STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Brett Carter
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Phone:
+61399250356
Email:
brett.carter@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
Research overview
- Space Weather and its Effects on GNSS
- High latitude and Equatorial Ionosphere
- E-region and F-region Plasma Waves and GPS Scintillation
- Ionospheric Variability
- GNSS Radio Occultation Technique
- HF Radar and Radio Propagation
- Ionospheric Backscatter
Selected media experience
- ABC Catalyst, Solar Storms: A Warning from Space, Feburary 2022.
- Carter, Brett and Cairns, Iver: Forecasting space weather is hard. A new Australian satellite may help make it easier, The Conversation, October 7, 2021.
- Carter, Brett: Blasts from the past: how massive solar eruptions 'probably' detonated dozens of US sea mines, The Conversation, November 8, 2018.
- Halford, Alexa, Carter, Brett and Currie, Julie: Massive sunspots and huge solar flares mean unexpected space weather for Earth, The Conversation, September 8, 2017.
- Carter, Brett and Knipp, Delores: It's never been more important to keep an eye on space weather, The Conversation, October 3, 2016.
- Carter, Brett and Halford, Alexa: Damaging electric currents in space affect Earth's equatorial region, not just the poles, The Conversation, August 17, 2015 (also pubilshed by time.com).
- BSc (Hons), Department of Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2007
- PhD, Department of Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2011
- Kellerman, A.,Mcgranaghan, R.,Bortnik, J.,Carter, B.,Yue, J., et al, . (2022). Geomagnetically Induced Currents at Middle Latitudes: 1. Quiet-Time Variability In: Space Weather, 20, 1 - 13
- Yang, Y.,Maj, R.,He, C.,Norman, R.,Kerr, E.,Carter, B.,Gower, S. (2022). Comparison of Atmospheric Mass Density Models Using a New Data Source: COSMIC Satellite Ephemerides In: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 37, 6 - 22
- Dao, T.,Harima, K.,Carter, B.,Currie, J.,Simon, M.,Brown, R.,Rubinov, E.,Choy, S. (2022). Regional Ionospheric Corrections for High Accuracy GNSS Positioning In: Remote Sensing, 14, 1 - 18
- Carter, B.,Iles, G.,Raju, R.,Afful, A.,Maj, R.,Dao, T.,Le May, S.,Choy, S.,Hordyniec, P.,Currie, J.,Peake, I., et al., . (2022). RMIT University's practical space weather prediction laboratory In: Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 12, 1 - 20
- Currie, J.,Carter, B.,Retterer, J.,Dao,T., et al, . (2021). On the Generation of an Unseasonal EPB Over South East Asia In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, 1 - 16
- Currie, J.,Carter, B.,Dao, T.,Terkildsen, M. (2021). The Importance of Counting: A New Index to Correctly Quantify Equatorial Plasma Bubble Occurrence in COSMIC Radio Occultation Data In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, 1 - 9
- Iles, G.,Auld, M.,Moshovelis, L.,Palatsides, M.,Ng, M.,Currie, J.,Carter, B. (2021). Electromagnetic shielding for the protection of crew in the space radiation environment In: Proceedings of the19th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC 2021), Melbourne, Australia, 29/11/2021 - 01/12/2021
- Le May, S.,Carter, B.,Gehly, S.,Flegel, S.,Jah, M. (2020). Representing and querying space object registration data using graph databases In: Acta Astronautica, 173, 392 - 403
- Carter, B.,Currie, J.,Dao, T.,Yizengaw, E.,Retterer, J.,Terkildsen, M.,Groves, K.,Caton, R. (2020). On the Assessment of Daily Equatorial Plasma Bubble Occurrence Modeling and Forecasting In: Space Weather, 18, 1 - 23
- Dao, T.,Huy, M.,Carter, B.,Le, Q.,Trinh, T.,Phan, B.,Otsuka, Y. (2020). New observations of the total electron content and ionospheric scintillations over Ho Chi Minh city In: Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 320 - 333
- Advanced Cooperative Tasking and Intelligent Visualisation Environment for Space Domain Awareness (ACTIVE-SDA). Funded by: SmartSat CRC from (2022 to 2023)
- A machine learning based solution for space situational awareness and space sustainability: RP2: Advanced Satellite Systems, Sensors and Intelligence Z (PhD Candidate: Sai Krishna Reddy Vallapureddy). Funded by: SmartSat CRC - Scholarship from (2021 to 2024)
- Towards a new Australian GNSS RO atmospheric retrieval system (PhD candidate: Andong Hu). Funded by: CRC for Space Environment Management - Scholarship from (2018 to 2021)
- Monitoring of the Atmosphere over the Australian and Antarctic regions using GNSS radio occultation.. Funded by: Australian Antarctic Science Program Grant 2017 onwards from (2017 to 2020)
- NLP as a sensor of soft (human based) inputs to support SSA and Space Traffic management activities (Candidate: Samantha Le May). Funded by: CRC for Space Environment Management from (2017 to 2020)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
4 PhD Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Space Weather and its Effects on GNSS, High latitude and Equatorial Ionosphere, E-region and F-region Plasma Waves and GPS Scintillation, Ionospheric Variability, GNSS Radio Occultation Technique, HF Radar and Radio Propagation