Craig Johnston, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics and Astronomy, is set to receive funding for the 11th Coronal Loops Workshop which will be held at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, from 25th – 28th June 2024.
The Coronal Loops Workshop is an international meeting for researchers to discuss in detail the basic physical processes behind the formation, evolution, and disappearance of coronal loops in solar active regions. This is a crucial discussion because it addresses one of the fundamental questions in all of space science: how the solar corona is heated to million-degree temperatures.
Johnston will receive $15,000 from the National Science Foundation to help cover travel and accommodation expenses for students and early career post-doctoral researchers from different institutions across the United States to attend.
The workshop aims to broaden participation with this travel support, and recipients will have the unique experience of touring several of the solar telescopes (GREGOR, THEMIS) at the Teide Observatory on 24th June 2024.
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