Fran Bagenal

Frances "Fran" Bagenal (born 1954) is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.

Frances Bagenal
Bagenal in 2019
Born (1954-11-04) 4 November 1954
Alma materLancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forWork on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary science
InstitutionsNASA

Career

Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.[1] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[2] Bagenal chaired NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.[3] She appeared in The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including the NOVA 2019 miniseries The Planets.[4]

Honors

Selected publications

  • Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
  • Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.

References

  1. "Frances Bagenal's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). colorado.edu.
  2. "Fran Bagenal's NASA profile". nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. "Fran Bagenal". cafescicolorado.org.
  4. "Fran Bagenal". IMDb. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  5. "Fellows Winners Search". AGU – American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  6. "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  7. "Two CU Boulder profs elected to National Academy of Sciences". University of Colorado. 5 May 2021.
  8. "10020 Bagenal (1979 OQ5)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  9. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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