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David Lee Hysell

Professor

Cornell University · United States
including commercial and defense-related fieldsthe world’s largest radarlocated outside Limahelping to maintain Cornell’s leadership in aeronomyspace physicsprototypingand testing new radar techniquesmodes

About

David Hysell earned his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1992. Hysell investigates ionospheric plasma physics with a focus on plasma instabilities, ionospheric irregularities, and their effects on radio wave propagation. Communication outages caused by ionospheric irregularities are a central component of the National Space Weather Program. The instabilities of interest are found in the equatorial and auroral electrojets, in the midlatitude E region ionosphere, and in equatorial and midlatitude spread F. The research is both experimental and theoretical and has a substantial computational component. An important research tool for studying the equatorial ionosphere is the Jicamarca Radio Observatory near Lima, Peru, the world’s largest radar. In the spring of 2005, Hysell became the PI for the NSF Coo

Education

  • B.S. (Electrical & Communication Engineering), Penn State University 1987
  • Ph.D. (Electrical & Communication Engineering), Cornell University 1992

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