Focus Area
Remote Sensing, Earth, & Space Sciences
Education
Ph.D., Atmospheric and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan, 1996.
B.S., Fluid Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1989.
Professional Experiences
2006–Present, Scientist III, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory.
2007-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2006-Present Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics.
2004-Present Visiting Professor, Key Laboratory for Space Weather, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2004-2007 Faculty Affiliate, Physics Department, Colorado State University.
2003–2006, Scientist II, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory.
1999–2003, Scientist I, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory.
1997–1999, Postdoctoral Visitor, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory.
Awards (selected)
Nominated for NCAR Scientific and Technical Advancement Award, 2007.
Nominated for NCAR Outstanding Publication Award, 2004.
NCAR/HAO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1997-1999.
Research Interests
The theoretical, numerical, and interpretive studies of the dynamics, structure, and solar/terrestrial responses of the Earth's middle and upper atmosphere, with special emphasis on modeling physical and chemical processes on both global and local scales, and the nonlinear couplings of the global and local scale processes and different regions of the atmosphere. Geophysical turbulence and self-organized critical phenomena in geophysics.