Timothy Stubbs, Associate Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Heliophysics and Solar System Divisions

GSFC Code:

674.0

Mailing Address:

Heliophysics Division
Building 21, Room C216
NASA GSFC, Code 674.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 286-1524

Fax:

(301) 286-1648

Email:

timothy.j.stubbs@nasa.gov

Most Recent Publication:

Farrell, W. M., T. J. Stubbs, G. T. Delory, R. R. Vondrak, M. R. Collier, J. S. Halekas, and R. P. Lin (2008), Concerning the dissipation of electrically charged objects in the shadowed lunar polar regions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L19104, doi:10.1029/2008GL034785.

Research Interests:

Biography:

Dr. Timothy J. Stubbs is an Assistant Research Scientist at GEST whose interests are based in the fields of heliophysics and planetary science. He received both his PhD in Space Physics (2002) and MSci in Physics (1998) from Imperial College, London. His PhD work concerned various aspects of ion injection and transport in the high-latitude magnetosphere. In 2002 he joined the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics at NASA/GSFC as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate. During this time he studied global magnetospheric dynamics using space-based auroral observations, and also he developed the dynamic fountain model for lunar dust. He has been a member of the UMBC/GEST research faculty since 2005 and continues to work at NASA/GSFC on modeling the near-lunar space environment, and studies related to magnetospheric dynamics. Dr. Stubbs has served on the following committees: Lunar Airborne Dust Toxicity Advisory Group (LADTAG), NASA Advisory Council's Subpanel for Heliophysics and the Moon, NASA Engineering and Safety Center's Mechanical Systems Lunar Dust Assessment Group, and the Deputy Director's Council on Science (DDCS) at NASA/GSFC. He typically advises on various aspects of the lunar dust-plasma environment and the implications for the exploration of the Moon. Dr. Stubbs has also recently been selected to join the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Science Team as a Participating Scientist, and will be affiliated with the CRaTER instrument team.