I work for ICON in Austin, Texas. I graduated in Spring 2023 with a M.S. degree in Space Resources from the Colorado School of Mines, and received a B.S. degree in Metallurgical and Material Engineering also from the Colorado School of Mines in 2021. I had the opportunity to work with Professor Tomoko Matsuo through an REU in Solar and Space Physics in the Summer of 2018. I have been lucky enough to continue working with Processor Matsuo ever since until July 2023 as a Professional Research Assistant at at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Publications:
Svaldi, V.C., T. Matsuo, L.M. Kilcommons, B. Gallardo-Lacourt (2023), High Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics During STEVE and non-STEVE Substorm Events, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030277, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030277.
ESS Open Archive Link: https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.1002/essoar.10510750.1
Conference Presentations:
Svaldi, V. C., T. Matsuo, L. M. Kilcommons, B. Gallardo-Lacourt, and E. MacDonald (2021), High-Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics during STEVE and Non-STEVE Substorm Events (iPoster), AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual, 13-17 December. Link to iPoster: https://agu2021fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=97-A9-EB-28-EA-48-A9-60-AA-B2-74-97-13-6F-93-3B&guestview=true
Svaldi, V. C., T. Matsuo, L. M. Kilcommons, B. Gallardo-Lacourt, and E. MacDonald (2020), High-Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics during STEVE (iPoster), AGU Fall Meeting, Virtual, 1-17 December. Link to iPoster: https://agu2020fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=68-67-44-27-7D-C4-06-7F-6F-E1-92-E6-53-33-93-52
Svaldi, V.C., T. Matsuo, L.M. Kilcommons, E. MacDonald, B. Gallardo-Lacourt (2019), High-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics characterizing energy and momentum deposition during STEVE events reported by citizen scientists (Poster), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December.
Svaldi, V.C., T. Matsuo, L.M. Kilcommons, W. Evonosky (2018), Characterizing energy and momentum deposition during auroral events reported by citizen scientists (Poster), AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., 10-14 December.