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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Thomas E. Cravens is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, contributing extensively to Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their scholarly activity encompasses specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main topics covered by Cravens' research include Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, and Space Exploration and Technology.

Frequent collaborators in Cravens' publications have included A. R. Renzaglia, O. Hamil, S. A. Ledvina, L. Andersson, and D. A. Brain. These coauthoring patterns suggest a focus on interdisciplinary work combining aspects of space science and planetary environments.

Cravens has published multiple papers in respected scientific journals. Representative recent papers include:

  • Magnetic Reconnection in the Ionosphere of Mars: The Role of Collisions (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics)
  • MAVEN SEP Observations of Scorpius X-1 X-Rays at Mars: A Midatmosphere Occultation Analysis Technique (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • The Lunar Environment Heliophysics X-ray Imager (LEXI) Mission (2024, Space Science Reviews)
  • Small Scale Magnetic Structure in the Induced Martian Ionosphere and Lower Magnetic Pile-Up Region (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics)
  • Fourier Analysis of Magnetic Fields in the Ionosphere of Mars (2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics)

The majority of Cravens' publications have appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, which accounts for nine of their papers. Other venues include Geophysical Research Letters, Space Science Reviews, and Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables.

Recognition of Cravens' contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) Mission

    Bruce M. Jakosky;R. P. Lin;J. M. Grebowsky;J. G. Luhmann

  • The process of tholin formation in Titan's upper atmosphere.

    J. H. Waite;D. T. Young;T. E. Cravens;A. J. Coates

  • Comet Hyakutake x‐ray source: Charge transfer of solar wind heavy ions

    T. E. Cravens

  • Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer Results from the First Flyby of Titan

    J. Hunter Waite;Hasso Niemann;Roger V. Yelle;Wayne T. Kasprzak

  • The plasma Environment of Mars

    AF Nagy;D Winterhalter;K Sauer;TE Cravens

  • Effects of energetic heavy ions on electromagnetic ion cyclotron wave generation in the plasmapause region

    J. U. Kozyra;T. E. Cravens;A. F. Nagy;E. G. Fontheim

  • Loss of the Martian atmosphere to space: Present-day loss rates determined from MAVEN observations and integrated loss through time

    Bruce Jakosky;David Brain;Michael Chaffin;Shannon M. Curry

  • Physics of Solar System Plasmas

    Thomas E. Cravens

  • The Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) Investigation

    J. H. Waite;W. S. Lewis;W. T. Kasprzak;V. G. Anicich

  • Electron precipitation and related aeronomy of the Jovian thermosphere and ionosphere

    J. H. Waite;T. E. Cravens;J. Kozyra;A. F. Nagy

  • A one-dimensional multispecies magnetohydrodynamic model of the dayside ionosphere of Mars

    H. Shinagawa;T. E. Cravens

  • Heliospheric X-ray Emission Associated with Charge Transfer of the Solar Wind with Interstellar Neutrals.

    Thomas E. Cravens

  • MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection

    Bruce M. Jakosky;Joseph M. Grebowsky;Janet G. Luhmann;J. Connerney

  • A pulsating auroral X-ray hot spot on Jupiter

    G. R. Gladstone;J. H. Waite;Denis Grodent;W. S. Lewis

  • Model of Titans ionosphere with detailed hydrocarbon ion chemistry

    C.N. Keller;V.G. Anicich;T.E. Cravens

  • X-ray emission from comets.

    T. E. Cravens

  • Composition of Titan's ionosphere

    T. E. Cravens;I. P. Robertson;Jr H. Waite;R. V. Yelle

  • Dust and neutral gas modeling of the inner atmospheres of comets

    T. I. Gombosi;A. F. Nagy;T. E. Cravens

  • A model of the ionosphere of Titan

    C. N. Keller;T. E. Cravens;L. Gan

  • The Martian ionosphere in light of the Viking observations

    R. H. Chen;T. E. Cravens;A. F. Nagy

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew F. Nagy
Andrew F. Nagy University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Janet G. Luhmann
Janet G. Luhmann University of California, Berkeley
J. H. Waite
J. H. Waite Southwest Research Institute
Tamas I. Gombosi
Tamas I. Gombosi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roger V. Yelle
Roger V. Yelle University of Arizona
Ralph L. McNutt
Ralph L. McNutt Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Andrew J. Coates
Andrew J. Coates University College London
Jan-Erik Wahlund
Jan-Erik Wahlund Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Bruce M. Jakosky
Bruce M. Jakosky University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen W. Bougher
Stephen W. Bougher University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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