Talks, Seminars, and Colloquia

Lightning causes billions of dollars of damage from power outages and forest fires and ~100 deaths every year. In order to decrease this financial and human toll, it is important that we expand our current knowledge of lightning by examining its physical properties. At New Mexico Tech (NMT) there are several lightning research projects which share the common goals of better understanding charge location, propagation, termination, and reorganization. These projects include the Langmuir Electric Field Array (LEFA), the Lightning Mapping Array (LMA), and rocket triggered lightning. In this presentation I will describe these projects in detail and highlight the interesting results. I will also describe my own research, which utilizes data from LEFA to examine charge centroids of continuing currents in order to better comprehend the charge motion within clouds during lightning flashes.

JEFF IS A RECENT GRADUATE OF THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT AT BISHOP’S.
HIS TALK IS ABOUT HIS PhD RESEARCH.