Fran Bagenal

Frances Bagenal
Bagenal in 2019
Born	(1954-11-04) 4 November 1954 (age 70) Dorchester, Dorset, England
Alma mater	Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Work on NASA planetary exploration missions as a plasma scientist
Scientific career
Fields	Planetary science
Institutions	NASA

Frances "Fran" Bagenal (born 4 November 1954) is a Professor Emerita of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.

Early life

Bagenal is from Dorchester, England, and grew up near Cambridge.^[1]

Career

Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.^[2] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.^[1] Bagenal chaired NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.^[3] She appeared in The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including the NOVA 2019 miniseries The Planets.^[4]

Honors

• Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.^[5]
• James Van Allen Lecture award of the American Geophysical Union in 2018^[6][7]
• Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 ^[8]
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021 ^[9]
• The outer main-belt asteroid 10020 Bagenal, discovered by astronomer Schelte J. Bus at Palomar Observatory in 1979, was named in her honor.^[10] The official naming citation was published on 13 April 2017 (M.P.C. 103974).^[11]

Selected publications

• Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
• Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.

References

1. "Fran Bagenal's NASA profile". nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
2. "Frances Bagenal's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). colorado.edu.
3. "Fran Bagenal". cafescicolorado.org.
4. "Fran Bagenal". IMDb. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
5. "Fellows Winners Search". AGU – American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
6. "AGU James Van Allen Lecture Past Recipients". AGU. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
7. "AGU Fall Meeting 2018 - SM24A: The 2018 Van Allen Lecture". YouTube. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
8. "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
9. "Two CU Boulder profs elected to National Academy of Sciences". University of Colorado. 5 May 2021.
10. "10020 Bagenal (1979 OQ5)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
11. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 3 June 2019.

External links

• Women in Planetary Science interview with Bagenal
• Fran Bagenal publications indexed by Google Scholar