Welcome to the Home Page for

KD Leka

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(Last update: December 2006).

Senior Research Scientist at the Colorado Research Associates division of Northwest Research Associates
• Professional Interests:
• Solar Magnetic Fields
• Sunspot Evolution
• Instrumentation, especially Magnetographs/Stokes Polarimeters
• Solar Flares, their causes and effects.
• For more details, see my curriculum vita, or download a preprint.
• Current Projects and Data:
• Advanced Stokes Polarimeter: August 1998 Data, May 1999 Data, April/May 2001 Logs (and some data).
• Imaging Vector Magnetograph
• Click here to access the data used in our Paper IV (a "statistically significant sample").   Please read and heed the relevant disclaimers.
• AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION
• Advanced Technology Solar Telescope and SOLIS
• Recent Talks and Posters (click to download the PDF file)
• NOAA/SEC chat with forecasting staff on Using/Interpreting Upcoming Synoptic Vector Magnetic Field data
  
• "Are we There Yet?" Colloquium at U. Colorado at Boulder, 2005
  
• Status Report presented to Scientific Advisory Board, AFOSR, 2005
  
• Space Weather Week 2005
• AAS/SPD 2005:  "Another Piece of the Elephant","Active Regions observed in the Chromosphere"
  
• NCAR/HAO  colloquium, 2003
• SHINE 2004 workshop
  
• NOAA/SEC colloquium, 2004
  
• Frequently Used Links:
• Mees Solar Observatory, University of Hawai'i
• NSO/Sacramento Peak
• SolarMonitor
  
• ADS Abstract Service.

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For more information, please contact me:

• leka"at"cora.nwra.com
• K. D. Leka
NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.
Colorado Research Associates Division,
3380 Mitchell Ln.
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 415-9701x219

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DISCLAIMER: I work for NWRA/CoRA, observe at NSO/SPO, and am currently funded by the NSF, NASA, and AFOSR. I think for myself and write for myself and take responsibility for both. If you take issue with the documents I write or the links I include or the views I expound upon, contact me and not the NSF, NASA, AFOSR, NWRA or NSO. (Second- and third-generation links, however, are beyond my control!)