• Ivarsen, M. F.,  Huyghebaert, D. R.,  Gillies, M. D.,  St-Maurice, J.-P.,  Themens, D. R.,  Oppenheim, M., Gustavsson, B. J., Billett, D. D., Pitzel, B., Galeschuk, D., Donovan, E., Hussey, G. C. (2024).  Turbulence around auroral arcs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,  129, e2023JA032309

• Waghule, B,, Knipp, D. J., Gannon, J. L., Billett, D. D., Vines, S. K., Goldstein, J. (2024). What Drove the GICs >10 A During the 17 March 2013 Event at Mäntsälä? A Novel Framework for Distinguishing the Magnetospheric Sources. Space Weather, 10.1029/2024SW003980

• Billett, D. D., Sartipzadeh, K., Ivarsen, M. F., Iorfida, E., Doornbos, E., Kalafatoglu Eyiguler, E. C., Pandey, K., & McWilliams, K. A. (2024). The 2022 Starlink Geomagnetic Storms: Global Thermospheric Response to a High‐Latitude Ionospheric Driver. Space Weather, 22(2), e2023SW003748.

• Ivarsen, M. F., Jin, Y., Spicher, A., St‐Maurice, J. P., Park, J., & Billett, D. D. (2023). GNSS scintillations in the cusp, and the role of precipitating particle energy fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128(10), e2023JA031849.

• Chartier, A., Matsuo, T., Perry, G. W., Deng, Y., Billett, D. D., Cosgrove, R. B., Thayer, J. P., Lu, G., Verkhoglyadova, O. P. , Pfaff, R. F., Knipp, D. J., Laakso, H. E., Datta-Barua, S., and Vines, S. K. (2023). Understanding the Transfer of Electromagnetic Energy Between the Earth's Magnetosphere and Upper Atmosphere. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55(3), 055.

• Billett, D. D., McWilliams, K. A., Ponomarenko, P. V., Martin, C. J., Knudsen, D. J., & Vines, S. K. (2023). Multi‐Scale Ionospheric Poynting Fluxes Using Ground and Space‐Based Observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), e2023GL103733.

• McWilliams, K. A., Detwiller, M., Kotyk, K., Krieger, K., Rohel, R., Billett, D. D., Huyghebaert, D. and Ponomarenko, P. (2023) Borealis: An Advanced Digital Hardware and Software Design for SuperDARN Radar Systems. Radio Science, e2022RS007591.

• Huyghebaert, D., Billett, D. D., Chartier, A. T., Chau, J. L., Hussey, G. C., Hysell, D., Ivarsen, M. F., Mesquita, R. L., Villalba, E. R., Vierinen, J. and Young, M. (2022). The Future of Auroral E-region Plasma Turbulence Research. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences.

• Shi, X., Schmidt, M., Martin, C. J., Billett, D. D., Bland, E., Tholly, F. H., Frissell, N. A., Khanal, K., Coyle, S., Chakraborty, S., Detwiller, M., Kunduri, B. and McWilliams, K. A. (2022). pyDARN: A Python Software for Visualizing SuperDARN Radar Data. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences.

• Billett, D. D., McWilliams, K. A., Kerr, R. B., Makela, J. J., Chartier, A. T., Ruohoniemi, J. M., Kapali, S., Migliozzi, M. A. and Riccobono, J. (2022). Mid-latitude neutral wind responses to sub-auroral polarization streams. Annales Geophysicae (Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 571-583).

• Billett, D. D., McWilliams, K. A., Pakhotin, I. P., Burchill, J. K., Knudsen, D. J. and Martin, C. J. (2022). High‐resolution Poynting Flux Statistics from the Swarm Mission: How Much is Being Underestimated at Larger Scales?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, p.e2022JA030573.

• Billett, D. D., McWilliams, K. A., Perry, G. W., Clausen, L. B. N., Anderson, B. J. (2022). Ionospheric energy input in response to changes in solar wind driving: Statistics from the SuperDARN and AMPERE campaigns. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA030102

• Shepherd, G. G., Billett, D. D., Shepherd, M. G., McWilliams, K. A. (2021). SuperDARN, WINDII and WACCM-X neutral and ion winds observed at high latitudes during geomagnetic disturbances. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 225 (2021): 105773.

• Billett, D. D., Perry, G. W., Clausen, L. B. N., Archer, W. E., McWilliams, K. A., Haaland, S., et al. (2021). The Relationship Between Large Scale Thermospheric Density Enhancements and the Spatial Distribution of Poynting Flux. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029205 

• Billett, D. D. & McWilliams, K. A (2021). The SuperDARN’s role in ion-neutral coupling research. Polar Science

• Billett, D. D., McWilliams, K. A., & Conde, M. G. (2020). Co‐located Observations of the E and F‐region Thermosphere during a Substorm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA028165.

• Martin, C. J., Arridge, C. S., Badman, S. V., Billett, D. D., & Barratt, C. J. (2020). Modeling Non-Force-Free and Deformed Flux Ropes in Titan’s Ionosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

• Billett, D. D., Hosokawa, K., Grocott, A., Wild, J. A., Aruliah, A. L., Ogawa, Y.,, Taguchi, S. & Lester, M. (2020). Multi‐instrument observations of ion‐neutral coupling in the dayside cusp. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085590

• Billett, D. D., Wild, J. A., Grocott, A., Aruliah, A. L., Ronksley, A. M., Walach, M. T., & Lester, M. (2019). Spatially resolved neutral wind response times during high geomagnetic activity above Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 6950–6960

• Billett, D. D., Grocott, A., Wild, J. A., Walach, M. T., & Kosch, M. J. (2018). Diurnal variations in global Joule heating morphology and magnitude due to neutral winds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(3), 2398-2411.

• Case, N. A., Marple, S. R., Honary, F., Wild, J. A., Billett, D. D., & Grocott, A. (2017). AuroraWatch UK: An automated aurora alert system. Earth and Space Science, 4(12), 746-754.

Atmospheric coupling Aurora Ionospheric Physics SuperDARN

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How does the Earth's neutral atmosphere respond to the violent bombardment of charged particles from the Sun?

How do auroral processes and magnetic storms influence how coupled the atmosphere is the to the magnetosphere?

Where does all that energy go, and how could it affect us?

I mainly work with data from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), as well as other ionosphere/thermosphere sensing instruments like Fabry-Perot Interferometers, Incoheerent Scatter Radars, and all-sky imagers.

2016-2019: PhD Space Physics, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Thesis: "The great space weather washing machine: Examining the dynamics of high-latitude ionosphere-thermosphere coupling" 

2015-2016: PGCE in post-compulsory education, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

2011-2015: MPhys Astrophysics, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom