The Solar-Terrestrial Theory Group (STTG) at UNH was founded in 1980 as one of several research groups in the U. S. supported by NASA and devoted to studying space plasma processes in the solar system. The main research interests are theoretical plasma physics, heating and dynamics of the chromosphere and corona, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, heating and acceleration of the solar wind, interactions of the solar wind with comets and interstellar neutral gas, and acceleration and transport of energetic particles throughout the heliosphere. The Group also supports graduate students who participate in the above research activities as the basis of their doctoral or master's theses.

The Group collaborates with scientists at other institutions, including the University of Maryland, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie, the Observatory of Meudon, the Department of Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews, the Plasma Astrophysics Group at the Catholic University of Leuven, the Lockheed-Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, the Solar Physics Department at Moscow State University, and Helio-Research Corporation. A part of the program is also involved with experiments on AMPTE, WIND, ACE, Yohkoh, Solar-B and SOHO.

The group is one of only three space theory groups nationwide that have received continuous funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since the NASA program's inception in 1980. The group has recently been notified it has won another three years' funding, a total of $1,163,000. This puts the group in exclusive company. Want to know why? Find the anwser at UNH News.

The Group currently has nine members, including four faculty members, three staff members and two PhD students. Find who they are and what they are doing at Group Directory.