Maria Kuznetsova
Goddard Space Flight Center, National Research Council Research Associateship Programs, Space Research Institute
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics · Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics · Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics · Magnetic confinement fusion research
0009-0003-2524-1409
About
Dr. Maria (Masha) Kuznetsova is a scientist in the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA/GSFC , and the Director of the NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC). She was a key founder of the CCMC, which is now one of the world’s leading space weather modeling and service centers, and an early champion of open science through community access to observational data, model runs, and simulation results hosted at the CCMC. For over 30 years she has been actively involved in the study of critical space weather phenomena including magnetic reconnection, mechanisms of collisionless dissipation, current-driven instabilities, particle acceleration, structure and stability of magnetospheric thin current sheets, and theory and modeling of Flux Transfer Events. Her research interests also include global modeling of magnetospheric dynamics and implementation of kinetic effects in magnetohydrodynamic models. She is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications, most recently of 6 papers submitted to the Space Weather Roadmap Special Issue in Advances in Space Research
Employment
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Goddard Space Flight Center Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Director2004 - Present
Education
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National Research Council Research Associateship Programs1993 - 1995
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Space Research Institute Theoretical Physics, Ph. D.1981 - 1987
Projects & Funding
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Publications (74)
- Earth’s Geomagnetic Environment—Progress and Gaps in Understanding, Prediction, and Impacts Save
- Assessing Thermospheric Neutral Density Models Using GEODYN's Precision Orbit Determination Save
- Unifying the Validation of Ambient Solar Wind Models Save
- Unifying the validation of ambient solar wind models Save
- How does the magnetosphere go to sleep? Save
- A Model of an Integrated Research and Education Program in Space Weather at a Community College Save
- Latitudinal Dependence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Beta Dependence of Vortex-Induced High-Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection Save
- Initial Results From the GEM Challenge on the Spacecraft Surface Charging Environment Save
- Quantifying the Storm Time Thermospheric Neutral Density Variations Using Model and Observations Save
- Relation between joule heating and thermospheric neutral density during geomagnetic storms Save
- Space Radiation and Plasma Effects on Satellites and Aviation: Quantities and Metrics for Tracking Performance of Space Weather Environment Models Save
- Assessment of Current Capabilities in Modeling the Ionospheric Climatology for Space Weather Applications: foF2 and hmF2 Save
- International Collaboration Within the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Framework for International Space Weather Services (2018–2030) Save
- Real-Time SWMF at CCMC: Assessing the Dst Output From Continuous Operational Simulations Save
- Reply to Comments by Tsurutani et al. on “Modeling Extreme ‘Carrington-Type’ Space Weather Events Using Three-Dimensional Global MHD Simulations” Save
- Validation of Ionospheric Specifications During Geomagnetic Storms: TEC and foF2 During the 2013 March Storm Event Save
- CCMC Modeling of Magnetic Reconnection in Electron Diffusion Region Events Save
- CEDAR-GEM Challenge for Systematic Assessment of Ionosphere/Thermosphere Models in Predicting TEC During the 2006 December Storm Event Save
- Impact of solar activity on the ionosphere/thermosphere during geomagnetic quiet time for CTIPe and TIE-GCM Save
- On the origin of plasma sheet reconfiguration during the substorm growth phase Save