Yang Wang聽is leading a unique study harnessing satellite data to study how solar activity affects a poorly understood region of Earth鈥檚 upper atmosphere.
Wang, a visiting faculty member in the Ann and H. J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences working in the Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center (SWx TREC) and a 2021 graduate of CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 aerospace PhD program, has earned a $699,018, four-year聽
鈥淚鈥檓 going to be studying the responses of the Earth鈥檚 ionosphere to solar activities, particularly in the polar regions,鈥� Wang said. 鈥淭hey are very complicated, coupled processes and are not very well modeled or understood.鈥�
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