A team led by Southwest Research Institute used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles and magnetic fields as the magnetic field lines of Jupiter and Ganymede merged, snapped and reoriented, heating and accelerating the charged particles in the region

Dinesh Kumar wins the prestigious “Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology” award!

Caleb Gimar wins the prestigious “Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology” award!

The article is titled "H+ Pitch Angle Distributions in the Outer Magnetosphere Observed by MMS HPCA."

The 3DI instrument, led by SwRI Principal Scientist and UTSA Associate Adjoint Professor Dr. Keiichi Ogasawara, has been selected for a Phase A study for the upcoming NASA Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission. Congratulations to Dr. Ogasawara! Read more at the NASA website.

Dr. Burch has received NASA’s highest honor for nongovernment employees, its Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Dr. Livi has been selected for membership in the Explorers Club 50 Class of 2022.

Kim will be in the inaugural cohort of Local Science Partners, a new program empowering scientists to build sustainable partnerships with their policymakers.

"Today's affirmation of our Carnegie R1 classification solidifies one of our most critical waypoints on UTSA's path to become a great public research university."

Congratulations to Rhyan Sawyer (Summer 2021), Kevin Delano, Lizeth Magana and Christine Ray (Fall 2021) on their graduation!

Dr. Pete Roming has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

A new study by a recent graduate of Southwest Research Institute’s joint graduate program in physics with The University of Texas at San Antonio demonstrates the ability of the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) to determine the composition of areas on the lunar surface by measuring the reflectance of far-ultraviolet (far-UV) light.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has appointed SwRI’s Heather Elliott to a three-year term on its new Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG).

Please join SwRI in congratulating our graduate students Elizabeth Czajka, Samuel Hart and Jared Schroeder, who are the proud recipients of the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) Fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year! The Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowships have been established to encourage graduate study in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Each are being awarded a $5,000 fellowship. Fellowships are awarded on competitive basis with [...]

SwRI's Fuselier elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Samuel Hart wins the prestigious “Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology award!

Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPAs) are awarded to promote, recognize and reward undergraduate, Master’s and PhD students for quality research in the geophysical sciences.

When NASA’s Voyager spacecraft visited Saturn’s moon Enceladus, they found a body with young, reflective, icy surface features. Some parts of the surface were older and marked with craters, but the rest had clearly been resurfaced. It was clear evidence that Enceladus was geologically active. The moon is also close to Saturn’s E-ring, and scientists think Enceladus might be the source of the material in that ring, further [...]

Astronomy on Tap SATX is a monthly event where two scientists give ~15 min. presentations about exciting space-related topics while you “drink” it all in at a local bar!

Michael and Christine are being named as Graduate Student Affiliates on the Europa Clipper Mission.

Tracy Becker, Natalie Hinkel, Keiichi Ogasawara, and Todd Veach.

SwRI will hold its annual Graduate Program Tour Day virtually on October 30th from 12:30 to 3:30 pm CDT.

Michael Starkey was recently featured in a Physics Today article regarding a paper he wrote on an interplanetary shock.