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Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum Student Engagement Mesospheric, thermospheric, ionospheric and magnetospheric physics Space and Solar Physics Heliophysics and space weather

Dr Sam Tuttle

Program Director

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

College of Sciences

Date	Position	Institution name
2023 - ongoing	Program Director: Science	University of South Australia
2020 - ongoing	Lecturer: Applied Physics	University of South Australia
2019 - 2020	Senior Tutor in Physics	Massey University
2015 - 2018	Tutor in Physics	Massey University

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2010 - 2017	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	PhD
2005 - 2009	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	MSci

Year	Citation
2020	Tuttle, S., Lanchester, B., Gustavsson, B., Whiter, D., Ivchenko, N., Fear, R., & Lester, M. (2020). Horizontal electric fields from flow of auroral O+(2P) ions at sub-second temporal resolution. Annales Geophysicae, 38(4), 845-859. DOI Scopus7
2015	Schlatter, N. M., Belyey, V., Gustavsson, B., Ivchenko, N., Whiter, D., Dahlgren, H., . . . Grydeland, T. (2015). Auroral ion acoustic wave enhancement observed with a radar interferometer system. Annales Geophysicae, 33(7), 837-844. DOI Scopus4
2014	Tuttle, S., Gustavsson, B., & Lanchester, B. (2014). Temporal and spatial evolution of auroral electron energy spectra in a region surrounding the magnetic zenith. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 119(3), 2318-2327. DOI Scopus8
2014	Tuttle, S. (2014). Calculating the auroral electron energy. Astronomy and Geophysics, 55(4), 4.17-4.19. DOI Scopus2

Year	Citation
2025	Tuttle, S. (2025). RE-IMAGINING ASSESSMENT IN A PHYSICS COURSE FOR AVIATION STUDENTS. In Proceedings of The 31st Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (2025) (pp. 71). Melbourne.

Courses I teach

Astronomy 1 (PHYS 1003) - Sem 1
Foundations of Physics (PHYS 1000) - Sem 1
Aviation Physics 1 (AERO 2011) - Sem 2
Space Science and Astrophysics 2 (PHYS 2005) - Sem 2

Position: Program Director
Email: sam.tuttle@adelaide.edu.au

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