Professor Craig Rodger
- Job title
- Beverly Professor of Physics
- Telephone
- +64 3 479 4120
- craig.rodger@otago.ac.nz
- Department
- Physics
- School
- Sciences Division
- Division
- Division of Sciences
- Campus
- Dunedin
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Expertise
Science and Technology
- Space weather - how the Sun influences the environment around Earth and couples to the atmosphere
- Space weather - how those changes in space pose a hazard to technological systems
- Space weather - specifically the impact on electrical power transmission networks
- Sun-Earth coupling, especially to the Antartic and Arctic
- Aurora, the upper atmosphere and ionosphere
- Van Allen radition belts - high energy electrons and protons trapped in the Earth's magnetic field
- Solar flare impacts on the upper atmosphere
- Long range lightning detection and high altitude lightning (e.g. red sprites)
