H2  Waves and Turbulence in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

Thursday, January 9  13:20-16:40  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Edward Thomas, Manish Mithaiwala

13:20  H2-1  DISCRETE AURORAL ARCS GENERATED BY IONOSPHERIC FEEDBACK INSTABILITY

Nan Jia*1, Anatoly V. Streltsov2

1Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL


13:40  H2-2  HIGH-RESOLUTION GROUND-LEVEL OBSERVATIONS OF AKR-LIKE EMISSIONS

James LaBelle*, Xi Yan

Dartmouth College, Hanover NH


14:00  H2-3  A LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE DYNAMICS OF SHEAR FLOWS IN A PLASMA BOUNDARY LAYER

Ami M. DuBois*1, Edward Thomas1, William E. Amatucci2, Gurudas Ganguli2

1Physics Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC


14:20  H2-4  INVESTIGATION OF THE ELECTRON-ION HYBRID INSTABILITIY IN A COLLISIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Erik M. Tejero*1, Lon C. Enloe2, Vladimir I. Sotnikov3, Bill E. Amatucci1, Guru Ganguli1

1Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2Physics Department, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO
3Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH


14:40  H2-5  ELECTRON DENSITIES INFERRED FROM PLASMA WAVE SPECTRA OBTAINED BY THE VAN ALLEN PROBES EMFISIS WAVES INSTRUMENT

W. S. Kurth*1, S. De Pascuale1, C. A. Kletzing1, J. B. Faden1, S. Thaller2, J. R. Wygant2

1University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN


15:20  H2-6  WAVES IN WAVE-PRODUCED PLASMAS: DUCTED KINETIC ALFVN WAVES IN HELICON SOURCES

Saeid Houshmandyar*1, Earl E. Scime2

1Physics, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
2Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV


15:40  H2-7  INVESTIGATION OF TEMPERATURE GRADIENT INSTABILITY AS THE SOURCE OF MID-LATITUDE DECAMETER-SCALE QUIET-TIME IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES

Ahmed Eltrass*1, Wayne Scales1, Alireza Mahmoudian1, Sbastien de Larquier1, John Ruohoniemi1, Joseph Baker1, Ray Greenwald1, Philip Erickson2

1ECE, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2MIT Haystack Observatory, Boston


16:00  H2-8  THE FARLEY-BUNEMAN INSTABILITY IN THE SOLAR CHROMOSPHERE

Meers Oppenheim*1, Chad Madsen1, Yakov Dimant1, John Fontenla2

1Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA
2CoRA, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO


16:20  H2-9  SOLAR ACTIVITY TRIGGERING INTERSTELLAR ELECTRON PLASMA OSCILLATIONS

W. S. Kurth*1, D. A. Gurnett1, R. L. McNutt2, E. Roelof2, M. E. Hill2, D. J. McComas3,4

1University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
3Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
4University of Texas, San Antonio, TX