Frances Bagenal

Frances Bagenal
Born (1954-11-04) 4 November 1954
Dorchester, Dorset, England
Alma mater Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Work on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist
Scientific career
Fields Planetary science
Institutions NASA

Frances "Fran" Bagenal (born 1954) is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.[1]

Career

Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.[2] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[3] Bagenal chairs NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer solar system.[4] Her career research endeavors have earned 8849 citations and she has an h-index of 49.[5] She was selected to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.[6]

Honors

Selected publications

  • Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
  • Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.

References

  1. 1 2 "10020 Bagenal (1979 OQ5)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Frances Bagenal's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). colorado.edu.
  3. ↑ "Fran Bagenal's NASA profile". nasa.gov.
  4. ↑ "Fran Bagenal". cafescicolorado.org.
  5. ↑ "Fran Bagenal". Google Scholar profiles. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  6. ↑ "Fellows Winners Search". AGU – American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
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