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(2014.8.21)Lecture on Space Weather in South Africa

Editor: | Aug 21 , 2014

Time and Place: 9:00 am, Aug. 21, 2014. A1101, JiuZhang Building, the National Space Science Center.

Lecturer:Dr Lee-Anne McKinnell,  the Space Science Directorate of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA)

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Dr McKinnell is currently the Managing Director of the Space Science Directorate of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). She is a Visiting Research Professor at Rhodes University and an extraordinary Professor at North West University (NWU) where she plays a role in supervising postgraduate student research. Her research areas of specialization are ionospheric physics and space weather and her PhD work was on the development of a neural network based ionospheric model for the bottomside electron density profile over Grahamstown, South Africa. Dr McKinnell maintains a number of international collaborations with scientists from the USA, Austria, Czech Republic and Argentina, and is a B3 rated scientist of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF). She has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals, presented at many international and local conferences, and is a reviewer for 4 international journals. In her current capacity, Dr McKinnell is responsible for the management of the space science programme under SANSA which includes the development of Space Weather in South Africa.

  

  

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