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APL's Patrick Newell Elected an American Geophysical Union Fellow
Posted February 14, 2012
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Patrick T. Newell
Patrick T. Newell, a space scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
The honor is given to AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence mostly through a major breakthrough or discovery in the fields of Earth and space sciences.
Newell specializes in space weather, primarily studying the aurora by using images and particle measurements from satellites. His Fellow nomination specifically lauded his 1996 discovery that sunlight suppresses strong aurora -- but his discoveries also include the first rigorous criteria for identification of the particle cusp, the first map of precipitation according to magnetospheric source region, the first composite imaging of the plasma sheet, and finding a nearly universal solar wind-magnetosphere coupling function. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has also adopted a model he developed for predicting auroral activity.
Newell received a doctorate in physics from University of California, San Diego, in 1985, the year he joined APL. He currently heads the Lab's Space Weather Science and Applications Section. The Baltimore resident has written or co-written about 230 refereed journal publications.
Newell and the class of 2012 Fellows will be honored during a ceremony at the AGU Fall Meeting this December in San Francisco. AGU is a not-for-profit, professional, scientific organization with more than 60,000 members representing over 148 countries.
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