Sarah Gibson
High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research Focus
About Sarah
Dr. Gibson’s research centers on solar drivers of the terrestrial environment, from short-term space weather drivers such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), to long-term solar cycle variation. She has led International Space Science Institute (Switzerland) International Teams on the subjects of Prominence Cavities and Coronal Magnetism, as well as the international Whole Sun Month and Whole Heliosphere Interval coordinated observing and modeling efforts to characterize the three-dimensional, interconnected solar-heliospheric-planetary system at solar minimum. She is Project Scientist on NASA’s Polarimeter to Unite the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) which will observe the “young” solar wind.
Honors
Karen Harvey Prize, American Astronomical Society
Education
Postdoc
High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 01/2001 - 06/2021
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, 01/1999 - 12/2000
Ph.D.
astrophysics, University of Colorado Boulder, 12/1993
Master's
astrophysics, University of Colorado Boulder, 06/1993
Bachelor's
physics, Stanford University, 06/1989
