Open AccessOutstanding student paper awards
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Publication year - 1998
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eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/98eo00337
Subject(s) - helioseismology , aeronomy , observatory , meteorology , physics , space physics , library science , astronomy , computer science , quantum mechanics , atmosphere (unit) , magnetic field
The Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section presented the following outstanding student paper awards at the 1997 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California, last December. Peter M. Giles presented a paper titled “Time‐Distance Measurement of Solar Meridional Circulation and Rotation from MDI.” After receiving his B.Sc. in physics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, Peter studied for several years at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. In 1993 he was accepted into the Ph.D. program in applied physics at Stanford. He received his M.S. from Stanford in 1995. As a research assistant with the Sollar Oscillations Investigation, Peter has been using time‐distance helioseismology to measure large‐scale flows beneath the solar surface. The results presented at the Fall Meeting will form part of his doctoral thesis. He has also served as the resident observer at the Wilcox Solar Observatory.