Biography:Frances Bagenal
Frances Bagenal | |
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 Bagenal in 2019 | |
| Born | 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.
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.[1] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[2] Bagenal chaired NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.[3] She appeared in The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including the NOVA 2019 miniseries The Planets.[4]
Honors
- Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.[5]
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [6]
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021 [7]
- The outer main-belt asteroid 10020 Bagenal, discovered by astronomer Schelte J. Bus at Palomar Observatory in 1979, was named in her honor.[8] The official naming citation was published on 13 April 2017 (M.P.C. 103974).[9]
Selected publications
- Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. pp. 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. pp. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.
References
- ↑ "Frances Bagenal's Curriculum Vitae". http://lasp.colorado.edu/~bagenal/CV.pdf.
- ↑ "Fran Bagenal's NASA profile". http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/profile.cfm?Code=BagenalF. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ↑ "Fran Bagenal". http://cafescicolorado.org/Bagenal.htm.
- ↑ "Fran Bagenal". IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3293128/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0.
- ↑ "Fellows Winners Search". AGU – American Geophysical Union. https://honors.agu.org/fellows/search-winners/?name-2=bagenal&fellow_year-2=0§ionfocus_group-2=0&institution=&country=0&l=%252Ffellows%252F&fellows_directory=1&simian_search=1&fellows_directory_paged=1. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ↑ "AAS Fellows". AAS. https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/aas-fellows. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ↑ "Two CU Boulder profs elected to National Academy of Sciences". University of Colorado. 5 May 2021. https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/05/05/two-cu-boulder-profs-elected-national-academy-sciences.
- ↑ "10020 Bagenal (1979 OQ5)". Minor Planet Center. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=10020. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. https://minorplanetcenter.net//iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
External links
- NASA Interview with Fran Bagenal about New Horizons
- Astrobiology Magazine, October 17, 2013, “From Plasma Science to Dwarf Planets: Fran Bagenal”
- Women in Planetary Science interview with Bagenal
- Frances Bagenal publications indexed by Google Scholar
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