NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Brief Bio and expertise:
Dr. Fok received her PhD in Atmospheric and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan in 1993. Since then she has been performing scientific research at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (1993-1997) and Goddard Space Flight Center (1997-present). Dr. Fok is an expert in ring current, radiation belts, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling simulation and data analysis. She is the founder of the Comprehensive Ring Current Model (CRCM), the Radiation Belt Environment (RBE) Model and the Comprehensive Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere (CIMI) Model. All these models have been widely used in scientific studies, mission design and space weather application.
Selected Relevant Publications:
Fok, M.-C., J. U. Kozyra, A. F. Nagy, C. E. Rasmussen, and G. V. Khazanov, Decay of equatorial ring current ions and associated aeronomical consequences, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 19,381, 1993.
Fok, M.-C., R. A. Wolf, R. W. Spiro, and T. E. Moore (2001), Comprehensive computational model of the Earth’s ring current, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 8417-8424.
Fok, M.-C., T. E. Moore, P. C. Brandt, D. C. Delcourt, S. P. Slinker, and J. A. Fedder, Impulsive enhancements of oxygen ions during substorms (2006), J. Geophys. Res., 111, A10222, doi:10.1029/2006JA011839.
Fok, M.-C., R. B. Horne, N. P. Meredith, and S. A. Glauert (2008), Radiation Belt Environment model: Application to space weather nowcasting, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A03S08, doi:10.1029/2007JA012558.
Fok, M.-C., N. Y. Buzulukova, S.-H. Chen, A. Glocer, T. Nagai, P. Valek, and J. D. Perez (2014), The Comprehensive Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Model, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 7522-7540, doi:10.1002/2014JA020239.
Fok, M.-C., G. V. Khazanov, E. N. Krivorutsky, A. Glocer (2016), Convective growth of electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves from realistic ring current ion distributions, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, doi:10.1002/ 2016JA022964.