VLF Group Ph.D. Thesis List

The following is a list of PhD Theses published by students in the VLF Group sorted by year of publication.

Barrington-Leigh, Christopher

Title - Fast Photometric Imaging of High Altitude Optical Flashes Above Thunderstorms
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Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - October, 2000
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Johnson, Michael

Title - VLF Imaging of Lightning-Induced Ionospheric Disturbances
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - September, 2000

Lehtinen, Nikolai

Title - Relativistic Runaway Electrons Above Thunderstorms [PDF, 1257 kB]
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - March 2000

Demirkol, Mehmet K.

Title - VLF Remote Sensing of the Ambient and Modified Lower Ionosphere
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - September 1999

Heinselman, Craig J.

Title - Auroral Effects on Meteoric Metals in the Upper Atmosphere
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - June 1999

Reising, Steven

Title - Remote Sensing of the Electrodynamic Coupling Between Thunderstorm Systems and the Mesosphere/Lower Ionosphere [PDF, 3516KB]
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - 1998

Cummer, Steven A.

Title - Lightning and Ionospheric Remote Sensing Using VLF/ELF Radio Atmospherics
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - August 1997

Pasko, Victor P.

Title - Dynamic Coupling of Quasi-Electrostatic Thundercloud Fields to the Mesosphere and Lower Ionosphere
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - July 1996

Shafer, David C.

Title - Spread-Spectrum VLF Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - July 1994

Rodriguez, Juan V.

Title - Modification of the Earth's Ionosphere by Very-Low-Frequency Transmitters
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - June 1994

Mielke, Thomas A.

Title - Aspects of the Magnetospheric Amplification Phenomenon in Ducted Whistler-mode Waves
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1993

Taranenko, Yuri N.

Title - Interaction with the Lower Ionosphere of Electromagnetic Pulses from Lightning: Heating, Attachment, Ionization, and Optical Emissions
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - Sep 1993

Draganov, Alexandr B.

Title - The Origin and k-Spectrum of Magnetospheric Hiss
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - Sep 1993

Ristic-Djurovic, Jasna L.

Title - Gyroresonant Scattering of Radiation Belt Electrons by Oblique Whistler Waves
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - May 1993

Burgess, William C.

Title - Lightning-Induced Coupling of the Radiation Belts to Geomagnetically Conjugate Ionospheric Regions
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - Mar 1993

Poulsen, William L.

Title - Modeling of Very Low Frequency Wave Propagation and Scattering within the Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide in the Presence of Lower Ionospheric Disturbances
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - Nov 1991

Wolf, Thomas G.

Title - Remote Sensing of Ionospheric Effects Associated with Lightning Using Very Low Frequency Radio Signals
Advisor - U. S. Inan
Date - Jan 1990

Sa', Luiz A. D.

Title - Spectral Structure and Generation Mechanism of Ducted VLF Whistler Mode Sideband Waves
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1989

Ngo, Hoc D.

Title - Electrostatic Waves Stimulated by VLF Whistler Mode Waves Scattering from Magnetic-field-aligned Plasma Density Irregularities
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1989

Paschal, Evans W.

Title - Phase Measurements of Very Low Frequency Signals from the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Jan 1988

Gail, William Baugh

Title - Gyroresonant Wave-Particle Interactions in a Dynamic Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - June 1987

Carlson, Curtis R.

Title - Simulation and Modeling of Whistler Mode Wave Growth through Cyclotron Resonance with Energetic Electrons in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - June 1987

Sonwalkar Vikas S.

Title - New Signal Analysis Techniques and Their Applications in Space Physics
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - June 1986

Fortnam, Bruce R.

Title - An Automatic System for Global Monitoring of ELF and VLF Radio Noise Phenomena
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - June 1985

Chang, Hung-chun

Title - Cyclotron Resonant Scattering of Energetic Electrons by Electromagnetic Waves in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Sep 1983

Tkalcevic, Slobodan

Title - Nonlinear Longitudinal Resonance Interaction of Energetic Charged Particles and VLF Waves in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1982

Doolittle, J. H.

Title - Modification of the Ionosphere by VLF Wave-Induced Electron Precipitation
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Jan 1982

Chang, Donald C. D.

Title - VLF Wave-Wave Interaction Experiments in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1978

Dingle, Bruce Kenneth

Title - Burst Precipitation of Energetic Electrons from the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1977

Seely, Nathan T. III

Title - Whistler Propagation in a Distorted Quiet-time Model Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Aug 1977

Inan, Umran S.

Title - Non-linear Gyroresonant Interactions of Energetic Particles and Coherent VLF Waves in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Aug 1977

Raghuram, Rajagopalan

Title - Supperssion Effects Associated with VLF Transmitter Signals Injected into the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Mar 1977

Leavitt, Mark K.

Title - A Frequency-Tracking Direction Finder for Whistlers and Other Very Low Frequency Signals
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1975

Crystal, Thomas L.

Title - Nonlinear Currents Stimulated by Monochromatic Whistler-Mode (WM) Waves in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1975

Stiles, Gardiner S.

Title - Digital Spectra of Artificially Stimulated VLF Emissions
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1974

Ho, Diem

Title - Quasi-Periodic (QP) VLF Emissions in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1974

Dejnakarintra, Mongkol

Title - A Theoretical Study of Electrical Coupling Between the Troposphere, Ionosphere, and Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1974

Siren, Jan C.

Title - Fast Hisslers: A Form of Magnetospheric Radio Emissions
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Aug 1974

Burtis, William J.

Title - Magnetospheric Chorus
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Aug 1974

Dunckel, Nicholas

Title - Low-Frequency Radio Emissions from the Earth and Sun
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1974

Bernard, L. C.

Title - Amplitude Variations of Whistler-mode Signals Caused by their Interaction with Energetic Electrons of the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1973

Dantas, Nelson H.

Title - OGO-4 Satellite Observations of Whistler-mode Propagation Effects Associated with Caustics in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Oct 1972

Cousins, Michael D.

Title - Direction Finding on Whistlers and Related VLF Signals
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1972

Muzzio, Jose Luiz

Title - ELF Propagation in the Plasmasphere Based on Satellite Observations of Discrete and Continuous Forms
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - 1972

Park, C. G.

Title - A Whistler Study of the Interchange of Ionization Between the Ionosphere and the Protonosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Aug 1970

Wang, T. N. C.

Title - VLF Input Impedance Characteristics of an Electric Antenna in a Magnetoplasma
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1970

Walter, Fernando

Title - Nonducted VLF Propagation in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Oct 1969

Scarabucci, Rege R.

Title - Interpretation of VLF Signals Observed on the OGO-4 Satellite
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Oct 1969

Heyborne, Robert L.

Title - Observations of Whistler-mode Signals in the OGO Satellites from VLF Ground Station Transmitters
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Nov 1966

Angerami, J. J.

Title - A Whistler Study of the Distribution of Thermal Electrons in the Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1966

Hall, Harry

Title - A New Model for Impulsive Phenomena: Application to Atmospheric-noise Communication Channels Interpretation of Impedance Probe Measurements in the Ionosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - 1966

Grard, R. J. L.

Title - Interpretation of Impedance Probe Measurements in the Ionosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Dec 1965

Guthart, Harold

Title - Whistlers in a Thermal Magnetosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Oct 1964

Brice, Neil M.

Title - Discrete VLF Emissions from the Upper Atmosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Aug 1964

Bell, T. F.

Title - Wave Particle Gyroresonance Interactions in the Earth's Outer Ionosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - May 1964

Carpenter, D. L.

Title - The Magnetosphere during Magnetic Storms; A Whistler Analysis
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Jun 1962

Crary, J. H.

Title - The Effect of the Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide on Whistlers
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Jul 1961

Smith, R. L.

Title - The Use of Nose Whistlers in the Study of the Outer Ionosphere
Advisor - R. A. Helliwell
Date - Jul 1960

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