Alexandra is a doctoral graduate student in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology at Penn State University. She works on-site at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center under the advisement of Dr. Lynn Wilson III, Dr. Carrie Anderson, and Dr. James Kasting. Her hobbies include acting out and photographing her research using an LED hula hoop and poi. You can view her science photography projects here: https://www.behance.net/alexandralbrosius.
Alexandra Leontire Brosius
(VISITING RESEARCH ASST.)
Email: | alexandra.l.brosius@nasa.gov |
Phone: | 301.286.6925 |
Org Code: | 672 |
Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 672 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
Employer: | PENN STATE UNIVERSITY |
Brief Bio
Current Projects
Foreshock plasma wave characterization using Venus Express
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Other
Quantifying “minimum” in adaptive
September 14, 2020
A talk for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Graduate Summer School. The presentation can be found here: https://gss.pppl.gov/2020/
Effect of Minimum Variance Analysis criteria on >150,000 Venus Express wave intervals
September 13, 2020
A poster presentation for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Graduate Summer School.
Effect of Minimum Variance Analysis criteria on >150,000 Venus Express wave intervals
August 14, 2020
A talk for the Virtual GEM Summer 2020 Workshop focus group on particle energization at collisionless shocks in the MMS era. The presentation can be found here: https://www.vgem2020.com/focusGroups/BSH.
Education
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Graduate Summer School 2020 participant and student presenter
MS Penn State Atmospheric Science and Meteorology 2018
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
Graduate Student Member
2018 - Present
Chi Epsilon Pi (National Meteorology Honors Society)
2019 - Present
American Astronomical Society
Graduate Student Member
2021 - Present
American Mathematical Society
Graduate Student Member
2021 - Present
Professional Service
Co-convener for an AGU Fall 2020 session on collisionless shocks
Awards
NASA Group Achievement Award for Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Airborne Earth Science Mission
NASA Group Achievement Award for KORea-US Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) Airborne Earth Science Mission