Hilary Cane

Hilary Cane is planetary scientist known for her research on solar energetic particles.

Hilary Vivien Cane
Born1949
Alma materUniversity of Tasmania
Scientific career
ThesisNon-thermal galactic background radiation (1977)

Education and career

Cane earned her Ph.D. in radio astronomy from the University of Tasmania in 1978.[1] Following her Ph.D., she joined the National Aeronautics and Space Agency's Goddard Space Flight center to work on the International Cometary Explorer.[1] For a period of years, Cane and her husband William Erickson split their time between Maryland and Bruny Island, Tasmania where Cane continued to work at the Goddard Space Flight Center.[2]

In 2014, Cane was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union "for elucidating the relative roles of flares and coronal mass ejections as sources of energetic particles from the Sun."[3]

Research

Cane's research investigated the abundance of solar energetic particles[4] and the magnetic field of the sun and coronal mass ejections, particles released from the sun that interfere with power grids.[5][6]

Selected publications
  • Richardson, I. G.; Cane, H. V. (June 2010). "Near-Earth Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections During Solar Cycle 23 (1996 – 2009): Catalog and Summary of Properties". Solar Physics. 264 (1): 189–237. doi:10.1007/s11207-010-9568-6. ISSN 0038-0938. S2CID 121847196.
  • Cane, Hilary V. (2000). "Coronal Mass Ejections and Forbush Decreases". Cosmic Rays and Earth. Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Vol. 10. pp. 55–77. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1187-6_4. ISBN 978-90-481-5615-3.
  • Cane, H. V.; Erickson, W. C.; Prestage, N. P. (2002). "Solar flares, type III radio bursts, coronal mass ejections, and energetic particles". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 107 (A10): SSH 14–1–SSH 14-19. doi:10.1029/2001JA000320. hdl:2060/20020080879. ISSN 2156-2202.
  • Rosenvinge, Tycho Von; Cane, Hilary V. (2006), "Solar Energetic Particles: An Overview", Solar Eruptions and Energetic Particles, American Geophysical Union (AGU), pp. 103–114, doi:10.1029/165gm11, ISBN 978-1-118-66620-3, retrieved 2021-07-16

Awards and honors
  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2014)[7]

Personal life

Cane started orienteering in the mid-1970s[8] and has published a walker's guide to Bruny Island.[9] Cane was married to the astronomer William C. Erickson who established the Bruny Island Radio Spectrometer before he died in 2015.[2]

References
  1. "Hilary V. Cane - Bio". science.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  2. "William C. Erickson". Physics Today. 2015-10-21. doi:10.1063/PT.5.6179.
  3. "Union Fellows | AGU". www.agu.org.
  4. Cane, H. V.; Mewaldt, R. A.; Cohen, C. M. S.; Rosenvinge, T. T. von (2006). "Role of flares and shocks in determining solar energetic particle abundances". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 111 (A6). doi:10.1029/2005JA011071. ISSN 2156-2202.
  5. "Hot debate over solar storms - ABC gippsland - Australian Broadcasting Corporation". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  6. Cane, Hilary V. (2000). "Coronal Mass Ejections and Forbush Decreases". Space Science Reviews. 93 (1/2): 55–77. doi:10.1023/A:1026532125747. S2CID 189779172.
  7. "Union Fellows | AGU". www.agu.org.
  8. "Member profile: Hilary Cane". australopers.orienteering.socialfx.net. May 21, 2013. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  9. Cane, Hilary (1998). Bruny Island: a guide for walkers (2nd ed.). Grundy's Point Press. p. 32. ISBN 0947202056.
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