Member Since 1999
Katariina Nykyri
Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Nykyri is a research astrophysicist at NASA GSFC. Her research interests involve physics of the solar wind and solar wind -magnetosphere interactions, focusing on physics of waves and instabilities and cross-scale energy and plasma transport in planetary magnetospheres. Nykyri is a recipient of the NSF's CAREER award in 2009 and was a member of GEM steering committee in 2012-18, and National Academies Committee in 2019 for the Heliophysics midterm assessment.
Professional Experience
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Deputy Project Scientist
2024 - Present
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Professor of Physics, Director of Space Weather at the Centre for Space and Atmospheric Research
2007 - 2024
Education
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Doctorate
2002
AGU Abstracts
Statistical Study of Plasma Mixing Induced by Kelvin Helmholtz Vortices at the Earth's Magnetopause
MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SOLAR WIND–MAGNETOSPHERE–IONOSPHERE SYSTEM II ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Dinesh K V Radhakrishnan, Stephen A. Fuselier, Ste...
Kelvin Helmholtz Instabilities (KHI) result from interactions between the shocked solar wind and the Earths magnetosphere. These are formed due to the...
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Event Study of Ion Cyclotron Waves and Drift Mirror Waves observed by both MMS and GEOTAIL while separated by about a wavelength
FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS IN HIGHLY COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS: WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, TURBULENCE, STRUCTURES, AND INSTABILITIES WITH APPLICATIONS TO HELIOSPHERIC, MAGNETOSPHERIC, AND LABORATORY PLASMA PHYSICS III ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Scott A. Boardsen, Guan Le, Katariina Nykyri, Harr...
During a Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) constellation and GEOTAIL spacecraft outer dusk side magnetospheric conjunction event, all spacecraft simult...
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Unraveling the Structure, Dynamics and Impacts of the Earth-impacting CME during the Mother’s Day, May 10th, 2024 Storm
MESOSCALE STRUCTURES IN THE SOLAR WIND AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Katariina Nykyri, Scott A. Boardsen, Guan Le, Glyn...
Starting in the evening of May 10th, 2024 the Earths magnetosphere was hit bythe coronal mass ejections (CMEs) creating the largest geomagnetic storm ...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2024
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Fellows Committee
2017 - 2019
Member
Spilhaus Award Committee