My Research Interests

My primary research interests are in Phase Transitions in solids. My thesis work was on Martensitic Phase Transitions. Recently I have been examining Shape Memory Alloys. I am an experimentalist by training. I have performed experiments using Neutron Scattering, X-ray Scattering, Ultrasonic measurements, and Resistivity measurements as a sample's Temperature is varied.

Some Relevant Links are:

  • Shape Memory Applications Inc.
  • An excellent treatment of Martensitic transitions from an online reference created at North Carolina State University
  • A Brief History of Martensites
  • The Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University

    Professor William W. Ralph (also of NMU), Dr. Michael C. Kelley (of Cornell University) and myself have received a National Science Foundation grant to set up an All-Sky Camera on the NMU campus to study Aurora and other upper atmospheric phenomena.

    NMU All-Sky Camera page

    Some related links for this are:

  • Cornell's All-Sky Camera Page
  • The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory
  • Aurora Forcasting Page
  • Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks
  • Big Bear Solar Observatory
  • The Solar Wind Coupling and Geomagnetic Activity Group
  • Sunsor's Daily High UV Readings

    My Research Papers


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    This page last updated on July 29, 2003