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Craig Rodger
Dr Craig Rodger
BSc Hons PhD(Otago)
Associate Professor
- Room: 415
- Phone: (03) 479 4120
- Email:
Current teaching
Research areas
- Space Physics
- Energy coupling in the Sun-Earth system
- Remote sensing of the upper atmosphere & near space
- High energy particle precipitation
- Radiation belt losses
- Intense lightning and transient luminous events (e.g., red sprites)
- Global Lightning Detection
- Joint-Principal Investigator of the AARDDVARK long-range sensing network.
- Co-chair of the IAGA/URSI VERSIM (VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of Ionospheres and Magnetospheres) working group.
- Member of the World Wide Lightning Location (WWLLN) Consortia.
- Member of the Chemical Aeronomy in the Mesosphere and Ozone in the Stratosphere (CHAMOS) science team.
Current student supervisions
PhD.
- Rory Gamble (Monitoring Electron Precipitation into the Atmosphere)
MSc.
- Bonar Carson (EMIC-wave driven Relativistic Electron Precipitation into the atmosphere)
Publications
- Rodger, C J, B R Carson, S A Cummer, R J Gamble, M A Clilverd, J-A Sauvaud, M Parrot, J C Green, and J-J Berthelier, Contrasting the efficiency of radiation belt losses caused by ducted and non-ducted whistler mode waves from ground-based transmitters, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A12208, doi:10.1029/2010JA015880, 2010.
- Dietrich, S L, C J Rodger, M A Clilverd, J Bortnik, and T Raita, Relativistic microburst storm characteristics: combined satellite and ground-based observations, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A12240, doi:10.1029/2010JA015777, 2010.
- Rodger, C J, M A Clilverd, A Seppala, N R Thomson, R J Gamble, M Parrot, J A Sauvaud and Th Ulich, Radiation belt electron precipitation due to geomagnetic storms: significance to middle atmosphere ozone chemistry, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A11320, doi:10.1029/2010JA015599, 2010.
- Clilverd, M A, C J Rodger, R J Gamble, Th Ulich, T Raita, A Seppala, J C Green, N R Thomson, J A Sauvaud, and M Parrot, Ground-based estimates of outer radiation belt energetic electron precipitation fluxes into the atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A12304, doi:10.1029/2010JA015638, 2010.
- More papers at the Space Physics website - [link]
Administrative responsibilities
- Director of the PHSI191 HSFY paper
- Summer School Liaison and Coordinator
- Member, Physics Department Research Committee
- Member, HSFY Board of Studies