Thomas E. Cravens, Professor

3093 Malott Hall
TEL: (785) 864-4739
FAX: (785) 864-5262
Email: cravens@ku.edu
HomePage:http://www2.ku.edu/~kuspace/tec.html

Professional Background:

1991-present, Professor: University of Kansas
1988-1991 Associate Professor: University of Kansas

Education:

1975: Ph.D. Astronomy, Harvard University
1970, B.S. Physics, Summa Cum Laude, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Honors Awards:

2003 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, American Geophysical Union
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2001
2000 Department of Physics & Astronomy Undergraduate Teaching Award
Member, Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society)
Member, American Geophysical Union
Member, American Physical Society
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Academy of Astronautics 

Research Interests:

My research has emphasized how solar radiation and the solar wind interact with planets and other objects in our solar system, such as comets. I am particularly interested in sources of X-ray emission throughout the solar system. The Space Physics group at KU has also recently undertaken a number of studies of the upper atmosphere of Titan and its interaction with Saturn's magnetosphere. I am a member of the science team for the Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) experiment onboard the Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn. 

Selected Publication:

1. I. P. Robertson and T. E. Cravens, X-ray emission from the terrestrial magnetosheath, Geophysical Research Letters 30 (8), 1439, 10.1029/2002GL016740 (2003)

2. T. E. Cravens, J. H. Waite, T. I. Gombosi, N. Lugaz, G. R. Gladstone, B. H Mauk, and R. J. MacDowall, Implications of Jovian x-ray emission for magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (A12), 1465, 10.1029/2003JA010050 (2003)

3. T. E. Cravens, X-ray emission from comets, Science 296, 1042 (2002)

4. T. E. Cravens, A. Hoppe, S. A. Ledvina, and S. McKenna-Lawlor, J., Pick-up ions near Mars associated with escaping oxygen atoms, Geophysical Research 107, 10.1029/2001JA000125 (2002)

5. G. R. Gladstone, J. H. Waite, Jr., D. Grodent, W. S. Lewis, F. J. Crary, R. F. Elsner, M. C. Weisskopf, T. Majeed, J.-M. Jahn, A. Bhardwaj, J. T. Clarke, D. T. Young, M. K. Dougherty, S. A. Espinosa, and T. E. Cravens, A pulsating auroral x-ray hot spot on Jupiter, Nature 415, 1000 (2002)

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