George Clark

Dr. George Clark is a research scientist studying the physics of magnetospheric and auroral plasma phenomena in the magnetospheres of the outer solar system. He specializes in the analysis and interpretations of spacecraft data from missions such as Juno, Cassini, Galileo, and many more. One of his recent and more notable discoveries is the presence of mega-volt electric potentials over Jupiter’s polar cap region — a phenomena that accelerates ions to very high-energies into Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. Dr. Clark is a member of the Juno mission and the Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument (JEDI) science teams. He is also the instrument scientist for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) Jovian Energetic Electrons (JoEE) sensor and instrument scientist for the high-energy energetic neutral atom imager onboard the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP-Ultra). He was a guest investigator on JAXA’s Hisaki mission and a part of an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team studying Jupiter’s magnetosphere. Dr. Clark has also mentored serval high school and undergraduate students as a part of APL’s summer intern program.