Dr. Guan Le Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics NASA/GSFC, Code 696 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-1087 Fax: (301) 286-1648 Email: Guan.Le.1@nasa.gov

PRESENT POSITION:

Astrophysicist, Electrodynamics Branch
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
M.S. in Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
B.S. in Physic, University of Science and Technology of China, 1984

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Le has been active in magnetosphere experimental investigations. Her research interests include the Earth's dayside magnetopause and boundary layers, the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and ULF waves in the regions upstream of collisionless shocks, in the magnetosphere and on the ground. Her primary research activities have involved the analysis and interpretation of spacecraft data and ground-based magentic field data as they relate to these various research areas.

EXPERIENCE:

2000-present -- Astrophysicist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
1991 - 2000 -- Research Geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
1986 - 1991 -- Graduate Student Researcher, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

Flight Teams

2001 -- Team Member, C/NOFS VEFI
2000 -- ST-5 Magnetic Field Science Validation Lead
1993 -- Team Member, Polar Magnetic Field Experiment
1986 -- Team Member, ISEE Magnetometers

Services
1994 - present -- Editor, American Geophysics Union SPA Section Newsletter
1994 - 1998 -- Editor, American Geophysics Union SPA Section Web Site
1991 - present -- Editor, NSF Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Newletters

HONORS:

1998 -- GSFC Group Achievement Award for POLAR Magnetic Field Experiment Team
1998 -- American Geophysical Union SPA Section Exemplary Service Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Le., G., J. Raeder, C. T. Russell, G. Lu, S. M. Petrinec, and F. S. Mozer, Polar cusp and vicinity under strongly northward IMF on April 11, 1997: Observations and MHD simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 106 , 21,083, 2001.  
2. Le., G., C. T. Russell, and S. M. Petrinec, Magnetosphere on May 11, 1999, the day the solar wind almost disappeared: I. Current systems, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1827-1830, 2000.
3. Le., G., P. J. Chi, W. Goedecke, C. T. Russell, A. Szabo, S. M. Petrinec, V. Angelopoulos, G. D. Reeves, and F. K. Chun, Magnetosphere on May 11, 1999, the day the solar wind almost disappeared: II. Magnetic pulsations in space and on the ground, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2165-2168, 2000.
4. Russell, C. T., G. Le, and S. M. Petrinec, Cusp observations of high- and low- latitude reconnection for northward IMF: An alternate view, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 5489, 2000.
5. Le, G., J. T. Gosling, C. T. Russell, R. C. Elphic, M. F. Thomsen, and J. A. Newbury, The magnetic and plasma structure of flux transfer event, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 233, 1999.
6. Blanco-Cano, X., G. Le, and C.T. Russell, Identification of foreshock waves with three second periods, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 4643-4656, 1999.
7. Le, G., and C. T. Russell, Initial POLAR MFE observations of the low-altitude polar magnetosphere: Monitoring the ring current with polar orbiting spacecraft, J. Geophys. Res.,103, 17,343, 1998.
8. Le, G., C. T. Russell, J. T. Gosling, and M. F. Thomsen, ISEE observations of low latitude boundary layer for northward interplanetary magnetic field: Implications for cusp reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,239-27,249, 1996.
9. Le, G., C. T. Russell, and J. T. Gosling, Structure of the magnetopause for low Mach number and strongly northward interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 23,723, 1994
10. Le., G. and C. T. Russell, The morphology of ULF waves in the Earth's foreshock, in Solar Wind Sources of Magnetospheric Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves, edited by M. J. Engebretson, K. Takahashi, and M. Scholer, Geophysical Monograph 81, p.87-98, AGU, Washington DC, 1994.

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