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I
have been working as a research assistant under
Dr. Glynn A. Germany, a
senior research scientist at the Center of Space Plasma
and Aeronomy Research - CSPAR, University of Alabama in Huntsville from
Aug 2001 (my resume). One of the research interests of Dr. Germany is to study the impact of
auroras on the earth's atmosphere. Auroras are glowing streaks in the sky seen at night in the far north and
south. They are popularly called northern lights (technically called "Aurora
borealis" in the northern hemisphere, and "Aurora australisis" in the
southern hemisphere).
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POLAR
is the second mission of NASA's Global Geospace Science (GGS) initiative to
study
the dynamics of the magnetosphere. With 11 instruments including the Ultra
Violet Imager (UVI) on board, POLAR is designed to measure energy input to
the Earth's polar regions. It provides global images of the aurora, as well
as particle measurements of solar wind entering the magnetosphere and
ionospheric plasma flowing out. |
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 | Redesigned the front
and back end of
http://csds.uah.edu/uvi-ost/ (funded by NASA's Applied
Information Systems Research Program - AISRP) using HTML, ASP,
VB & Java scripts, MS Access, CGI etc. |
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| Restructured and repopulated the entire database for the whole mission
(seven years and running) by designing and implementing a new data mining algorithm that extracts high quality ten minute
resolution data from the 36 second (approx.) resolution data set sent by the
NASA. |
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| Was responsible for the monthly update of the database with the data
sent by the UVI camera . |
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| Developed a software that generates the operational command files for the
UVI (Ultra violet imager) camera
onboard the POLAR space craft during its flip
motion in the fall every year. |
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| Responsible for generating and reviewing the operational command files for the UVI camera
onboard the POLAR space craft. |
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| Administer
the Windows NT and Windows XP server that hosts
http://csds.uah.edu using PWS and IIS. |
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