Larisza

Krista

Larisza Krista is a Research Scientist II at University of Colorado/CIRES, in residence at NOAA/NCEI. She is a solar physicist particularly interested in the open magnetic field regions of the Sun and their space weather affects. She studies solar coronal holes and the corresponding high-speed solar wind streams, as well as dimmings regions and the related coronal mass ejections and flares. She is also interested in the radiation belt signatures of corotating interactive regions and the role coronal holes play in the global reorganization of the solar magnetic field over the solar cycle. She earned a MSc in Astrophysics from Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary (2007) and a PhD in physics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2011).