Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Gang Kai Poh

(Assistant Research Scientist)

Gang Kai Poh's Contact Card & Information.
Email: gangkai.poh@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.286.0445
Org Code: 675
Address:
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

Selected Publications

Refereed

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Large‐Amplitude Oscillatory Motion of Mercury's Cross‐Tail Current Sheet." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 125 (7): [10.1029/2020ja027783] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Transport of Mass and Energy in Mercury's Plasma Sheet." Geophysical Research Letters 45 (22): 12,163-12,170 [10.1029/2018gl080601] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Mercury's cross-tail current sheet: Structure, X-line location and stress balance." Geophysical Research Letters 44 (2): 678-686 [10.1002/2016gl071612] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "MESSENGER Observations of Cusp Plasma Filaments at Mercury." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 121 (9): 8260–8285 [10.1002/2016ja022552] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Cassini in situ observations of long-duration magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s magnetotail." Nature Physics 12 (3): 268-271 [10.1038/nphys3565] [Journal Article/Letter]

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] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Solar wind forcing at Mercury: WSA-ENLIL model results." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 118 (1): 45-57 [10.1029/2012ja018064] [Journal Article/Letter]

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