UAF Physics Department § Journal Club

In the animal kingdom, “safety in numbers” refers to the idea that animals face less risk in large groups than as individuals. In this talk, I will use the same idea to illustrate advantages of observing global phenomena such as the radio aurora with large distributed arrays of instruments. I will give a brief overview of the history of the radio aurora research and introduce different types of the radio aurora. In addition, I will describe how a particular type of the radio aurora behaves just like animals (in some sense) and present results of one recent study using radio observations in Antarctica.


	ABSTRACT In the animal kingdom, “safety in numbers” refers to the idea that animals face less risk in large groups than as individuals. In this talk, I will use the same idea to illustrate advantages of observing global phenomena such as the radio aurora with large distributed arrays of instruments. I will give a brief overview of the history of the radio aurora research and introduce different types of the radio aurora. In addition, I will describe how a particular type of the radio aurora behaves just like animals (in some sense) and present results of one recent study using radio observations in Antarctica.

	Friday, 30 October 2015
	Globe Room, Elvey Building
	3:45 PM