Los Alamos scientist honored by the American Geophysical Union

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 5, 2000 -- Jack Gosling of the Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is the recipient of the American Geophysical Union's John Adam Fleming Medal for 2000.

The award, which will be presented at the annual AGU meeting June 2, recognizes original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, aeronomy, space physics and related sciences. Gosling was honored for his major contributions to the present understanding of the physics of the solar wind and its interaction with the geomagnetic field.

This medal is a significant honor for me and for the Laboratory and comes as a very pleasant surprise," said Gosling. "My work has relied heavily on the contributions of many others here at Los Alamos and elsewhere, and I hope those colleagues will view this as a shared honor."

The AGU, an international scientific society with more than 35,000 members in over 115 countries, is dedicated to advancing the understanding of Earth and its environment in space and making the results available to the public. The Fleming Medal was established in 1960 in honor of John Adam Fleming and his contributions to the establishment of magnetic standards and measurements.

Gosling is a Laboratory fellow who earned a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to solar wind dynamics, his research interests include coronal mass ejections, interplanetary disturbances, collisionless shock physics, magnetic reconnection, magnetospheric physics and ion optics. As author or co-author he has published more than 350 papers in the above areas of research and is co-editor of two books.

Gosling, a fellow of the AGU, has been the principal investigator for Los Alamos plasma experiments on several space missions. He has received the National Center for Atmospheric Research Technology Achievement Award, two Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Awards, several NASA Achievement Awards and five Editor's Citations for Excellence in Refereeing in various AGU journals. He is the president-elect of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the AGU.

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