Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Erika Kohler

(Research AST, Planetary Studies)

Erika Kohler's Contact Card & Information.
Email: erika.kohler@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.5756
Org Code: 691
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 691
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Missions & Projects

Positions/Employment


Research Space Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

June 2019 - Present


Postdoctoral Research Fellow

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

2016 - 2019

Education


Professional Societies


D.C. Chapter of the American Meteorological Society

Vice Chairperson

2018 - Present


American Geophysical Union

2013 - Present


American Meteorological Society

2009 - Present

Professional Service


Session Chair for Lunar & Planetary Science Conference - 2019

Session Chair & Convener for American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting - 2018, 2019

Student member, American Meteorological Society Committee on Space Weather - 2016

Member of VEXAG Early Career Scholars - 2015–Present

Volunteer, VEXAG Early Career Scholars Focus Group - 2014–2015

External reviewer, panel member and panel chair for several NASA grant programs 

Awards


Selected Finalist AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship - 2018, 2019

Selected for Planetary Science Winter School - 2018

NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - 2016

NASA Student Ambassador - 2014

NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Graduate Research Fellowship - 2013–2016


Selected Publications


Refereed

2020. "Investigation into the radar anomaly on Venus: The effect of Venus conditions on bismuth, tellurium, and sulfur mixtures." Icarus 336 113432 [10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113432] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "The thermal structure of the Venus atmosphere: Intercomparison of Venus Express and ground based observations of vertical temperature and density profiles." Icarus 294 124-155 [10.1016/j.icarus.2017.04.020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Radar Anomaly (Venus)." Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms [Article in Book]

Non-Refereed

2018. "Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority." ArXiv e-prints [Journal Article/Letter]