Hyung Rae Kim, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Terrestrial Physics

GSFC Code:

698

Mailing Address:

NASA GSFC, Code 698
Building 33, Rm F306
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6497

Fax:

(301) 614-6522

Email:

URL:

http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/personal_pages/kimhr/kimhr.html

Research Interests:

Biography:

Dr. Hyung Rae Kim received a B.Sc. in Department of Geology from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea in 1993, a Masters degree majoring in Geophysics in Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Purdue University, Indiana in 1997. His Masters thesis examined aspects of the external geomagnetic field in the POGO satellite data. Satellite magnetic data measured the signals due to the electromagnetic current systems occurring especially around the dip equator (called Equatorial Electrojet) in the daytime. He investigated the nature of Equatorial Electrojet in terms of local time and longitude. He continued studying the geomagnetic field of the Earth in the Department of Geological Sciences at The Ohio State University under Dr. R. von Frese's direction and earned a PhD in June of 2002. His PhD thesis investigated the lithospheric magnetic anomalies from Ørsted magnetometer satellite and near-surface (i.e., ground, shipborne and airborne) data in Antarctic. After he finished his PhD degree, he spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio State University working for ADMAP and preparation for Mars Data Analysis Program. While he stayed in Columbus, he also prepared several pending proposals for the Antarctic research, Mars magnetic field study, geopotential analysis of North America (e.g., Earthscope) and so forth. In 2003, Dr. Kim has received a GEST visiting scholarship and since then he has conducted research as a postdoctoral research associate at GEST, where his research activity has focused on developing the advanced model of Antarctic magnetic field anomaly as an active member of ADMAP in cooperation with other international geophysical community.