Dr. Ying Zou Assistant Professor, CSPAR Contact 320 Sparkman DriveCramer Research HallRoom 2038Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.961.7858ying.zou@uah.edu Biography Dr. Zou's research interests mainly focus on the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere, and their dependence on the upstream solar wind. She has been actively studying magnetic reconnection, plasma convection, auroral dynamics, and thermosphere circulation using a combination of spacecraft and ground-based radars, imagers, magnetometers, Fabry-Perot interferometers, etc. She is particularly interested in phenomena that have space weather effects. She joined the department of Space Science as an assistant professor in Fall 2019. Before that she was a Jack Eddy postdoc fellow at Center for Space Physics at Boston University. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D. in Space Physics, UCLA, 2015 B.A. in Space Physics, Peking University, 2010 Research Funding Collaborative Research: Local Time Extent of Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection and Controlling Factors, AGS 1702244, $442,595, 2020-2023 Characterizing mesoscale thermospheric F-region winds associated with quasi-steady and transient nightside auroral arcs, AGS 1664885 , $414,751, 2018-2021 Heating of Terrestrial Ionospheric Ions by Aurora Borealis, UAH New Faculty Research, $9,622.00, 2020-2021 Recent Publications Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Atz, E., Liang, H., Ma, Q., & Angelopoulos, V. (2020). Azimuthal Variation of Magnetopause Reconnection at Scales Below an Earth Radius. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(4), e2019GL086500. Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2019). Local time extent of magnetopause reconnection using space–ground coordination. Annales Geophysicae, 37(2), 215-234. Zou, Y., Nishimura, Y., Lyons, L., Conde, M., Varney, R., Angelopoulos, V., & Mende, S. (2018). Mesoscale F Region Neutral Winds Associated With Quasi-steady and Transient Nightside Auroral Forms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(9), 7968–7984. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025457 Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2018). Spreading Speed of Magnetopause Reconnection X-Lines Using Ground-Satellite Coordination. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(1), 80–89. doi:10.1002/2017GL075765 Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Atz, E., Liang, H., Ma, Q., & Angelopoulos, V. (2020). Azimuthal Variation of Magnetopause Reconnection at Scales Below an Earth Radius. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(4), e2019GL086500. Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2019). Local time extent of magnetopause reconnection using space–ground coordination. Annales Geophysicae, 37(2), 215–234. doi:10.5194/angeo-37-215-2019 Zou, Y., Nishimura, Y., Lyons, L., Conde, M., Varney, R., Angelopoulos, V., & Mende, S. (2018). Mesoscale F Region Neutral Winds Associated With Quasi-steady and Transient Nightside Auroral Forms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(9), 7968–7984. doi:10.1029/2018JA025457 Zou, Y. Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2018). Spreading Speed of Magnetopause Reconnection X-Lines Using Ground-Satellite Coordination. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(1), 80–89. doi:10.1002/2017GL075765 Dimmock, A. P., Hietala, H., & Zou, Y. (2020). Compiling magnetosheath statistical data sets under specific solar wind conditions: Lessons learnt from the dayside kinetic southward IMF GEM challenge. Earth and Space Science. 7, e2020EA001095. doi:10.1029/2020EA001095 Li, T. C., Liu, Y.-H., Hesse, M., & Zou, Y. (2020). Three-Dimensional X-line Spreading in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(2), e2019JA027094. doi:10.1029/2019JA027094