I am interested in the formation of the solar corona and solar wind -- and the tools we use to probe them. The Sun's magnetic field links every aspect of the solar system, from the star's deep interior to the environment in deep space and planetary neighborhoods, to the dimensions of our local bubble in interstellar space.
This system (the "heliosphere") is large and complex, and each element of it has become the subject of an entire scientific specialty. We are on the cusp of a new era of integrated heliophysics, when the entire system can be understood and studied as more than the sum of its isolated parts.