Amanda Stricklan
I'm a current third-year Astronomy PhD student at New Mexico State University. I have a BS in Astrophysics and MS in Physics. My research focuses on fine-scale structures in the solar atmosphere and their contribution to space weather.Link to CV
Research
New Mexico State University (Graduate Research)
My current project is to study jet-like structures, like spicules, at the boundary of coronal holes and their role in accelerating solar wind. I use data from the Swedish Solar Telescope, IRIS, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and Parker Solar Probe. I also work closely with the Dunn Solar Telescope.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Research Assistant)
After earning a masters degree I worked for a year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research assistant. My project was to use machine learning techniques and particle data from the Air Force’s GPS constellation to create a geomagnetic cutoff model. This model predicts how far highly energetic particles from the Sun can penetrate into Earth’s magnetosphere. I was also responsible for contributing to the open source Python library Spacepy.
University of Georgia (Undergraduate and Masters Research)
My thesis involved using CO as a hydrogen tracer to study condensed clumps in a diffuse molecular cloud. We used spectral analysis of these structures to explore the processes that shape these cloud boundaries.
Paleoanthropology Fieldwork
As at undergrad I also minored in paleoanthropology. In the summer of 2018 I worked on an excavation site in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya. My research project was to field test a new phytolithic (small micro-fossils) extraction process, and use phytolithic analysis to study the earliest controlled use of fire.
Publications
R. Carver, S. K. Morley, A. Stricklan (2019), GPS Constellation Energetic Particle Measurements, IEEE Aerospace 2020 Conference Proceedings, LA-UR-19-31027 [Proceedings]
Stricklan, A. (2019). Isolated Molecular Clumps at the CO-Boundary of a Diffuse Molecular Cloud [Master’s thesis, University of Georgia]. [Thesis]
In prep:
Stricklan A, Morley S, Carver M (2022), Using GPS Particle Measurements to Model Geomagnetic Cutoff (tentative). In prep for Earth and Space Science
Stricklan A, Shetye J et al (2022), Classifying oscillating jets along coronal hole boundary in the solar chromosphere (tentative). In prep for APJ
Posters and Presentations
Poster and Oral Presentation – “Investigating Dynamics of Coronal Hole Jets”, American Astronomical Society Conference (June 2021), National Astronomy Meeting (July 2021), European Solar Physics Meeting (September 2021).
Poster and Oral Presentation – “Using GPS Particle Measurements to Model Geomagnetic Cutoff”, American Meteorological Society Conference, January 2021
Poster Presentation - “GPS: A Constellation Mission Measuring Solar Energetic Protons and the Electron Radiation Belts”, American Meteorological Society Conference, January 2020
Poster Presentation - "A Phytolithic Study of Site FxJj 20 AB", Society for American Archaeology Conference, April 2019
Poster Presentation - "Isolated Molecular Clumps at the CO-Boundary of a Diffuse Molecular Cloud", American Astronomical Society Conference, January 2019
Contact
Department of Astronomy
New Mexico State University
PO Box 30001, MSC 4500
Las Cruces, NM 88001[email protected]