Amy Keesee

Amy Keesee
Occupation	Physicist
Known for	Research on geospace and magnetotail ion heating, space weather prediction

Amy Keesee is a physicist and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Hampshire, where she is also affiliated with the Space Science Center. Her research concerns geospace phenomena, including ion heating in Earth's magnetotail, the ring current, and connections between the solar wind and ground magnetic perturbations.

Career

Keesee joined the University of New Hampshire as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, with an affiliation in the Space Science Center, in 2018. She was promoted to Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, also affiliated with the Space Science Center, in 2025.

Research

Keesee's publication record includes 124 papers with a total of 1,512 citations and an h-index of 23, according to Semantic Scholar. Her research has addressed dawn-dusk asymmetries in the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere system, neutral density and flow measurements in helicon plasmas, ion heating and temperature measurements in the magnetotail and magnetosphere, and the application of deep learning and uncertainty quantification methods to space weather prediction.

She has received five awards from the National Science Foundation totaling $1,848,372. These include "Understanding the Geospace Phenomena Connected to Localized Perturbations in Earth's Magnetic Field" ($689,430, awarded February 9, 2024, University of New Hampshire); "REU Site: Sensors in Earth and Space Science: How We Observe Our Planet" ($450,324, awarded April 10, 2023, University of New Hampshire); "Collaborative Research: GEM: Understanding Connections between Earth's Magnetotail and Ionosphere through Imaging" ($287,063, awarded March 17, 2021, University of New Hampshire); "Ion Heating in the Magnetotail: Understanding Geomagnetic Storms" ($418,555, awarded March 8, 2012, West Virginia University Research Corporation); and a NSF East Asia Summer Institutes award for US graduate students ($3,000, awarded May 24, 2004).

Selected publications

• "Dawn–dusk asymmetries in the coupled solar wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere system: a review" (2014)
• "Neutral density profiles in argon helicon plasmas" (2007)
• "A Survey of Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning for Space Weather Prediction" (2022), Géosciences
• "Flow, flow shear, and related profiles in helicon plasmas" (2007)
• "Mini-conference on helicon plasma sources" (2008)
• "Time-resolved measurements of double layer evolution in expanding plasma" (2010)
• "Effects of modeled ionospheric conductance and electron loss on self-consistent ring current simulations during the 5–7 April 2010 storm" (2015)
• "Comparison of Deep Learning Techniques to Model Connections Between Solar Wind and Ground Magnetic Perturbations" (2020), Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
• "Remote observations of ion temperatures in the quiet time magnetosphere" (2011)
• "Neutral argon density profile determination by comparison of spectroscopic measurements and a collisional-radiative model" (2006, invited)

External links

• Amy Keesee on ORCID