Sandy Murphree - A Brief Biography

Dr. J. S. (Sandy) Murphree came to the University of Calgary in 1975 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He served as a Research Associate, and Adjunct Associate Professor before being appointed as an Associate Professor in 1988. In 1991 Dr. Murphree was promoted to Professor, and in 1995 he became Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Murphree stepped down as Department Head on June 30, 2000, and resumed regular duties in the department on July 2, 2001. He was appointed Associate Dean (Research and Academic Affairs) on July 1, 2003, with the title changing to Vice-Dean a year later. He became Acting Dean on July 1, 2005, and in March of 2006 he accepted the position of Dean of Science. His term as Dean finishes on June 30, 2010.

Dr. Murphree is an experimental space physicist whose research efforts deal with the physics of the earth's magnetosphere and in particular the processes resulting in the aurora. Primary datasets are those obtained from several satellite borne low-light level imagers of the auroral distribution.