Frances Bagenal


Frances "Fran" Bagenal is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.

Career

Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter. Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist. Bagenal chairs NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer solar system.
She was selected to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.

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