donovan, B. J. Jackel, L. L. Cogger and D. Lummerzheim, Multipoint Measurements of

the Ion Isotropy Boundary Proc. of Atmos. Studies by Optical Methods, 2003.

(4) E.F. Donovan, T.S. Trondsen, L.L. Cogger and B.J. Jackel, Auroral imaging in Canadian CANOPUS and

NORSTAR programs, Proc. of Atmos. Studies by Optical Methods, 2003.

Non-refereed conference proceedings

(1) M.T. Syrj suo, B.J. Jackel, E.F. Donovan, T.S. Trondsen and M. Greffen, Low-cost multi-band ground-based imaging of the

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aurora, Proc. of SPIE Volume 5901 Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation (eds. Silvano Fineschi, Rodney A.

Viereck), in press, 2005

(2) B.J. Jackel and E.F. Donovan, Azimuthal substorm propagation inferred from an L-shell chain of ground-based magnetome-

ters, Sixth International Conference on Substorms, 129-134, 2002.

(3) N.A. Nicholson, E.F. Donovan, B.J. Jackel, I. Voronkov, L.L. Cogger, D. Lummerzheim, F. Creutzberg and T. Sotirelis,

Multipoint observations of the ion isotropy/b2i boundary, Sixth International Conference on Substorms, 157-162, 2002.

Posters and presentations at international conferences

(1) B. Jackel and E.F. Donovan, Geospace Sensor Networks, presentation at the session on Distributed Arrays of Small Instru-

ments (DASI) during the combined CEDAR/GEM meeting, Santa Fe USA, June 26-July 1 2005.

(2) B. Jackel, E.F. Donovan, M. Greffen, S. Harris, S. Mende, V. Angelopoulos, Infrastructure and autonomy: a comparison of

the new CGSM and THEMIS-GBO instrument arrays, poster at the fall AGU meeting, San Francisco USA, 13-17 December

2004.

(3) B. Jackel, E.F. Donovan, and L.L. Cogger, Detached arcs observed by the InterBall-2 Ultra-Violet Imager, presentation at the

31st Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Ambleside England, August 2004.

(4) E. Donovan, B. Jackel, M.T. Syrj suo, T. Trondsen, S. Mende and H. Nielsen, Real-time merged images of auroral luminosity

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from distributed arrays of all-sky imagers, presentation at the 31st Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by

Optical Methods, Ambleside England, August 2004.

(5) M.T. Syrj suo, B. Jackel, E. Donovan, RAINBOW: the color imager, presentation at the 31st Annual European Meeting on

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Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Ambleside England, August 2004.

(6) E. Spanswick, E. Donovan, G. Baker, D. Wallis and B. Jackel, Pc5 modulation of high-energy electron precipitation, pre-

sentation at the 31st Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Ambleside England, August

2004.

(7) B. Jackel, E.F. Donovan, G.J. Baker, D.D. Wallis, D.H. Boteler, Auroral zone GIC proxy dependence on solar wind speed,

poster at the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 8-12 2003.

(8) E.F. Donovan, M. Syrjasuo, B. Jackel, T. Trondsen, M. Greffen, L. Cogger, E. Spanswick, S. Mende, S. Harris, M. Connors,

H. Frey, V. Angelopoulos, The THEMIS all-sky imager array, poster at the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco USA, December

8-12 2003.

(9) M. Connors, E.F. Donovan, M. Syrjasuo, M. Greffen, S.B. Mende, C.T. Russell, B.J. Jackel, T. Trondsen, An evening sector

Ps6-Omega band event, poster at the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco USA, December 8-12 2003.

(10) E.F. Donovan, D. Knudsen, R. Rankin, G. Baker, B. Jackel, L. Cogger, and D. Wallis, The Anticorrelation of Auroral Arc

and Pc5 Pulsation Occurrence, presentation at the European Geophysical Society annual meeting, Nice France, 2003.

(11) B.J. Jackel, E.F. Donovan, T.S. Trondsen Imaging the polar cap red-line shelf, poster at the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco

USA, December 6-10 2002.

(12) E.L. Spanswick, E.F. Donovan, G. Baker, B.J. Jackel, D. Wallis and D. Knudsen (2002) Modulation of >30 KeV Electron

Precipitation by Pc5 Magnetic Pulsations, poster at the AGU fall meeting, San Francisco USA, December 6-10 2002.

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(13) T.S. Trondsen, E.F. Donovan, N. Nicholson, B.J. Jackel, L.L. Cogger and D. Lummerzheim (2002) Multipoint Observations

of the Ion Isotropy/b2i Boundary, poster at the AGU fall meeting, San Franciso USA, December 6-10 2002.

(14) B. J. Jackel and E. F. Donovan (2002) Azimuthal substorm propagation inferred from an L-shell chain of ground-based

magnetometers, poster at the International Conference on Substorms 6, March 25-29 2002, Seattle, U.S.A.

(15) N. A. Nicholson, E. F. Donovan, B. J. Jackel, L. L. Cogger D. Lummerzheim, F. Creutzberg, T. Sotirelis and I. Voronkov

(2002) Using the optical b2i as a tool for event timing, presentation at the International Conference on Substorms 6, March

25-29 2002, Seattle, U.S.A.

(16) B. J. Jackel, F. Creutzberg, E. F. Donovan, and L. L. Cogger (2001) Triangulation of auroral red-line emission heights, poster

at 28th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, 19 - 24. 8. 2001, Oulu, Finland.

(17) N. A. Nicholson, E. F. Donovan, B. J. Jackel, L. L. Cogger, D. Lummerzheim, T. Sotirelis, I. Voronkov, F. Creutzberg (2001)

Monitoring the Ion Isotropy Boundary with Multipoint Proton Auroral Measurements, talk at 28th Annual European Meeting

on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, 19 - 24. 8. 2001, Oulu, Finland.

(18) E. F. Donovan, T. S. Trondsen, L. L. Cogger, and B. J. Jackel (2001) All-sky imaging within the Canadian CANOPUS and

NORSTAR projects, talk at 28th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, 19 - 24. 8. 2001,

Oulu, Finland.

(19) P. Eglitis, B. J. Jackel, E. Boralv, A. Vaivads, E. Donovan, H.J. Opgenoorth, and J. Watermann (2001) Multi-point measure-

ments of global responses in the magnetosphere, talk at EGS meeting in Europe, February.

(20) B. J. Jackel, P. Eglitis, E. F. Donovan, and L. L. Cogger (2000), Global response observed by widely separated magnetome-

ters, poster at the AGU fall meeting, December.

(21) N. A. Nicholson, E.F. Donovan, T. Sotirelis, I. Voronkov, B.J. Jackel, L.L. Cogger, F. Creutzberg (2000) The Ion Isotropy

Boundary as Seen in Proton Auroral Measurements, poster at AGU December 2000, San Francisco.

(22) P. Eglitis, B. J. Jackel, E. Donovan and H.J. Opgenoorth (2000) Non-local responses in ionospheric convection to solar wind

effects, talk at SRAMP meeting in Japan, October.

(23) B. J. Jackel, E. F. Donovan, and L. L. Cogger (1999), Auroral regions and boundaries, poster at the AGU fall meeting,

December.

(24) Voronkov, I., E. F. Donovan, B. J. Jackel, and J. C. Samson (1999), Large-scale auroral vortex dynamics, talk at the AGU

fall meeting, December.

(25) Knudsen, D. J., E. F. Donovan, L. L. Cogger, B. J. Jackel, and W. Shaw (1999), Statistical properties of stable auroral arcs

from all-sky imager observations, talk at the AGU fall meeting, December.

(26) B. Jackel (1998) Spectral characteristics of UHF radar aurora, poster at the AGU Fall Meeting, December.

(27) E.F. Donovan, B. Jackel, G. Baker, L. L. Cogger (1998) A statistical study of transient north-south auroral structures in the

CANOPUS ASI data set, Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, December.

(28) E.F. Donovan, B. Jackel and L.L. Cogger (1998) Detached auroral arcs as seen by the InterBall UVAI imager. Presented at

the GEM Workshop, Snomass Colorado, June.

(29) B. Jackel, D. Moorcroft, J.C Foster and P. Ericson (1995) Bistatic coherent backscatter from the auroral E-region at 440 Mhz,

talk at the workshop on E-region plasma instabilities, Max-Planck Institut f r Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, 24-

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26 October.

(30) E.F. Donovan, G. Rostoker, and B. Jackel (1992) The effects of eld-aligned currents on mapping from the ionosphere to the

magnetosphere. ESA publication SP-355:19-24

(31) B. Jackel, D. Moorcroft (1991) Height pro les of EISCAT coherent scatter from the auroral E-region, talk at the AGU fall

meeting December.

(32) E.F. Donovan, G. Rostoker, B. Jackel (1990) Adding eld-aligned currents to the Tsyganenko 1987 magnetic eld model:

effects on mapping in the CPS, talk at the AGU fall meeting December.

Other non-refereed contributions

(1) N. A. Nicholson, E. F. Donovan, B. J. Jackel, L. L. Cogger, F. Creutzberg and D. Lummerzheim, A Two-point Study of the

Proton Aurora and the Ion Isotropy Boundary, presentation at SEW, Banff, 2001.

(2) E. Spanswick, E. Donovan and B. J. Jackel, Multipoint CANOPUS riometer data and future applications, presentation at

SEW, Banff, 2001.

(3) N. A. Nicholson, E. F. Donovan, B. J. Jackel, L. L. Cogger, T. Sotirelis, I. Voronkov and F. Creutzberg, Multipoint Measure-

ments of the Ion Isotropy Boundary, talk at the DASP meeting, Saskatoon, February 2001.

(4) B. J. Jackel and E. F. Donovan, Quiet proton aurora, presentation at the DASP meeting, February 2000.

(5) B. J. Jackel, E. F. Donovan and L. L. Cogger, Auroral heights obtained by triangulation, poster at the DASP meeting,

February 2000.

(6) B. Jackel, D. Steele, L.L. Cogger and E.F. Donovan, Multiple views of polar cap arcs. Presentation at the DASP meeting,

February 1999.

(7) E.F. Donovan, B. Jackel, T. Trondsen, L.L. Cogger, I. Voronkov, P. Eglitas and H. Opgenoorth, Some thoughts on ground-

based supra-mesoscale auroral imaging: ten years of Gillam ASI data and a look to the future. Presentation at the DASP

meeting, February 1999.

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(8) I. Voronkov, E. Friedrich, J.C. Samson, R. Rankin, E.F. Donovan and B. Jackel, Growth phase elements and pre-onset

conditions observed by CANOPUS and SuperDarn, Presentation at the DASP meeting, February 1999.

(9) M. Lessard, T. Trondsen, B. Jackel, E.F. Donovan, L.L. Cogger, F. Creutzberg (1999) A description of the smart auroral

multiscale imager (SAMI) for the CANOPUS array. Presented at the DASP meeting, February.

(10) B. Jackel (1998) Reconstruction of UVAI images with parametric de-smearing. Technical report to the Canadian Space

Agency, November.

(11) E.F. Donovan, B. Jackel, L.L. Cogger and T. Trondsen, NORSTAR: an array of digital all-sky imagers in the Canadian North,

project proposal to the Canadian Space Agency, November 1998.

(12) B. Jackel, E.F. Donovan and L.L. Cogger, Detached auroral arcs in InterBall auroral probe UVAI images, poster at the DASP

meeting, February 1998.

(13) B. Jackel and D. Moorcroft, Designing bistatic radar experiments, presentation at the DASP meeting, February 1996.

(14) B. Jackel, D. Moorcroft and J.C. Foster, MidasC, a Canadian-American In/Coherent scatter radar, presentation at the DASP

meeting, February, 1995.

(15) B. Jackel, D. Moorcroft and K. Schlegel Spatial structure of E-region coherent backscatter from an EISCAT rapid beam-

scanning experiment, presentation at the DASP meeting, February 1993.

(16) B. Jackel and D. Moorcroft, Height pro les of large aspect angle coherent backscatter at 933 Mhz, presentation at the DASP

annual meeting, February 1993.

(17) B. Jackel, D. Moorcroft and K. Schlegel, Modelling coherent backscatter from the auroral E-region at 933 MHz, presentation

at the Canadian Network for Space Research general meeting October, 1991.

Other evidence of impact

co-investigatory on a proposal to be submitted to NSF by Eftyhia Zesta

managing scientist for NORSTAR project (2000-2005)

co-investigator of CSA funded THEMIS program (2004-07)

co-investigator of CSA funded NORSTAR program (2001-06)

planned and executed major upgrade to CSA funded CGSM program (2003-2005)

referee for the Journal of Geophysical Research

referee for the European Geophysical Union publications

organizer of CGSM operations meeting in Saskatoon (May 2005)

invited participant at the University of Calgary Physics and Astronomy department plan-

ning retreat in Banff (2003)

examiner for Greg Baker s M.Sc. thesis defence (2002)

co-author of NORSTAR NSERC CRO proposal with E. Donovan (2000)

co-author of NORSTAR CSA proposal with E. Donovan, T. Trondsen, and L. Cogger

(1998)

Public outreach

I have appeared in numerous news articles in national and local radio, television and news-

papers. Real-time images from NORSTAR and THEMIS GBO eld sites provide an com-

pelling visual representation of sun-earth coupling. The October 2006 launch of the THEMIS

satellites will undoubtedly result in greatly increased levels of media attention and public in-

terest.

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