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两位联合国大学的空间科学家被提名 美国地球物理联合会(AGU)会员, a prestigious award that honors exceptional scientific contributions to Earth and space sciences.

Joseph Dwyer, professor of physics, and Antoinette ‘Toni’ Galvin, 物理学和天文学研究教授, are among the 62 international scientists who are being recognized for work that has significantly advanced research in their fields. Each year, fewer than 0.1%的AGU成员被授予终身奖学金. 高尔文是联合国大学任命的第一位研究科学家, 她和德怀尔加入了林恩·基斯特勒, director for the UNH Space Science Center, 是目前仅有的三位AGU研究员.

“Toni Galvin and Joe Dwyer are both so richly deserving of this distinct honor,” says Harlan Spence, director for the 联合国大学地球、海洋和空间研究所(EOS). “It is rare enough for even one member of EOS to become an AGU Fellow in any single year; how remarkable to have two! Both Toni and Joe have amassed amazing records of contributions to space physics, 用他们发明的仪器来衡量, the missions they have served on, 他们培养的下一代科学家, let alone the amazing scientific discoveries they have made themselves and enabled for others. I am delighted that the AGU has recognized their many accomplishments, placing them in the very highest echelons of the international space physics discipline."

Dwyer is a physicist who has spent the last 18 years doing research to better understand thunderstorms and lightning, including how lightning initiates and propagates and how thunderstorms emit powerful burst of gamma rays called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. He has made important observational and theoretical contributions to the study of X-ray emissions from lightning and the gamma-ray emissions from thunderstorms. He has also played a key role in establishing the new field of high-energy atmospheric physics. 德怀尔曾担任 大气和空间电科 在AGU内部，他目前是 Peter T. Paul Chair in the Space Sciences at UNH.

Galvin is a heliophysicist who develops instruments to study solar wind, plasma, the sun and interplanetary space. She has assisted in the development of more than 20 space instruments for 10 NASA missions throughout her career, 包括担任NASA STEREO任务的首席研究员. 她在帮助设计仪器方面起了不可或缺的作用, testing, data analysis, 飞行操作和仪器与航天器的集成. Galvin is committed to public outreach and workforce development as well, having served as the director for 新罕布什尔太空资助协会 and New Hampshire NASA EPSCoR since 2011.

Both Dwyer and Galvin note that their research has benefitted from their colleagues’ support and collaboration throughout their careers.

“I am really grateful for all the help and encouragement that I received from my family, 多年来的朋友和同事,” says Dwyer. “我也感谢联合国大学对我的大力支持, and I feel lucky to have worked with such a great bunch of students whose hard work made this research possible.”

高尔文说:“这是团队努力的结果。. “I’m not a theorist, but rather, I’m an experimentalist, 这意味着我的工作依赖于很多其他人——工程师, technical staff, computer programmers and many others — to help get our instruments out there. I feel humbled that my peers nominated me, and it’s a big honor to be recognized with this award.”

EOS是UNH最大的研究企业, 由六个以跨学科为重点的中心组成, 对地球和气候系统的高影响力研究, space science, the marine environment, 海底测绘和环境声学. 每年获得超过4300万美元的外部资金, EOS fosters an intellectual and scientific environment that advances visionary scholarship and leadership in world-class research and graduate education.