Craig Allen Kletzing (3 February 1958 – 10 August 2023) was an American plasma physicist and professor at the University of Iowa, known for his work in space plasmas and laboratory plasmas. He conducted pioneering work in kinetic Alfvén waves,[1] developed instruments for various NASA missions, and taught college level physics.

Kletzing was Principal Investigator of the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS)[2] unit aboard NASA's Van Allen Probes, and Co-Investigator of the electric and magnetic Fields Suite[3] aboard NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. In 2019, NASA selected to fund Kletzing's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission proposal as part of the agency's Small Explorer Program.

References

  1. ↑ Kletzing, C. A. (June 1994). "Electron acceleration by kinetic Alfvén waves". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 99 (A6): 11095–11103. doi:10.1029/94JA00345.
  2. ↑ Kletzing, C. A.; Kurth, W. S.; Acuna, M.; MacDowall, R. J.; Torbert, R. B.; Averkamp, T.; Bodet, D.; Bounds, S. R.; Chutter, M.; Connerney, J.; Crawford, D.; Dolan, J. S.; Dvorsky, R.; Hospodarsky, G. B.; Howard, J. (1 November 2013). "The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP". Space Science Reviews. 179 (1): 127–181. doi:10.1007/s11214-013-9993-6. ISSN 1572-9672.
  3. ↑ Torbert, R. B.; Russell, C. T.; Magnes, W.; Ergun, R. E.; Lindqvist, P.-A.; LeContel, O.; Vaith, H.; Macri, J.; Myers, S.; Rau, D.; Needell, J.; King, B.; Granoff, M.; Chutter, M.; Dors, I. (1 March 2016). "The FIELDS Instrument Suite on MMS: Scientific Objectives, Measurements, and Data Products". Space Science Reviews. 199 (1): 105–135. doi:10.1007/s11214-014-0109-8. ISSN 1572-9672.
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