Andrew Gerrard
Professor and Department Chair, Physics
Director of the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
101 Tiernan Hall (TIER)
Education
Ph.D. ; Pennsylvania State University ; ; 2002

M.S. ; Pennsylvania State University ; ; 1999

B.A. ; State University of New York at Geneseo ; ; 1996

2025 Fall Courses
PHYS 490 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

PHYS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

PHYS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

PHYS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

PHYS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

PHYS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

PHYS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

PHYS 122 - ELECTRICITY & MAGNTSM ECE APPL

PHYS 690 - DIRECTED STUDY APPL PHYS

PHYS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

PHYS 311 - WORK EXPERIENCE I

PHYS 491 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

Past Courses
PHYS 105: PHYSICS A

PHYS 106A: PHYSICS B LABORATORY

PHYS 111A: PHYSICS I LAB

PHYS 114: INTRO TO DATA REDUCTION W/APPL

PHYS 114: INTRO TO DATA REDUCTION W/APPLI

PHYS 114: INTRODUCTION TO DATA REDUCTION WITH APPLICATIONS

PHYS 121: PHYSICS II - HONORS

PHYS 122: ELECTRICITY & MAGNTSM ECE APPL

PHYS 202: INTRO ASTRONOMY COSMOLGY

PHYS 202: INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

PHYS 203: EARTH IN SPACE

PHYS 203: THE EARTH IN SPACE

PHYS 432: ELECTROMAGNETISM I

PHYS 442: INTROD TO QUANTUM MECH

PHYS 444: PLASMA DYNAMICS

PHYS 780: CURR TOPICS APPLIED PHYS

PHYS 780: ST:

PHYS 780: ST: MAGNETOSPERIC AND IONOSPHERIC RESPONSE TO SOLAR OUTPUT

Journal Article
T. Motoba, Y. Ogawa, Y. Ebihara, A. Kadokura, Andrew J. Gerrard, A. Weatherwax. 2021. "Daytime Pc5 diffuse auroral pulsations and their association with outer magnetospheric ULF waves." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , vol. 126 .

Hyomin Kim, Q. Schiller, M. Engebretson, N. Noh, I. Kuzichev, Louis J Lanzerotti, Andrew J. Gerrard, K.-H. Kim, M. Lessard, H. Spence, D.-Y. Lee, J. Matzka, T. Fromm. 2021. "Observations of Particle Loss due to Injection-Associated EMIC Waves." Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics , vol. 125 .

Matthew Cooper, Andrew J. Gerrard, Louis J Lanzerotti, A. Soto-Chavez, Hyomin Kim, I. Kuzichev, Lindsay V Goodwin. 2020. "Mirror instabilities in the inner magnetosphere and their potential for localized ULF wave generation." Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics , vol. 125 .

M. J. Engebretson, K. R. Kirkevold, E. S. Steinmetz, V. A. Pilipenko, M. B. Moldwin, B. A. McCuen, C. R. Clauer, M. D. Hartinger, S. Coyle, H. Opgenoorth, A. Schillings, A. N. Willer, T. R. Edwards, D. H. Boteler, Andrew J. Gerrard, M. P. Freeman, M. C. Rose. 2020. "Interhemispheric Comparisons of Large Nighttime Magnetic Perturbation Events Relevant to GICs." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space , no. 8 .

Gelu M. Nita, Manolis Georgoulis, Irina Kitiashvili, Viacheslav Sadykov, Enrico Camporeale, Alexand er Kosovichev, Haimin Wang, Vincent Oria, Jason T. Wang, Rafal Angryk, Berkay Aydin, Azim Ahmadzadeh, Xiaoli Bai, Timothy Bastian, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Bin Chen, Alisdair Davey, Sheldon Fereira, Gregory David Fleishman, Dale E. Gary, Andrew J. Gerrard, Gregory Hellbourg, Katherine Herbert, Jack Ireland, Egor Illarionov, Natsuha Kuroda, Qin Li, Chang Liu, Yuexin Liu, Hyomin Kim, Dustin Kempton, Ruizhe Ma, Petrus Martens, Ryan McGranaghan, Edward Semones, John Stefan, Andrey Stejko, Yaireska Collado-Vega, Meiqi Wang, Yan Xu, Sijie Yu. 2020. "Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Forecasting: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations." arXiv e-prints , pp. arXiv:2006.12224.

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Chapter
Louis Lanzerotti, Andrew J. Gerrard. "Ring Current Ions Measured by the RBSPICE Instrument on the Van Allen Probes Mission." In Charles R. Chappell, Robert W. Schunk, Peter M. Banks, James L. Burch, Richard M. Thorne, eds., pp. 145-154. American Geophysical Union Books, 2016.

Andrew J. Gerrard. "Application of the Fabry-Pérot Interferometer to Thermospheric-Ionospheric Measurements." The Earth's Ionosphere, Volume 96, Second Edition: Plasma Physics & Electrodynamics, Academic Press, 2009.

Technical Report
"NSF Workshop Report: Solar-Terrestrial Research in Polar Regions: Past, Present, and Future"
University of New Hampshire, August, 2014.