David M. Rust

Senior Staff Physicist, Space Department

Telephones:  240-228-5414 (vox)  240-228-0386 (fax)
Email:  dave.rust@jhuapl.edu

Current Research Interests

• Spawning and Shedding of Magnetic Helicity by the Sun
• Causes of Coronal Mass Ejections and Flares
• Evolution of Magnetic Clouds from Coronal Mass Ejections
• Automatic Recognition and Characterization of Solar Phenomena
• Solar Filaments as Tracers of Dynamo Processes

Research Projects

• An Optical Investigation of the Origins of Solar Activity - The Flare Genesis Experiment
• The Solar Bolometric Imager
• Stereo
• A Study of Flux Ropes at the Sun and in Interplanetery Space
• A Search for Helical Magnetic Fields on the Sun

Recent Publications

Recent Presentations

Curriculum Vita

Last modified: May 4, 1999