STAFF PROFILE
Dr Brett Carter
Position:
Senior Research Fellow
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Geospatial Science
Phone:
+61 3 9925 0356
Email:
brett.carter@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne 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
Slected media experience
- 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).
- Carter, Brett: Predicting daily space weather will help keep your GPS on target, The Conversation, December 4, 2014.
- Carter, Brett and Retterer, John: Bad space weather may have caused fatal Afghan gun battle, The Conversation, September 24, 2014.
- Carter, Brett: Solar storms and their effects on us, with Chris Adams live on 4BC Brisbane radio, 27 July, 2014.
- Carter, Brett: Are you a frequent flyer? Solar storm radiation can be harmful, The Conversation, 14 July, 2014.
- Carter, Brett: Solar eruption could help Earth prepare for technology melt-down, The Conversation, 16 October, 2013.
- “The Most Accurate and Stable Thermometer in Space - FORMOSAT-3 7 Years Mission Achievements” - Participated in this press conference that was held at the National Space Organization (NSPO) by the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) and NSPO on 16 May, 2013.
- Carter, Brett: Divert power to shields - the solar maximum is coming, The Conversation, 11 December, 2012.
- BSc (Hons), Department of Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2007
- PhD, Department of Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2011
- Yizengaw, E.,Carter, B. (2017). Imaging the global vertical density structure from the ground and space In: Ionospheric Space Weather: Longitude and Hemispheric Dependences and Lower Atmosphere Forcing, John Wiley and Sons, United States
- Yizengaw, E.,Carter, B. (2017). Longitudinal, seasonal and solar cycle variation in lunar tide influence on the equatorial electrojet In: Annales Geophysicae, 35, 525 - 533
- Carter, B.,Yizengaw, E.,Pradipta, R.,Retterer, J.,Groves, K.,Valladares, C.,Caton, R.,Bridgwood, C.,Norman, R.,Zhang, K. (2016). Global equatorial plasma bubble occurrence during the 2015 St. Patrick's Day storm In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121, 894 - 905
- Pradipta, R.,Valladares, C.,Carter, B.,Doherty, P. (2016). Interhemispheric propagation and interactions of auroral traveling ionospheric disturbances near the equator In: Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics, 121, 2462 - 2474
- Carter, B.,Yizengaw, E.,Pradipta, R.,Weygand, J.,Piersanti, M.,Pulkkinen, A.,Moldwin, M.,Norman, R.,Zhang, K. (2016). Geomagnetically induced currents around the world during the 17 March 2015 storm In: Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, 121, 10496 - 10507
- Norman, R.,Le Marshall, J.,Rohm, W.,Carter, B.,Liu, C.,Zhang, K. (2015). Simulating the impact of refractive transverse gradients resulting from a severe troposphere weather event on GPS signal propagation In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8, 418 - 424
- Carter, B.,Yizengaw, E.,Pradipta, R.,Halford, A.,Norman, R.,Zhang, K. (2015). Interplanetary shocks and the resulting geomagnetically induced currents at the equator In: Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 6554 - 6559
- Norman, R.,Carter, B.,Bennett, J.,Le Marshall, J.,Hearne, J.,Zhang, K. (2015). Australian space research program project platform technologies for space atmosphere and climate: selected innovations In: Applications + Practical Conceptualization + Mathematics = fruitful Innovation (Proceedings of the Forum of Mathematics for Industry 2014), Springer, Tokyo, Japan
- Seif, A.,Zhang, K.,Tsunoda, R.,Carter, B.,Norman, R. (2015). Study of sporadic E using daytime GHz scintillation observations in the equatorial region In: Australian Space Research Conference 2015, Canberra, Australia, 29/09/2015 - 01/10/2015
- Zhang, K.,Bennett, J.,Smith, C.,Greene, B.,Sang, J.,Carter, B.,Norman, R.,Zhao, Y.,Wu, S. (2014). Space situational awareness - protecting assets in space from orbital debris (a RMIT University perspective on the space environment management CRC) In: Proceedings of the Geospatial Science Research 3 (GSR_3), Melbourne, Australia, 2 - 3 December 2014
- Monitoring of the Atmosphere over the Australian and Antarctic regions using GNSS radio occultation.. Funded by: Australian Antarctic Science Program Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2020)
- Next generation space weather forecasts. Funded by: ARC Linkage Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2019)
- Innovative Solutions to Enhance Space Situational Awareness. Funded by: ARC Linkage Grant 2013 from (2013 to 2016)
- The equatorial ionosphere and its effects on radio applications. Funded by: DBI Victorian Postdoctoral Research Grant pre-2014 from (2013 to 2017)
- GPS Radio Occultation for Studying the Antarctic Atmosphere and Climate Analysis. Funded by: Australian Antarctic Division Grants pre-2014 from (2013 to 2015)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
3 PhD 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