Current Grants

• Atmospheric structure and escape on Pluto: NASA NFDAP, Principal Investigator
• The middle atmospheres of exoplanets: NASA XRP, Co-Investigator

Current Spacecraft Involvement

• Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, Co-Investigator
• Hubble Space Telescope GO programs, Co-Investigator

Former Spacecraft Involvement

• Cassini, Participating Scientist

Current PTYS Graduate Students

Student Collaborations/Advising

• Jess Vriesema
• Josh Lothringer
• Kyle Pearson
• Maria Steinrueck

Complete publications list available from: NASA ADS Author Search: Tommi Koskinen

Refereed publications (NASA ADS): Calendar Year 2016 through July 2018

Koskinen, T. T., Guerlet, S. Atmospheric structure and helium abundance on Saturn from Cassini/UVIS and CIRS observations 2018Icar..307..161K

Fossati, L., Koskinen, T., France, K., Cubillos, P. E., Haswell, C. A., Lanza, A. F., Pillitteri, I. Suppressed Far-UV Stellar Activity and Low Planetary Mass Loss in the WASP-18 System 2018AJ....155..113F

Cui, J., Yelle, R. V., Zhao, L.-L., Stone, S., Jiang, F.-Y., Cao, Y.-T., Yao, M.-J., Koskinen, T. T., Wei, Y. The Impact of Crustal Magnetic Fields on the Thermal Structure of the Martian Upper Atmosphere 2018ApJ...853L..33C

Fleming, B. T., France, K., Nell, N., Kohnert, R., Pool, K., Egan, A., Fossati, L., Koskinen, T., Vidotto, A. A., Hoadley, K., Desert, J.-M., Beasley, M., Petit, P. M. Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment: a dedicated CubeSat mission to study exoplanetary mass loss and magnetic fields 2018JATIS...4a4004F

Chadney, J. M., Koskinen, T. T., Galand, M., Unruh, Y. C., Sanz-Forcada, J.  Effect of stellar flares on the upper atmospheres of HD 189733b and HD 209458b 2017A&A...608A..75C

Lavvas, P., Koskinen, T.  Aerosol Properties of the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Giant Planets 2017ApJ...847...32L

Fossati, L., Marcelja, S. E., Staab, D., Cubillos, P. E., France, K., Haswell, C. A., Ingrassia, S., Jenkins, J. S., Koskinen, T., Lanza, A. F., Redfield, S., Youngblood, A., Pelzmann, G.  The effect of ISM absorption on stellar activity measurements and its relevance for exoplanet studies 2017A&A...601A.104F

Parke Loyd, R. O., Koskinen, T. T., France, K., Schneider, C., Redfield, S.  Ultraviolet C II and Si III Transit Spectroscopy and Modeling of the Evaporating Atmosphere of GJ436b 2017ApJ...834L..17P

Koskinen, T. T., Moses, J. I., West, R. A., Guerlet, S., Jouchoux, A.  The detection of benzene in Saturn's upper atmosphere 2016GeoRL..43.7895K

Cui, J., Cao, Y.-T., Lavvas, P. P., Koskinen, T. T.  The Variability of HCN in Titan’s Upper Atmosphere as Implied by the Cassini Ion-Neutral Mass Spectrometer Measurements 2016ApJ...826L...5C

Chadney, J. M.,et al. EUV-driven ionospheres and electron transport on extrasolar giant planets orbiting active stars 2016A&A...587A..87C

Capalbo, F. J., et al. New benzene absorption cross sections in the VUV, relevance for Titan's upper atmosphere 2016Icar..265...95C