Transcript Steve Tomczyk & Scott McIntosh - National Center for Atmospheric

Steven Tomczyk
Steve Tomczyk is the Assistant Director of the High
Altitude Observatory (HAO) at NCAR). As HAO Assistant
Director, Dr. Tomczyk oversees the HAO
Instrumentation Program, where an engineering group
consisting of seven engineers and three interns
collaborates with HAO scientists to develop state-ofthe-art instruments for the observation of the Sun and
the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Scott received his bachelors degree in Astronomy from
Villanova University in 1979 and went on to graduate
study at UCLA where he received his Ph.D. in 1988
working with Roger Ulrich on using solar oscillations to
measure solar internal rotation. Immediately following
his graduate work, Scott came to NCAR where he has
worked on developing instrumentation for the
observation of waves and magnetic fields throughout
the Sun. His current research focuses on measuring
magnetic fields in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the
corona, in order to understand and eventually predict
ejections of material which influence the Earth and its
environment.
Scott has written or co-authored more than 70 papers
with over 2000 citations. He is a member of the
American Astronomical Society (AAS) and American
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Geophysical Union (AGU).
Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh is a Scientist III and Section Head in
the High Altitude Observatory of the National
Center for Atmospheric Research. He received his
Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1998 from the University of
Glasgow, Scotland.
Scott’s first work with HAO began in 1997 as a
graduate student. His primary focus of research is
chromospheric dynamics and understanding the
physical connectivity between the Sun's cool
surface and its considerably hotter corona. The
resulting mass transport to and from the corona
produces the radiation in the solar atmosphere
that is most variable over a solar cycle.
In recent times Scott has expanded this effort to
study longer periods to assess if (and why) the
underlying energetics of the star are changing.
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