Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Gang Kai Poh

(POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOC.)

 gangkai.poh@nasa.gov

 301.286.0445

Org Code: 675

NASA/GSFC
 Mail Code: 695
 Greenbelt, MD 20771

Employer: CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA

Positions/Employment

Assistant Research Scientist

The Catholic University of America - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2021 - Present

Research Associate Professor

Catholic University of America - Washington DC

2022 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

CRESSTII, The Catholic University of America - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2019 - 2021

Postdoctoral Research Associate

CRESSTII, University of Maryland Baltimore County - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2018 - 2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan

2017 - 2018

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan

2012 - 2017

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado - Boulder, Colorado

2011 - 2012

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union

Member

2012 - Present

European Geophysical Union

Member

2014 - Present

Asia Oceania Geoscience Society

Member

2014 - Present

Professional Service

Mercury Exploration Assessment Group (MExAG) Steering Committee

Role: Early Career Steering Committee Member


NASA review panel

Executive Secretary, 2014

 

NASA review panel

Panelist, 2019 – current

 

Asia Oceania Geoscience Society Conference

Session Convener, 2018 – current

 

American Geophysical Union Fall Conference

Session Convener, 2021 – current

 

NASA Request for Information Space Weather Instruments and Missions for Science (SWIMS)

Title: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fluxgate Magnetometers for Space Weather Observations

Role: Co-author

 

NASA Request for Information Development of Flight Capacity Building Programs for Emerging International Partners

Title: Development of a flight capacity building program for Space Weather Research at CUA in collaboration with NASA GSFC

Role: PI/Lead Author


Association for Women in Science affiliate chapter at University of Michigan, 2017 – 2018

Member

 

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Working Group, 2020 – 2022

MExAG Representative

Awards

Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Fellowship, 2014 - 2015

Grants

Magnetopause Reconnection at Mercury

Discovery Data Analysis Program - NASA - Awarded: 2018-06-15


MMS GI Investigation of Magnetic Flux Rope Formation and Evolution in the Cross-tail Current Sheet

MMS Guest Investigator Program - NASA - Awarded: 2018-10-01


MMS Investigation of Ultra-Low Frequency Waves in the Earth’s Upstream Ion Foreshock Region

MMS Early Career Grant - NASA - Awarded: 2020-09-01


Dates:  - 

Dynamics and statistical properties of Eart's magnetopause X-lines and flux transfer events

Heliophysics Supporting Research - NASA - Awarded: 2021-07-13


Dates:  - 

Investigation of Upstream ULF waves in Mercury’s Foreshock

Discovery Data Analysis Program - NASA - Awarded: 2021-04-01


Dates:  - 

Erosion and Dissipation of Earthward-moving Flux Ropes in the near-Earth’s Geomagnetic Tail Region: Dynamics and Particle Energization

Heliophysics Guest Investigator - Open - Catholic University of America - Awarded: 2023-01-01


Dates:  - 

Special Experience

NASA GSFC Values & Goals Team

Role: Goals #2 Team Member

Publications

Refereed

Poh, G., J. R. Espley, K. Nykyri, et al. C. M. Fowler, X. Ma, S. Xu, G. Hanley, N. Romanelli, C. Bowers, J. Gruesbeck, and G. A. DiBraccio. 2021. On the Growth and Development of Non‐Linear Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability at Mars: MAVEN Observations Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126 (9): [10.1029/2021ja029224]

Poh, G., W. Sun, K. M. Clink, et al. J. A. Slavin, R. M. Dewey, X. Jia, J. M. Raines, G. A. DiBraccio, and J. R. Espley. 2020. Large‐Amplitude Oscillatory Motion of Mercury's Cross‐Tail Current Sheet Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (7): [10.1029/2020ja027783]

Poh, G., J. A. Slavin, S. Lu, et al. G. Le, D. S. Ozturk, W. Sun, S. Zou, J. P. Eastwood, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, C. T. Russell, D. J. Gershman, B. L. Giles, C. J. Pollock, T. E. Moore, R. B. Torbert, and J. L. Burch. 2019. Dissipation of Earthward Propagating Flux Rope Through Re‐reconnection with Geomagnetic Field: An MMS Case Study Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 2018JA026451 [10.1029/2018ja026451]

Poh, G., J. A. Slavin, X. Jia, et al. W. Sun, J. M. Raines, S. M. Imber, G. A. DiBraccio, and D. J. Gershman. 2018. Transport of Mass and Energy in Mercury's Plasma Sheet Geophysical Research Letters 45 (22): 12,163-12,170 [10.1029/2018gl080601]

Poh, G., J. A. Slavin, X. Jia, et al. J. M. Raines, S. M. Imber, W.-J. Sun, D. J. Gershman, G. A. DiBraccio, K. J. Genestreti, and A. W. Smith. 2017. Coupling between Mercury and its nightside magnetosphere: Cross-tail current sheet asymmetry and substorm current wedge formation Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 122 (8): 8419-8433 [10.1002/2017ja024266]

Poh, G., J. A. Slavin, X. Jia, et al. J. M. Raines, S. M. Imber, W.-J. Sun, D. J. Gershman, G. A. DiBraccio, K. J. Genestreti, and A. W. Smith. 2017. Mercury's cross-tail current sheet: Structure, X-line location and stress balance Geophysical Research Letters 44 (2): 678-686 [10.1002/2016gl071612]

Poh, G., J. A. Slavin, X. Jia, et al. G. A. DiBraccio, J. M. Raines, S. M. Imber, D. J. Gershman, W.-J. Sun, B. J. Anderson, H. Korth, T. H. Zurbuchen, R. L. McNutt, and S. C. Solomon. 2016. MESSENGER Observations of Cusp Plasma Filaments at Mercury Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 121 (9): 8260–8285 [10.1002/2016ja022552]

Arridge, C. S., J. P. Eastwood, C. M. Jackman, et al. G.-K. Poh, J. A. Slavin, M. F. Thomsen, N. André, X. Jia, A. Kidder, L. Lamy, A. Radioti, D. Reisenfeld, N. Sergis, M. Volwerk, A. P. Walsh, P. Zarka, A. Coates, and M. K. Dougherty. 2015. Cassini in situ observations of long-duration magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s magnetotail Nature Physics 12 (3): 268-271 [10.1038/nphys3565]

Slavin, J. A., G. A. DiBraccio, D. J. Gershman, et al. S. M. Imber, G. K. Poh, J. M. Raines, T. H. Zurbuchen, X. Jia, D. N. Baker, K.-H. Glassmeier, S. A. Livi, S. A. Boardsen, T. A. Cassidy, M. Sarantos, T. Sundberg, A. Masters, C. L. Johnson, R. M. Winslow, B. J. Anderson, H. Korth, R. L. McNutt, and S. C. Solomon. 2014. MESSENGER observations of Mercury's dayside magnetosphere under extreme solar wind conditions Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 119 (10): 8087-8116 [10.1002/2014ja020319]

Baker, D. N., G. Poh, D. Odstrcil, et al. C. N. Arge, M. Benna, C. L. Johnson, H. Korth, D. J. Gershman, G. C. Ho, W. E. McClintock, T. A. Cassidy, A. Merkel, J. M. Raines, D. Schriver, J. A. Slavin, S. C. Solomon, P. M. Trávníček, R. M. Winslow, and T. H. Zurbuchen. 2013. Solar wind forcing at Mercury: WSA-ENLIL model results Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 118 (1): 45-57 [10.1029/2012ja018064]

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