2023
Professor Jaynes comments on the Artemis II crew selected to visit the Moon. https://www.radioiowa.com/2023/04/07/u-i-professor-calls-moon-mission-crew-historic/
2022
Professor Jaynes is featured in a Cedar Rapids Gazette article about a report she helped author for NASA concerning diversity in mission leadership. A link to the story can be found here: https://www.thegazette.com/higher-education/nasa-report-find-vast-diversity-leadership-gap-suggests-solutions/.
Iowa News Now does a story about the successful LAMP rocket launch: https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/university-of-iowa-nasa-successfully-launch-rocket-to-study-aurora
The Cedar Rapids Gazette writes an article about the LAMP rocket mission: https://www.thegazette.com/higher-education/university-of-iowa-scientists-hope-nasa-rocket-will-answer-aurora-questions-in-alaska/
Local Fairbanks, Alaska public radio station, KUAC interviews graduate student Riley Troyer about his involvement with the LAMP rocket mission: fm.kuac.org/2022-02-21/aurora-mission-draws-troyer-home
2021
Professor Jaynes is featured in a Daily Iowan piece. A link to the story can be found here: https://dailyiowan.com/2022/02/06/ui-professor-collaborates-with-ucla-nasa-on-radiation-belt-research/.
Iowa Now writes a story about Ph.D. candidate Riley Troyer's and Professor Jaynes' recent paper about the discovery of a new auroral phenomenon known as a Diffuse Auroral Eraser. A link to the story can be found here: https://now.uiowa.edu/2021/05/physicists-describe-new-type-aurora.
Professor Jaynes and Ph.D. candidate Riley Troyer are interviewed by Iowa Public Radio's River to River show about their Diffuse Auroral Eraser discovery. A link to the interview can be found here (starts at 30:52): https://www.iowapublicradio.org/show/river-to-river/2021-05-14/iowa-physicists-discovers-a-new-type-of-aurora.
Iowa News Now TV station runs a story about Professor Jaynes' and Ph.D. candidate Riley Troyer's Diffuse Auroral Eraser discovery. A link to the story can be found here: https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/researchers-at-ui-discover-new-type-of-aurora.
2018
Professor Jaynes is interviewed by KCRG about Explorer 1 and James Van Allen. You can find that article here.
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/60-years-later-UI-role-with-first-satellite-launch-still-helping-scientists-today-472034063.html
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/60-years-later-UI-role-with-first-satellite-launch-still-helping-scientists-today-472034063.html
Professor Jaynes was invited to give a talk in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1 by the National Academy of Sciences. A video of that talk may be found here.
CBS2/Fox28 interviews Professor Jaynes about the deorbiting of the Tiangong 2 satellite
Pulsating aurora are a subject of interest for this research group. You can find an article on pulsating aurora quoting Professor Jaynes here.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/chorus-waves-drive-the-beat-for-pulsating-northern-lights/
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/chorus-waves-drive-the-beat-for-pulsating-northern-lights/
You can listen to audio from pulsating aurora in the following video:
2016
At the 8th Annual CO-LABS Governor's Awards for High-Impact Research on October 6, 2016 the winning project in the Earth Systems and Space Sciences category was: LASP Director Dr. Daniel Baker Leads Research on Critical Space Weather Forecasting Missions from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at CU-Boulder (LASP). Prof. Jaynes was interviewed as a member of this team.
An article on "killer electrons" and their effects on Earth referencing a talk given by Professor Jaynes can be found here.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-killer-electrons-in-space-can-wreak-havoc-on-earth
https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-killer-electrons-in-space-can-wreak-havoc-on-earth