Joan Burkepile
Project Scientist III
Joan Burkepile is a Project Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
She received her degree in Physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1983 and joined the High Altitude Observatory in July 1983. She studies Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), and the evolution of the solar corona. She is the Principal Investigator for the COSMO K-Coronagraph and manages the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory.