Kyeong Ja Kim

Expertise: Nuclear planetology, cosmogeochronology
Affiliation: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
Certification/Education:
Ph.D. Victoria University of Wellington, Geology 2001
M.S. San Jose State University, Radiological Health Physics, 1997
B.S. Gyeongsang National University, Physics, 1986
Publications:

Kim, K. J., N. Hasebe, 2012. Nuclear Planetology: Especially Concerning the Moon and Mars. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 12(10), 1313-1380.

Yamashita, N., O. Gasnault, O. Forni, C. d’Uston, R.C. Reedy, Y. Karouji, S. Kobayashi, M. Hareyama, H. Nagaoka, N. Hasebe, K. J. Kim, 2012. The global distribution of calcium on the Moon: Implications for high Ca pyroxene in the eastern mare region, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 353-354, 93-98.

Kim, K. J., J. M. Dohm, J.-P. Williams, J. Ruiz, T. M. Hare, N. H., Y. Karouji, S. Kobayashi, M. Hareyama, E. Shibamura, M. Kobayashi, C. d’Uston, O. Gasnault, O. Forni, S. Maurice, 2012. The South Pole-Aitken basin region, Moon: GIS-based geologic investigation using Kaguya elemental information, Advances in Space Research, 50, 1629-1637.

Kobayashi, S., Y. Karouji, T. Morota, H. Takeda, N., Hasebe, M. Hareyama, M. Kobayashi, E. Shibamura, N. Yamashita, C. d’Uston, O. Gasnault, O. Forni, R. C Reedy, K. J. Kim, Yoshiaki Ishihara, 2012. Lunar farside Th distribution measured by Kaguya gamma-ray spectrometer, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 337-338, 10-16.

Kyeong Ja Kim, Yoshiharu Amano, William V. Boynton, Gostar KlingelhÖfer, Johannes Brüuckner, Nobuyuki Hasebe, Dave Hamara, Richard D. Starr, Lucy F. Lim, Gwanghyeok Ju, Timothy J. Fagan, Tohru Ohta, Eido Shibamura, An Active X-Ray Spectrometer for the SELENE-2 Rover, Transaction of JSASS, 2014 (in press)

FINESSE Research Objectives

Kyeong Kim is involved in surface characterizations of the proposed field sites using X-ray analysis and comparison of terrestrial analogue with lunar and martian surface environment characterized by elemental remote sensing data

Biography

Kyeong Kim worked as a staff scientist at the GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand from 1996 to 2002. Kyeong Kim worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Meteorites at the University of New Mexico from 2002 to 2005 participating in Mars Odyssey Gamma–Ray Spectrometer Program and NASA Cosmochemistry Program for numerical modeling of cosmogenic nuclide production rates in extraterrestrial materials. Kyeong Kim worked as an assistant staff scientist at Lunar and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona from 2005 to 2006 to continue in participation for the Mars Odyssey Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Program. Kyeong Kim joined Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources in Dec. 2006 and currently Kyeong Kim works as a principal researcher at the Planetary Geology Department of the Geological Research Division. Kyeong Kim is an adjunct professor at the Department of Geophysical exploration at the University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea. Kyeong Kim has participated in SELENE-1 (Kaguya) GRS program since 2009 and worked on the pre-project of SELENE-2 Rover’s Active X-ray Spectrometer program. Kyeong Kim focuses on research areas of planetary remote sensing using nuclear science payloads, paleoclimate change, and cosmogeochronology using cosmogenic nuclides, especially for Beryllium-10, Aluminum-26, and Carbon-14.