Rhyan Sawyer Education: B.S. Physics, Emporia State University, 2016 Research Interest: Magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause Global plasma dynamics at the earth and outer planets Fellowships and Recognitions: Texas Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow Thesis Advisor: Stephen Fuselier Candidacy: 2018

Dissertation Title: The Habitability of Ocean Worlds: A Chemical Systems PerspectiveDissertation Advisor: Hunter WaiteFellowships and Recognitions:Texas Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow, 2017- 2020Best Graduate Student Poster from UTSA College of Sciences Research Conference, 2018American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2017 Fall MeetingGraduation Date: Fall 2021Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Southwest Research InstituteCurrent Position: William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellow, U.S. CongressResearch Interest:Planetary ScienceIcy moonsAstrobiologyScience policy

Education: M.S. Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2021 B.S. Physics, Missouri Southern State University, 2016 Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Physics with emphasis on Space Physics planning to graduate in 2022. Dissertation Title: Electron Scale Magnetic Reconnection on Earth's Dayside using NASA's MMS mission - emphasis on the transport of energy and momentum from the solar wind into the magnetosphere, electric fields, and reconnection rates. Dissertation Advisor: Stephen Fuselier Research Interest: Magnetic Reconnection on the day side of Earth's Magnetopause Publications: Pritchard, K. R., Burch, J. L., Fuselier, S. A., Webster, J. M., Torbert, R. B., Argall, M. [...]

Juan Munoz Thesis Title: A Comparison of Electron Conics at Jupiter and Earth Thesis Advisor: Frederic AllegriniFellowships and Recognitions: Channel WOAI interviewed me for the total solar eclipse in 2024. Graduation Date: Summer 2024Current Position: Physics Adjunct Faculty at Texas A&M International UniversityResearch Areas: Space Plasma Physics, Jupiter's Magnetosphere, Electron Conics

Lizeth Magana Dissertation Title: Far-Ultraviolet Observations of Condensed Volatiles at the Lunar South Pole and the Pre-Perihelion Coma of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) By LRO-LAMP Dissertation Advisor:  Kurt Retherford Fellowships and Recognitions: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST), 2019-2021 Texas Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow, 2018- 2020 UTSA's 3 Minute Thesis, 3rd place, Spring 2018 Graduation Date: Fall 2021 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Current Position: Staff Scientist Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Research Areas: Lunar investigations of condensed volatiles and regolith properties Titian geomorphology

Thomas Kyoung-Ho Kim Dissertation Title: Ion Plasma Properties in Jupiter's Plasma Sheet: Juno JADE-I Observations Dissertation Advisor: Rob Ebert Fellowships and Recognitions: Best General Science Poster at the 2016 GEM Summer Workshop, Cassini Data Analysis Program (CDAP) 2020 Awardee Graduation Date: Fall 2019 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Space Science and Applications Group (ISR-1), Intelligence and Space Research Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory Current Position: Space Science and Applications Group (ISR-1), Intelligence and Space Research Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory – Staff Scientist  Research Areas:  Spectral Properties of Heliospheric ENAs Observed by Interstellar Boundary Explorer High Energy (IBEX-Hi) imager, Plasma [...]

Joon Kim Dissertation Title: Dynamics of the Low-Energy (E < 100 EV) Ions in the Earth’s Magnetosphere Dissertation Advisor: Jerry Goldstein Fellowships and Recognitions: Best Student Poster Award at 2022 GEM Workshop Graduate Date: Summer 2023 Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Boston University Research Areas: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (M-I-T) Coupling and the low-energy ions in the magnetosphere

Samuel Hart Education: Bachelors of Arts in Physics and Astronomy, Minor in Mathematics, University of Montana, 2018 Masters of Science in Physics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2022 Research Interest: Origins and Acceleration Mechanisms of Impulsive Solar Energetic Particles Seed particles that ultimately make up hazardous space weather Particle transport through interplanetary space Source of Anomalous Cosmic Rays Interstellar Probe: Humanity’s Furthest Reach Awards: Winner of the prestigious “Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology” (FINESST-20) award. Recipient of the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) Fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year! Fun [...]

Don George Current Position: Southwest Research Institute – Staff Scientist in SwRI Space Sector, Space Research Division Current Projects and Roles:• Principal Investigator (PI) of the SwRI LSO (Lunar Surface Observatory), under a SwRI PDIR (Presidential Discretion Internal Research) grant.• Instrument Scientist for the ENABLE Software Defined Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer development under a NASA DALI grant.• Laboratory Co-Manager and System Engineer, of the EPIC (Energized Plasma Instrument Calibration) Lab.• Instrument Scientist for development of the OCTEA neutral particle instrument under a NASA HTIDeS grant.Current Proposals in Development:• PI of the M-LACE (TBR) Mobile Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment to [...]

Kevin Delano Dissertation Title: Investigations of Solar Wind Transport in Earth’s Magnetosphere and Coronal Hole Boundary Layers Using Plasma Composition Dissertation Advisor: Stephen Fuselier and Co-Advisor Heather Elliott Graduation Date: Fall 2021 Post-Doctoral Fellowship:  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Research Interest and Areas: Magnetospheric Physics Heliospheric Physics Currently working on Solar Orbiter Observations