Heliospheric Physics Laboratory

ERIC GRIMES

(PRINCIPAL SCI SW DEV)

ERIC GRIMES's Contact Card & Information.
Email: eric.grimes@nasa.gov
Org Code: 672
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 672
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: ADNET SYSTEMS INC

Positions/Employment


Principal Scientific Software Developer

ADNET Systems, Inc, Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

2023 - Present


Applications Programmer IV

UCLA, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics - Los Angeles, CA

2012 - 2023


Graduate Research Assistant (Space Physics)

Auburn University, Department of Physics - Auburn, AL

2008 - 2012


Undergraduate Research Assistant (Space Physics)

Auburn University, Department of Physics - Auburn, AL

2006 - 2008


Undergraduate Research Assistant (HWIL Simulations)

Auburn University, Department of Aerospace Engineering - Auburn, AL

May 2007 - August 2007


NASA Space Grant Internship (Spacecraft Systems Engineering)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA

June 2006 - August 2006

Education


M.S., Physics, Auburn University - Auburn, AL, 2012

B.Eng., Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University - Auburn, AL, 2008

Publications


Refereed

2022. "The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System in Python." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 9 [10.3389/fspas.2022.1020815] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "HAPI: An API Standard for Accessing Heliophysics Time Series Data." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (12): [10.1029/2021ja029534] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Long and Active Magnetopause Reconnection X‐Lines During Changing IMF Conditions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (4): [10.1029/2020ja028926] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "The ELFIN Mission." Space Science Reviews 216 (5): 103 [10.1007/s11214-020-00721-7] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System (SPEDAS)." Space Science Reviews 215 (1): 9 [10.1007/s11214-018-0576-4] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "The Transition Between Antiparallel and Component Magnetic Reconnection at Earth's Dayside Magnetopause." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 123 (12): [10.1029/2018ja026081] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "The MMS Dayside Magnetic Reconnection Locations During Phase 1 and Their Relation to the Predictions of the Maximum Magnetic Shear Model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 122 (12): [10.1002/2017ja024488] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of magnetic reconnection associated with Kelvin‐Helmholtz waves." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (11): 5606-5615 [10.1002/2016gl068783] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "The response time of the magnetopause reconnection location to changes in the solar wind: MMS case study." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (10): 4673-4682 [10.1002/2016gl068554] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Comparison of TWINS and THEMIS observations of proton pitch angle distributions in the ring current during the 29 May 2010 geomagnetic storm." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 118 (8): 4895-4905 [10.1002/jgra.50455] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Evolution of CIR storm on 22 July 2009." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 117 (A9): [10.1029/2012ja017572] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Global observations of ring current dynamics during corotating interaction region–driven geomagnetic storms in 2008." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 115 (A11): [10.1029/2010ja015409] [Journal Article/Letter]

Talks, Presentations and Posters


Other

International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Metadata Tools

November 2024

Workshop for Collaborative and Open-Source Science Data Systems II, Boulder, CO


International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Metadata Guidelines & Tools

October 2024

International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) Meeting (virtual)


Searching for (non-Solar) Data in Heliophysics

June 2024

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Summer School (virtual)


Data Analysis Enabled by the Space Physics Data Facility

June 2024

Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Workshop, San Diego, CA


International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) metadata guidelines and their use at the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)

April 2024

Workshop for Collaborative and Open-Source Science Data Systems, Boulder, CO


Computational notebooks for accessing and analyzing data at the Space Physics Data Facility

October 2023

Data, Analysis, and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) Workshop, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD


Analyzing MMS Data with PySPEDAS

June 2023

GEM Workshop, San Diego, CA


Particle Tools in The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System in Python (PySPEDAS)

2022

Fall AGU Meeting, Chicago, IL


SPEDAS / PySPEDAS

2022

Mini-GEM Workshop, Chicago, IL


PySPEDAS/PyTplot for Solar Physicists

April 2022

Predictive Science Inc, San Diego, CA


PySPEDAS Tutorial

2022

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Summer School (virtual)


PySPEDAS update

2022

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting


PySPEDAS

2022

MMS Community Science Workshop, Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FL


Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with PySPEDAS

2021


Webinar: Special MMS Plasma Webinar on FPI/HPCA Analysis using SPEDAS

April 2021


Webinar: PySPEDAS Development

March 2021


PySPEDAS tutorial

2021

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Fall Meeting


PySPEDAS updates

2021

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting


Python for IDL developers

2021

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting


PySPEDAS: Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software in Python

November 2020

International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) Meeting (virtual)


Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with IDL SPEDAS

October 2020


Introduction to PySPEDAS 1.0

August 2020

Magnetosphere Seminar Series (virtual)


Webinar: PySPEDAS 1.0 tutorial

June 2020


Webinar: MMS Data in SPEDAS

May 2020


Access to Space Science Data using PySPEDAS!

2020

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Fall Meeting (virtual)


Python for Scientific Software Developers

2020

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting (virtual)


PySPEDAS: Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software in Python

2019

Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA


Webinar: MMS Data in Python with PySPEDAS

2019


Webinar: Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS

October 2019


Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS (and PySPEDAS)

June 2019

GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM


Webinar: MMS flipbookify - adding 2D distribution slices to arbitrary tplot windows

June 2019


Webinar: MMS Data in Python with PySPEDAS

April 2019


MMS in PySPEDAS Updates

2019

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Spring Meeting


PySPEDAS

2019

MMS Community Science Workshop, Yosemite, CA


Webinar: Special MMS Plasma Webinar on FPI/HPCA Analysis using SPEDAS - Updated

December 2018


Webinar: Tplot Essentials with MMS Data

September 2018


Webinar: MMS flipbookify - adding 2D distribution slices to arbitrary tplot windows

August 2018


Webinar: Special Webinar on FIELDS Analysis with SPEDAS

March 2018


PySPEDAS, a Python Implementation of SPEDAS

2018

Fall AGU Meeting, Washington, D.C.


HAPI Updates to the Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software

2018

Fall AGU Meeting, Washington, D.C.


PySPEDAS

2018

Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) Working Group Meeting


Analyzing MMS Data with SPEDAS

2018

GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM


MMS in SPEDAS

2018

MMS Community Science Workshop, Bergen, Norway


Webinar: Special MMS plasma webinar on FPI/HPCA with SPEDAS

December 2017


Webinar: Analyzing MMS data with SPEDAS

September 2017


MMS Data with SPEDAS

2017

Mini-GEM Workshop, New Orleans, LA


Webinar: Analyzing MMS data with SPEDAS - EIS/FEEPS

November 2016


Webinar: MMS Plasma (FPI/HPCA) Webinar

October 2016


MMS plug-ins for SPEDAS: Access, analysis and visualization, in conjunction with other Heliophysics assets

2016

MMS Community Science Workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA


Using MMS Data with SPEDAS

2016

GEM Workshop, Santa Fe, NM


SPEDAS: A framework for supporting multi-mission data analysis and visualization

2014

GEM Workshop, Portsmouth, VA


THEMIS Data Analysis Software (TDAS) v9.00

2014

GEM Workshop, Portsmouth, VA


Simultaneous Global Observations of Ring Current Dynamics

2012

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Tokyo, Japan


Ring Current Pressure Profiles During Geomagnetic Storms as Observed by TWINS

2011

Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA


TWINS ENA Observations of Ring Current Dynamics During an ICME-driven Geomagnetic Storm on 6 April 2010

2010

Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA


Recent TWINS Observations of Proton Injections During Weak ICME-driven Geomagnetic Storms

2010

UAH Workshop on Partially Ionized Plasmas, Nashville, TN


Deconvolved Ring Current Ion Intensities from TWINS Stereo ENA Images of the Earth’s Magnetosphere

2009

Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA


Seeing the Plasma Sheet with ENAs

2008

Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA


ICME and CIR Geomagnetic Storms as Seen by ENA Images and Ring Current Distributions

2007

Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA


Three-Dimensional Visualization of Pitch Angle Distributions in the Magnetosphere

2007

4th Annual University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Auburn, AL


Applying Practical Systems Engineering to University Small Satellites

2007

4th Annual CubeSat Workshop, Huntington Beach, CA


AubieSat: Auburn’s First Student Built Satellite

2006

3rd Annual CubeSat Workshop, San Luis Obispo, CA


The Mars Student Climate Lander (MSCL)

2006

Alabama Space Grant Scholars and Fellows Annual Awards Banquet, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL