PTYS/LPL Faculty

Kuiper 411
Joe Giacalone
Professor
Ph.D. 1991, University of Kansas
Years with LPL: 1993 to present
Solar and Heliospheric Research, Theoretical Astrophysics, Parker Solar Probe, Astrophysics
Dr. Giacalone's core research interests include understanding the origin, acceleration, and propagation of cosmic rays, and other charged-particle species in the magnetic fields of space, and general topics in space plasma physics, and astrophysics.
He develops physics-based theoretical and computational models which are used to interpret in situ spacecraft observations. He is interested in the general properties of solar, interplanetary, and galactic magnetic fields.
Currently, he is studying the origin of large solar-energetic particle events (a.k.a. solar cosmic rays) which involves a number of diverse aspects of solar physics and space physics. He has written papers describing the propagation of solar-flare particles from the Sun to the Earth where they are observed by spacecraft such as ACE, Ulysses, Wind, etc.
He is also interested in the general topic of particle acceleration in astrophysical plasmas.
Current Grants
- Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun for NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission, Co-Investigator
- Collaborative Research: Electron Acceleration and Emissions from the Solar Flare Termination Shock, National Science Foundation, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace sciences
- NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), Co-Investigator
- Collaborative Research: Transport Processes Affecting High-Energy Solar Energetic Particles Observed at Earth, National Science Foundation, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
- "Our Heliospheric Shield" a NASA Drive Center, Co-Investigator
- Numerical Modeling of SEP Acceleration at Evolving Coronal Shocks, NASA/Goddard
- Energetics of Solar Eruptions from the Chromosphere to the Inner Heliosphere, NASA Systems Observatory Connect Program, Co-Investigator
Current Spacecraft Involvement
- Solar Orbiter, Magnetometer Instrument, Co-Investigator
- Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), Co-Investigator
- Parker Solar Probe, Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (IS☉IS) instrument, Co-Investigator
- Advanced Composition Explorer
- Voyagers 1 & 2
Former Spacecraft Involvement
- Ulysses
Current Graduate Students
Former Students
- Thomas Schad, 2013 (Ph.D. PTYS)
- Fan Guo, 2012 (Ph.D. PTYS)
- Eileen Chollet, 2008 (Ph.D. PTYS)
Complete publications list available from: NASA ADS Author search: Joe Giacalone
Refereed publications (NASA ADS): Calendar Years 2017 through June 2020
Hill, M. E., Mitchell, D. G., Allen, R. C., de Nolfo, G. A., Vourlidas, A., Brown, L. E., Jones, S. I., McComas, D. J., McNutt, R. L., Mitchell, J. G., Szalay, J. R., Wallace, S., Arge, C. N., Christian, E. R., Cohen, C. M. S., Crew, A. B., Desai, M. I., Giacalone, J., Henney, C. J., Joyce, C. J., Krimigis, S. M., Leske, R. A., Mewaldt, R. A., Nelson, K. S., Roelof, E. C., Schwadron, N. A., Wiedenbeck, M. E. Small, Low-energy, Dispersive Solar Energetic Particle Events Observed by Parker Solar Probe 2020ApJS..246...65H
Nieves-Chinchilla, T., Szabo, A., Korreck, K. E., Alzate, N., Balmaceda, L. A., Lavraud, B., Paulson, K., Narock, A. A., Wallace, S., Jian, L. K., Luhmann, J. G., Morgan, H., Higginson, A., Arge, C. N., Bale, S. D., Case, A. W., Wit, T. D. de ., Giacalone, J., Goetz, K., Harvey, P. R., Jones-Melosky, S. I., Kasper, J. C., Larson, D. E., Livi, R., McComas, D. J., MacDowall, R. J., Malaspina, D. M., Pulupa, M., Raouafi, N. E., Schwadron, N., Stevens, M. L., Whittlesey, P. L. Analysis of the Internal Structure of the Streamer Blowout Observed by the Parker Solar Probe During the First Solar Encounter 2020ApJS..246...63N
Bandyopadhyay, R., Matthaeus, W. H., Parashar, T. N., Chhiber, R., Ruffolo, D., Goldstein, M. L., Maruca, B. A., Chasapis, A., Qudsi, R., McComas, D. J., Christian, E. R., Szalay, J. R., Joyce, C. J., Giacalone, J., Schwadron, N. A., Mitchell, D. G., Hill, M. E., Wiedenbeck, M. E., McNutt, R. L., Desai, M. I., Bale, S. D., Bonnell, J. W., de Wit, T. D., Goetz, K., Harvey, P. R., MacDowall, R. J., Malaspina, D. M., Pulupa, M., Velli, M., Kasper, J. C., Korreck, K. E., Stevens, M., Case, A. W., Raouafi, N. Observations of Energetic-particle Population Enhancements along Intermittent Structures near the Sun from the Parker Solar Probe 2020ApJS..246...61B
Mitchell, D. G., Giacalone, J., Allen, R. C., Hill, M. E., McNutt, R. L., McComas, D. J., Szalay, J. R., Schwadron, N. A., Rouillard, A. P., Bale, S. B., Chaston, C. C., Pulupa, M. P., Whittlesey, P. L., Kasper, J. C., MacDowall, R. J., Christian, E. R., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Matthaeus, W. H. CME-associated Energetic Ions at 0.23 au: Consideration of the Auroral Pressure Cooker Mechanism Operating in the Low Corona as a Possible Energization Process 2020ApJS..246...59M
Desai, M. I., Mitchell, D. G., Szalay, J. R., Roelof, E. C., Giacalone, J., Hill, M. E., McComas, D. J., Christian, E. R., Schwadron, N. A., McNutt, R. L., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Joyce, C., Cohen, C. M. S., Ebert, R. W., Dayeh, M. A., Allen, R. C., Davis, A. J., Krimigis, S. M., Leske, R. A., Matthaeus, W. H., Malandraki, O., Mewaldt, R. A., Labrador, A., Stone, E. C., Bale, S. D., Pulupa, M., MacDowall, R. J., Kasper, J. C. Properties of Suprathermal-through-energetic He Ions Associated with Stream Interaction Regions Observed over the Parker Solar Probe's First Two Orbits 2020ApJS..246...56D
Wiedenbeck, M. E., Bučík, R., Mason, G. M., Ho, G. C., Leske, R. A., Cohen, C. M. S., Christian, E. R., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., Desai, M. I., Giacalone, J., Haggerty, D. K., Hill, M. E., Joyce, C. J., Labrador, A. W., Malandraki, O., Matthaeus, W. H., McComas, D. J., McNutt, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, D. G., Posner, A., Rankin, J. S., Roelof, E. C., Schwadron, N. A., Stone, E. C., Szalay, J. R., Bale, S. D., Case, A. W., Kasper, J. C., Korreck, K. E., Larson, D. E., MacDowall, R. J., Pulupa, M., Stevens, M. L. 3He-rich Solar Energetic Particle Observations at the Parker Solar Probe and near Earth 2020ApJS..246...42W
Joyce, C. J., McComas, D. J., Christian, E. R., Schwadron, N. A., Wiedenbeck, M. E., McNutt, R. L., Cohen, C. M. S., Leske, R. A., Mewaldt, R. A., Stone, E. C., Labrador, A. W., Davis, A. J., Cummings, A. C., Mitchell, D. G., Hill, M. E., Roelof, E. C., Szalay, J. R., Rankin, J. S., Desai, M. I., Giacalone, J., Matthaeus, W. H. Energetic Particle Observations from the Parker Solar Probe Using Combined Energy Spectra from the IS☉IS Instrument Suite 2020ApJS..246...41J
Leske, R. A., Christian, E. R., Cohen, C. M. S., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., Desai, M. I., Giacalone, J., Hill, M. E., Joyce, C. J., Krimigis, S. M., Labrador, A. W., Malandraki, O., Matthaeus, W. H., McComas, D. J., McNutt, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, D. G., Posner, A., Rankin, J. S., Roelof, E. C., Schwadron, N. A., Stone, E. C., Szalay, J. R., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Vourlidas, A., Bale, S. D., MacDowall, R. J., Pulupa, M., Kasper, J. C., Allen, R. C., Case, A. W., Korreck, K. E., Livi, R., Stevens, M. L., Whittlesey, P., Poduval, B. Observations of the 2019 April 4 Solar Energetic Particle Event at the Parker Solar Probe 2020ApJS..246...35L
Schwadron, N. A., Bale, S., Bonnell, J., Case, A., Christian, E. R., Cohen, C. M. S., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., Dudok de Wit, T., Wet, W. de ., Desai, M. I., Joyce, C. J., Goetz, K., Giacalone, J., Gorby, M., Harvey, P., Heber, B., Hill, M. E., Karavolos, M., Kasper, J. C., Korreck, K., Larson, D., Livi, R., Leske, R. A., Malandraki, O., MacDowall, R., Malaspina, D., Matthaeus, W. H., McComas, D. J., McNutt, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, D. G., Mays, L., Niehof, J. T., Odstrcil, D., Pulupa, M., Poduval, B., Rankin, J. S., Roelof, E. C., Stevens, M., Stone, E. C., Szalay, J. R., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Winslow, R., Whittlesey, P. Seed Population Preconditioning and Acceleration Observed by the Parker Solar Probe 2020ApJS..246...33S
Giacalone, J., Mitchell, D. G., Allen, R. C., Hill, M. E., McNutt, R. L., Szalay, J. R., Desai, M. I., Rouillard, A. P., Kouloumvakos, A., McComas, D. J., Christian, E. R., Schwadron, N. A., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Bale, S., Brown, L. E., Case, A., Chen, X., Cohen, C. M. S., Joyce, C., Kasper, J. C., Klein, K. G., Korreck, K., Larson, D. E., Livi, R., Leske, R. A., MacDowall, R. J., Matthaeus, W. H., Mewaldt, R. A., Nieves-Chinchilla, T., Pulupa, M., Roelof, E. C., Stevens, M. L., Szabo, A., Whittlesey, P. L. Solar Energetic Particles Produced by a Slow Coronal Mass Ejection at ∼0.25 au 2020ApJS..246...29G
Cohen, C. M. S., Christian, E. R., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., Desai, M. I., Giacalone, J., Hill, M. E., Joyce, C. J., Labrador, A. W., Leske, R. A., Matthaeus, W. H., McComas, D. J., McNutt, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, D. G., Rankin, J. S., Roelof, E. C., Schwadron, N. A., Stone, E. C., Szalay, J. R., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Allen, R. C., Ho, G. C., Jian, L. K., Lario, D., Odstrcil, D., Bale, S. D., Badman, S. T., Pulupa, M., MacDowall, R. J., Kasper, J. C., Case, A. W., Korreck, K. E., Larson, D. E., Livi, R., Stevens, M. L., Whittlesey, P. Energetic Particle Increases Associated with Stream Interaction Regions 2020ApJS..246...20C
Zirnstein, E. J., Giacalone, J., Kumar, R., McComas, D. J., Dayeh, M. A., Heerikhuisen, J. Turbulence in the Local Interstellar Medium and the IBEX Ribbon 2020ApJ...888...29Z
McComas, D. J., Christian, E. R., Cohen, C. M. S., Cummings, A. C., Davis, A. J., Desai, M. I., Giacalone, J., Hill, M. E., Joyce, C. J., Krimigis, S. M., Labrador, A. W., Leske, R. A., Malandraki, O., Matthaeus, W. H., McNutt, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Mitchell, D. G., Posner, A., Rankin, J. S., Roelof, E. C., Schwadron, N. A., Stone, E. C., Szalay, J. R., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Bale, S. D., Kasper, J. C., Case, A. W., Korreck, K. E., MacDowall, R. J., Pulupa, M., Stevens, M. L., Rouillard, A. P. Probing the energetic particle environment near the Sun 2019Natur.576..223M
Kong, X., Guo, F., Shen, C., Chen, B., Chen, Y., Musset, S., Glesener, L., Pongkitiwanichakul, P., Giacalone, J. The Acceleration and Confinement of Energetic Electrons by a Termination Shock in a Magnetic Trap: An Explanation for Nonthermal Loop-top Sources during Solar Flares 2019ApJ...887L..37K
Wang, X., Giacalone, J., Yan, Y., Ding, M., Li, C., Lu, H., Shan, H. Particle Acceleration at the Pileup Collision of the Twin Shock 2019ApJ...885...66W
Kong, X., Guo, F., Chen, Y., Giacalone, J. The Acceleration of Energetic Particles at Coronal Shocks and Emergence of a Double Power-law Feature in Particle Energy Spectra 2019ApJ...883...49K
de Nolfo, G. A., Bruno, A., Ryan, J. M., Dalla, S., Giacalone, J., Richardson, I. G., Christian, E. R., Stochaj, S. J., Bazilevskaya, G. A., Boezio, M., Martucci, M., Mikhailov, V. V., Munini, R. Comparing Long-duration Gamma-Ray Flares and High-energy Solar Energetic Particles 2019ApJ...879...90D
Lario, D., Berger, L., Decker, R. B., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F., Wilson, L. B., Giacalone, J., Roelof, E. C. Evolution of the Suprathermal Proton Population at Interplanetary Shocks 2019AJ....158...12L
McComas, D. J., Christian, E. R., Schwadron, N. A., Fox, N., Westlake, J., Allegrini, F., Baker, D. N., Biesecker, D., Bzowski, M., Clark, G., Cohen, C. M. S., Cohen, I., Dayeh, M. A., Decker, R., de Nolfo, G. A., Desai, M. I., Ebert, R. W., Elliott, H. A., Fahr, H., Frisch, P. C., Funsten, H. O., Fuselier, S. A., Galli, A., Galvin, A. B., Giacalone, J., Gkioulidou, M., Guo, F., Horanyi, M., Isenberg, P., Janzen, P., Kistler, L. M., Korreck, K., Kubiak, M. A., Kucharek, H., Larsen, B. A., Leske, R. A., Lugaz, N., Luhmann, J., Matthaeus, W., Mitchell, D., Moebius, E., Ogasawara, K., Reisenfeld, D. B., Richardson, J. D., Russell, C. T., Sokół, J. M., Spence, H. E., Skoug, R., Sternovsky, Z., Swaczyna, P., Szalay, J. R., Tokumaru, M., Wiedenbeck, M. E., Wurz, P., Zank, G. P., Zirnstein, E. J. Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP): A New NASA Mission 2018SSRv..214..116M
Fraschetti, F., Katsuda, S., Sato, T., Jokipii, J. R., Giacalone, J. Vortical Amplification of the Magnetic Field at an Inward Shock of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A 2018PhRvL.120y1101F
Kong, X., Guo, F., Giacalone, J., Li, H., Chen, Y. The Acceleration of High-energy Protons at Coronal Shocks: The Effect of Large-scale Streamer-like Magnetic Field Structures 2017ApJ...851...38K
Giacalone, J. The Acceleration of Charged Particles at a Spherical Shock Moving through an Irregular Magnetic Field 2017ApJ...848..123G
Wang, X., Giacalone, J., Yan, Y., Ding, M., Wang, N., Shan, H. Particle Acceleration in Two Converging Shocks 2017ApJ...842...74W
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Spring 2020 | PTYS 558-001 | MW 9:30-10:45a.m. | Kuiper 312 |
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Fall 2020 | PTYS 505A-001 | TTH 9:30-10:45a.m. | Kuiper 308 |
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Spring 2019 | PTYS/ASTR/GEOS/PHYS 503-001 | TTH 9:30-10:45a.m. | Kuiper 312 |
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Spring 2019 | PTYS/ASTR/GEOS/PHYS 403-001 | TTH 9:30-10:45a.m. | Kuiper 312 |
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Spring 2018 | PTYS 558-001 | MW 9:30 - 10:45a.m. | Kuiper 312 | Syllabus |
Fall 2018 | PTYS 505A-001 | MW 9:30-10:45a.m. | Kuiper 312 |
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