Dr. Jokipii’s research concerns many areas primarily related to plasmas and the transport and acceleration of cosmic rays and energetic particles in the solar wind and in the galaxy.

Major current thrusts revolve around work on the Voyager and ACE space missions, for which he and his group are guest investigators, specializing in theoretical interpretaion and modeling of the observations. Specifically, Dr. Jokipii’s group is currently in the midst of an extensive program of theoretical research into shock waves in turbulent astrophysical plasmas.

This involves extensive theoretical work and three-dimensional simulations, which are exceedingly demanding of computer resources.