Mick has carried out full-time research, both in the USA and the UK, since completing his Ph.D. in 2001. Following initial theoretical studies of the ionosphere/plasmasphere system, he spent three years running an ionospheric tomography experiment deployed in northern Norway and on the Svalbard archipeligo. His attention then turned to the effects of the solar wind on the wider magnetosphere whilst working as a post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA.
For the last eight years Mick has been involved in investigations of the Earth's plasma sheet, the ring current, and relativistic electrons in the radiation belt. Data analysis has revealed new knowledge about the magnetospheric response to solar wind drivers such as high-speed solar-wind streams (HSSs) and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Mick joined SSI as an Affiliate in 2011 and currently splits his time between Los Alamos in the southwest USA and Lancaster in the northwest of the UK.
