SuperDARN at Virginia Tech

The SuperDARN Research Group at Virginia Tech collaborates with an international community of scientists and engineers to study the interactions of the Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere with the the space environment. The knowledge gained from this work provides insight into processes that affect systems used by humans, including communication networks, navigation systems (GPS), and electrical power grids. The data used for this study comes from the high freqency radars in the SuperDARN network. Read more...

What's New

• Aug. 27, 2009: The VT SuperDARN Group would like to welcome our new Post-Doc, Lasse B. N. Clausen from the University of Leicester, and our two new graduate students, A.J. Ribeiro and Nitya Ravindran.
• Jun. 5, 2009: Preparations are currently underway for a build of a new SuperDARN Radar at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. Construction is set to take place during late summer 2009.
• Jun. 5, 2009: Conference season! Scientists and students from the VT SuperDARN laboratory will be participating in both GEM (Geospace Environment Modeling) and CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) workshops later this month.
• Feb. 2, 2009: A new Technical Information page contains exact radar locations and other information useful to scientists. [2FEB2009]
• Jan. 29, 2009: The Educational Resources page has been updated with papers and presentations discussing HF radar science and engineering.