Maria Spasojevic

Journal Publications


Chevalier, M. W., W. B. Peter, U. S. Inan, T. F. Bell, and M. Spasojevic (2007), Remote sensing of ionospheric disturbances associated with energetic particle precipitation using the South Pole VLF beacon, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A11306, doi:10.1029/2007JA012425.
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Jordanova, V. K., M. Spasojevic, and M. F. Thomsen (2007), Modeling the electromagnetic ion cyclotron wave-induced formation of detached subauroral proton arcs, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A08209, doi:10.1029/2006JA012215.
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Spasojevic, M., J. Goldstein, and R. Strangeway (2007), Preface: Global Aspects of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, JASTP, 69(3), 189.
[ preface pdf, Contents of the Special Issue (served as guest editor) ]

Goldstein, J., M. Spasojevic, and S. Fuselier (2006), Global Aspects of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(21), 207.
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Spasojević, M., and U. S. Inan (2005), Ground based VLF observations near L=2.5 during the Halloween 2003 storm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L21103, doi:10.1029/2005GL024377.
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Horne, R. B., R. M. Thorne, Y. Y. Shprits, N. P. Meredith, S. A. Glauert, A. J. Smith, S. G. Kanekal, D. N. Baker, M. J. Engebretson, J. L. Posch, M. Spasojevic, U. S. Inan, J. S. Pickett and P. M. E. Decreau (2005), Wave acceleration of electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts, Nature, 432, doi:10.1038/nature03939.
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Spasojević, M., M. F. Thomsen, P. J. Chi, B. R. Sandel (2005), Afternoon subauroral proton precipitation resulting from ring current - plasmasphere interaction, Inner Magnetosphere Interactions: New Perspectives from Imaging, AGU Geophysical Monograph 159, edited by J. L. Burch, M. Schulz and H. Spence, AGU, Washington, D. C.
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Sonwalkar, V. S., D. L. Carpenter, T. F. Bell, M. Spasojević, U. S. Inan J. Li, X. Chen, A. Venkatasubramanian, J. Harikumar, R. F. Benson, W. W. L. Taylor, and B. W. Reinisch (2004), Diagnostics of magnetospheric electron density and irregularities at altitudes <5000 km using whistler and Z mode echoes from radio sounding on the IMAGE satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A11212, doi:10.1029/2004JA010471.
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Engebretson, M. J., J. L. Posch, A. J. Halford, G. A. Shelburne, A. J. Smith, M. Spasojević, U. S. Inan, and R. L. Arnoldy (2004), Latitudinal and seasonal variations of quasiperiodic and periodic VLF emissions in the outer magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A05216, doi:10.1029/2003JA010335
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Goldstein, J., B. R. Sandel, M. F. Thomsen, M. Spasojevic, and P. H. Reiff (2004), Simultaneous remote sensing and in situ observations of plasmaspheric drainage plumes, J. Geophys. Res., 109, A03202, 10.1029/2003JA010281.
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Spasojevic, M., H. U. Frey, M. F. Thomsen, S. A. Fuselier, S. P. Gary, B. R. Sandel, and U. S. Inan (2004), The link between a detached subauroral proton arc and a plasmaspheric plume, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L04803, doi:10.1029/2003GL018389.
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Sandel, B.R., J. Goldstein, D. L. Gallagher, M. Spasojevic, Extreme ultraviolet imager observations of the structure and dynamics of the plasmasphere, Space Sci. Rev., 109, 25, 2003.
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Spasojevic, M., J. Goldstein, D. L. Carpenter, U. S. Inan, B. R. Sandel, M. B. Moldwin, and B. W. Reinisch, Global response of the plasmasphere to a geomagnetic disturbance, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A9), 1340, doi:10.1029/2003JA009987, 2003.
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Goldstein, J., M. Spasojevic, P. H. Reiff, B. R. Sandel, W. T. Forrester, D. L. Gallagher, and B. W. Reinisch, Identifying the plasmapause in IMAGE EUV data using IMAGE RPI in situ steep density gradients, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A4), 1147, doi:10.1029/2002JA009475, 2003.
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Carpenter D. L., M. Spasojevic, T. F. Bell, U. S. Inan B. W. Reinisch, I. A. Galkin, R. F. Benson, J. L. Green, S. F. Fung, and S. A. Boardsen, Small-scale field-aligned plasmaspheric density structures inferred from Radio Plasma Imager on IMAGE, J. Geophys. Res., 107(A9), 1258, doi10.1029/2001JA009199, 2002.
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Salvati, M. A., U. S. Inan, T. J. Rosenberg, and A. T. Weatherwax, Solar wind control of  polar chorus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 649, 2000.
(published under maiden name, Maria Anne Salvati)
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Ph.D. Dissertation

Global Dynamics of the Earth's Plasmasphere, Oct 2003


Selected Presentations

M. Spasojevic, D. L. Carpenter, B. R. Sandel, U.S. Inan, G. K. Parks, Plasmaspheric Loss Estimates, AGU Fall Meeting 2003, San Francisco. (Outstanding Student Paper Award)

M. Spasojevic, D. L. Carpenter, U. S. Inan, R. R. Anderson, Density irregularities observed near the plasmapause by the CRRES satellite at the onset of magnetic disturbances, AGU Fall Meeting 2002, San Francisco. (Outstanding Student Paper Award)

M. Spasojevic, J. Goldstein, D. L. Carpenter, U. S. Inan, B. R. Sandel, B. W. Reinisch, R. R. Anderson, Dusk-side Outer Plasmaspheric Structure Observed in Global Images and In-situ, AGU Spring Meeting 2002, Washington D.C. (Outstanding Student Paper Award)


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