The State of Michigan and Governor Whitmer have proclaimed that January 9, 2024 shall be known as Michigan Wolverine Day. 〽️

Congratulations to our new PhD from U-M Climate and Space! We are so proud of what you have accomplished, and we're excited to see what you do next. Congratulations, Dr. Alex Hoffmann! Learn more: linktr.ee/umclasp #UMClimateSpace

🧭 Magnetometers are essential instruments in space physics, but measurements are often contaminated by external interference sources. 💾 Introducing MAGPRIME! An open‐source Python library featuring state‐of‐the‐art interference removal algorithms. 👉agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.102…

A new paper led by Dr. Alex Hoffmann has been featured in an AGU's Eos Editor's Highlight: "MAGPRIME: An Open-Source Library for Benchmarking and Developing Interference Removal Algorithms for Spaceborne Magnetometers." Read more: eos.org/editor-highlig… #UMClimateSpace University of Michigan

Just presented some new magnetometer analysis results for the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter spacecraft! This data will help us to map remnant lunar magnetic fields on the surface of the moon and study the interaction between the moon and solar wind.

Newest paper just dropped at Geoscientific Instrumentation! We present a physically-synthesized dataset that can help to validate the performance of magnetic interference mitigation algorithms for spaceflight magnetometers. doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-…

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

Happy New Year from the TRACERS Science Team! At their 7th team meeting on Dec. 14 at NASA HQ in Washington DC, mission experts shared updates to advance our understanding of Earth’s magnetic environment and space weather. #TRACERSMission

Made a spooky plot today. The Viridis colormap never lets me down.

Another pretty plot that has been my headache for the past 3 weeks. It turns out that filter bank design is not trivial! These vertical stripes are spectral leakage between wavelet channels.

This heatmap shows the inner product of each wavelet in a filterbank. Off-diagonal values well below 0 ensures orthagonality between wavelets and reconstructability.

My first time seeing aurora in person!! We're waiting for a flickering aurora before launching.

Beautiful launch tonight from Poker Flat. It was amazing to see the landscape light up from the launch.

chatGPT told me my code was garbage today. It was right :(

FFT-based Random Singular Value Decomposition is wild. I just decomposed a 30 GB matrix in 4 seconds with floating point error in the reconstruction. Kind of shocked it's not the standard in Numpy / Scipy.

Trying to figure out how to do Singular Spectrum Analysis on spherical data. This plot is troublesome but it looks pretty!

I'm excited to watch the TRACERS launch today! With all of the mission cancellations, TRACERS is a breath of fresh air. Ad Astra! 🍻 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Watch the waves from yesterday’s M8.8 megathrust earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula roll across seismic stations in North America. Just amazing.

Today's pretty plot: 2d FFT of the Gramian matrix ... of a hankel block hankel trajectory matrix.... of magnetic anomalies on a sphere. Completely unusable data but I like it!

Heatmap of the covariance of spherical harmonics coefficients over windowing + rotation. I'm now tempted to learn quilting!