{"id":1516,"date":"2012-07-26T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=1516"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:33:56","slug":"engebret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/engebret\/","title":{"rendered":"Engebretson, Mark J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since coming to Augsburg in 1976, Mark&#8217;s research grants from NASA and NSF (the National Science Foundation) have supported over 40 undergraduate research students during summers and part-time during the academic year. Many of his research students have presented the results of their research at national scientific meetings, and several have been authors or co-authors of papers in major scientific journals. Most of these students have continued their studies in graduate or professional schools, nearly all with assistantship or fellowship support.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is active in several research projects studying ionospheric and space physics from ground-based observatories at high latitudes, and cooperates in several European and NASA satellite programs. He is currently Principal Investigator for an array of 4 magnetic observatories in Arctic Canada, Principal Investigator for two arrays of magnetometers in Antarctica, one involving cooperation with the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, England), and he is a Co-Investigator in a large U.S.-Japanese project deploying multiple instruments at six sites in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>Although his current research focuses on using observations of ultra-low-frequency waves to study Earth&#8217;s space environment, his research background includes mass spectrometry, surface science, high vacuum technology, computerized data acquisition, and computer graphics. Mark is also Director of Augsburg&#8217;s Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>At Augsburg, Mark has developed courses in &#8220;Science and Ethics,&#8221; &#8220;Physics, Computers, and Society,&#8221; and &#8220;Issues in Science and Religion.&#8221; He continues to develop laboratory modules for courses at all levels using electronics and computer-based instrumentation.<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>B.A. 1968, Luther College<\/li>\n<li>M.Div. 197,2 Luther Theological Seminary<\/li>\n<li>M.S. 1975, Ph.D 1976, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Special Interests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Space Physics<\/li>\n<li>Atmospheric Physics<\/li>\n<li>Computers and Electronics<\/li>\n<li>Science and Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since coming to Augsburg in 1976, Mark&#8217;s research grants from NASA and NSF (the National Science Foundation) have supported over 40 undergraduate research students during summers and part-time during the academic year. Many of his research students have presented the results of their research at national scientific meetings, and several have been authors or co-authors &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46225,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1516","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49690,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516\/revisions\/49690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}