Frances Bagenal

Frances Bagenal
Born	November 4, 1954 Dorchester, Dorset, England
Fields	Planetary Science
Institutions	NASA
Alma mater	Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Work on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist

Frances Bagenal is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.

Career

Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.^[1] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.^[2] Dr. Bagenal chairs NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer solar system.^[3] Her career research endeavors have earned 4412 citations and she has an h-index of 38.^[4]

Selected publications

• Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
• Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.

References

1. Frances Bagenal’s Curriculum Vitae
2. Fran Bagenal's NASA profile
3. Fran Bagenal’s Bio on Café Sci
4. "Fran Bagenal". Google Scholar profiles. Retrieved 2014-02-10.

External links

• NASA Interview with Fran Bagenal about New Horizons
• Astrobiology Magazine, October 17, 2013, “From Plasma Science to Dwarf Planets: Fran Bagenal”