Brief Bio
My current research interests involve studying the properties of energetic particle precipitation
that originate from the radiation belts to understand their impact on Earth’s atmosphere and the
magnetosphere as a whole. My experience is in particle data analysis from single- and multi-
spacecraft missions to quantify the properties of particle precipitation, in addition to operating a
CubeSat mission, creating data processing pipelines, and launching high altitude balloons.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Shumko, M., Gallardo-Lacourt, B., Halford, A. J., Liang, J., Blum, L. W., Donovan, E., et al. (2021). A
Strong Correlation Between Relativistic Electron Microbursts and Patchy Aurora. Geophysical
Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094696. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094696
Shumko, M., Blum, L. W., & Crew, A. B. (2021). Duration of Individual Relativistic Electron
Microbursts: A Probe Into Their Scattering Mechanism. Geophysical Research Letters, 48,
e2021GL093879. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093879
Shumko, M., Johnson, A. T., Sample, J. G., Griffith, B. A., Turner, D. L., O’Brien, T. P., et al. (2020).
Electron microburst size distribution derived with AeroCube‐6. Journal of Geophysical
Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027651. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027651
Johnson, A. T., Shumko, M., Griffith, B., Klumpar, D. M., Sample, J., Springer, L., … & Blake, J. B.
(2020). The FIREBIRD-II CubeSat mission: Focused investigations of relativistic electron burst
intensity, range, and dynamics. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(3), 034503.
Shumko, M., Johnson, A. T., O’Brien, T. P., Turner, D. L., Greeley, A. D., Sample, J. G., et al. (2020).
Statistical properties of electron curtain precipitation estimated with AeroCube‐6. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA028462.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028462
Shumko, M., Sample, J., Johnson, A., Blake, J. B., Crew, A. B., Spence, H. E., et al. (2018).
Microburst scale size derived from multiple bounces of a microburst simultaneously observed
with the FIREBIRD‐II CubeSats. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 8811– 8818.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078925