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Jamie Jasinski

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

Curriculum Vitae:

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Planetary Interiors and Geophysics

Biography

Jamie Jasinski is a space plasma physicist at JPL. Jamie investigates how the local space plasma environment of a planetary body affects its magnetosphere, exosphere, atmosphere and surface.

Education

  • PhD in Space Plasma Physics, UCL (2015)
  • MSci in Astrophysics, UCL (2011)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2017 – present)
    • Scientist (2020 – present)
    • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, JPL (2017 – 2020)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan (2015-2017)

Community Service

  • Frequent Reviewer for Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research and Icarus
  • Reviewer of proposals for NASA NSPIRES Solicitations.

Research Interests

  • Solar wind interaction with planetary magnetospheres.
  • Planetary magnetospheric dynamics.
  • Reconnection at the outer planet magnetospheres
  • Planetary exospheres
  • Exoplanetary plasma environments

Selected Awards

  • 2020 NASA JPL Team Award.
  • 2018 Sir Arthur Clarke Award.
  • 2018 NASA JPL Bonus Award.
  • 2018 NASA Group Achievement Award - Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Team.
  • 2017 NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship.

Selected Publications

Janches, D., et al., including J. M. Jasinski, (in press) Meteoroids as one of the sources for exosphere formation on airless bodies in the inner solar system, Space Science Reviews.

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2021) Photoionization Loss of Mercury’s Sodium Exosphere seasonal observations by MESSENGER and the THEMIS telescope, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL092980. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092980 4

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2021) Flux Transfer Events at a reconnectionsuppressed magnetopause: Cassini observations at Saturn, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 126, e2020JA028786. doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028786

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2020) A transient enhancement of Mercury’s exosphere at extremely high altitudes inferred from pickup ions, Nature Comms., doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18220-2.

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2020) The importance of local interstellar conditions on the galactic cosmic ray spectrum at Exoplanets, Ap. J. Lett., 899, L18, doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c8

Nordheim T., et al., including J. M. Jasinski, (2020), Detection of nega- tive pickup ions at Saturn’s moon Dione, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL087543, doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087543

Sun et al., including J. M. Jasinski, (2020), MESSENGER observations of Mercury’s nightside magnetosphere under extreme solar wind conditions: reconnection-generated structures and steady convection, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 125, e2019JA027490, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027490

Jasinski J. M., et al., (2019), Saturn’s open-closed field line boundary: a Cassini electron survey at Saturn’s magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027090

Nordheim T. A, J. M. Jasinski & K. Hand, (2019), Galactic cosmic ray bombardment of Europa’s surface, Ap. J. Letters, 881, L29, https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3661

Slavin et al., including J. M. Jasinski, (2019), Mercury’s magnetospheric Disappearing dayside events as observed by MESSENGER, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026892

Jasinski J. M., J. A. Slavin, J. M. Raines and G. DiBraccio (2017), Mer- cury’s solar wind interaction as characterized by magnetospheric plasma mantle observations with MESSENGER, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 122, 12153– 12169, doi:10.1002/2017JA024594

Jasinski J.M., et al., (2017), Diamagnetic depression observations at Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys.,122, 6283– 6303, doi:10.1002/2016JA023738.

Smith, A. W., et al., including J. M. Jasinski (2017), Automated force free flux rope identification, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 122, 780–791, doi:10.1002/2016JA022994

Jasinski J. M., et al., (2016) Cassini Plasma Observations of Saturn’s Magnetospheric Cusp, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 121, 12047-12067, doi:10.1002/2016JA023310.

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2016) Flux transfer event observation at Saturn’s dayside magnetopause by the Cassini spacecraft, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 6713–6723, doi:10.1002/2016GL069260.

Arridge, C. S., J. M. Jasinski, et al. (2016), Cassini observations of Saturn’s southern polar cusp, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 121, 3006–3030, doi:10.1002/2015JA021957

Dunn, W. R., et al., including J. M. Jasinski (2016), The impact of an ICME on the Jovian X-ray aurora, J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys., 121, 2274–2307, doi:10.1002/2015JA021888.

Jasinski, J. M., et al., (2014), Cusp observation at Saturn’s high latitude magnetosphere by the Cassini spacecraft, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1382–1388. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059319

Radioti, A., et al., including J. M. Jasinski (2013), Auroral signatures of multiple magnetopause reconnection at Saturn, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4498–4502, doi:10.1002/grl.50889.

Kipping, D. M., Dunn, W. R., J. M. Jasinski, and Manthri, V. P. (2012), A novel method to photometrically constrain orbital eccentricities: Multibody Asterodensity Profiling, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421: 1166–1188. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20376.x