Projects

2007, Mars Foundation™
& The Mars Homestead Project™

• Science contributor, webmaster and web designer for the international organization, The Mars Foundation™.
• Contributor and administrating staff for the MarsPedia.org wiki (launched Fall 2007)

2002-2006, Solar Physics Group, Aberystwyth, UK

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PhD research outline

Papers and conferences:

• O'Neill, I. and X. Li, Coronal loops heated by turbulence-driven Alfven waves: A two fluid model, A&A, 435, pages 1159-1167, 2005. Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics on 08/02/05.
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• O'Neill, I. J. & X. Li, Turbulent Alfven wave-driven coronal loops, in ESA SP-575: SOHO 15 Coronal Heating, pages 426-430, 2004.
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• March 2004, UKSP Conference held in Edinburgh
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• Li, X., I. O'Neill & S. R. Habbal, Transition Region and Coronal Loops Heated by Turbulence, in ESA SP-547: SOHO 13 Waves, Oscillations and Small-Scale Transients Events in the Solar Atmosphere: Joint View from SOHO and TRACE, pages 279-283, 2004.
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Projects and presentations:

• November 2006, Invited colloquium presentation at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) - Physics and Astronomy Department
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• October 2005, Research presentation and collaboration work with Hawaii
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• July 2005, R. M. Davies Prize Poster
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• February 2005, Postgraduate Research Seminar
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• September 2004, R. M. Davies Prize Poster
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• November 2003, Postgraduate Research Seminar
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• July 2003, R. M. Davies Prize Poster (2nd place, Departmental Award)
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  View Institute of Physics September 2003 newsletter (page 364)
• May 2003, Research review
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• March 2003, Coronal loop modelling talk
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• December 2002, Literature review
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Teaching:

• December 2004 - June 2005, postgraduate tutor for a student with learning difficulties
• April 2004, postgraduate tutor for a student with learning difficulties
• Jan-May 2004, postgraduate supervisor for PH25520 - Experimental Physics
• Jan-May 2003, postgraduate demonstrator for PH15510 - Laboratory Physics

2002 Svalbard, Norway

• Svalbard presentation for student outreach. Presented bi-annually from 2003-2005.
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• Meridian Scanning Photometer Project
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• GUISDAP Analysis Of EISCAT Data
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