*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 13, Number 28 July 18, 2003 ------------------------ 2003 GEM Student Report ------------------------ From: Yongli Wang I. Overview GEM sponsored 56 students (40 last year) from 13 different institutes (16 last year) to attend the 2003 GEM workshop. Student interest break down was: 43% Inner Magnetosphere/Storms (50% last year), 21% Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (20% last year), 13% Tail/Substorms (10% last year), 17% GGCM (20% last year), 20% Not determined or not directly related to the four GEM campaigns. Among these students, 38% were undergraduate students or first year graduate students, 28% were graduate students of four years or higher. II. Student Tutorial Schedule Student tutorials were held on Sunday, June 22. There are four subsessions corresponding to the four ongoing GEM campaigns, and four separate talks on other interesting topics. One student subsession chair was selected to be in charge of the selection and organization of the tutorials for each of the four subsessions. The detailed student tutorial schedule is listed below: Open remarks and introduction to GEM (Yongli Wang) 5 min Introduction to the magnetosphere (Karen Remick) 15 min Session 1: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Session Chair: Karen Remick 1. Intro and MI Coupling: Particles (Karen Remick) 15 min 2. MI Coupling: Electrodynamics (William Peter) 15 min 3. MI Coupling: Modeling (John Styers) 15 min Session 2: Inner Magnetosphere Storms Session Chair: Robyn Millan 1. Introduction to the plasmasphere (Dave Berube) 15 min 2. Ring current and IM E-fields (Jerry Goldstein) 15 min 3. Radiation belts (Robyn Millan) 15 min Overview of what data/models/tools are available on the web (Maria Spasojevic) 15 min XSpace: Visualization of space plasma processes (M. Cowee, G. Fowler, and Y.L. Wang) 15 min Session 3: Magnetotail/Substorm Session Chair: Scott Thompson 1. General magnetotail structure (James Weygand) 15 min 2. Substorm phenomenology and models (Manish Mithaiwala) 15 min 3. Steady Magnetospheric Convection (SMC) (Scott Thompson) 15 min Session 4: Geospace General Circulation Model Session Chair: Colby Lemon 1. Introduction to the GGCM (Colby Lemon) 5 min 2. Introduction to global MHD simulation (Michelle Reno) 15 min 3. Rice Convection Model (Colby Lemon) 10 min 4. Radiation belt modeling (Kara Perry) 15 min Introduction to the candidates for the next GEM student representative 5 min Based on last year's student tutorial feedback which requested more general introduction to the field, also because of so many young students to GEM this year, we set this year's student tutorials at an introductory level. On a scale of 1 to 5, the tutorials were on average rated a 4.0 for usefulness among students before their fourth year graduate study. Also because of this special arrangement, a usefulness rate of only 2.8 was obtained from fourth year and higher graduate students, which is anticipated. 57% students voted to keep the student tutorial the same level of difficulty, and 28% students wanted to increase the level of difficulty. III. Student-Sponsored Tutorial A student-sponsored tutorial was presented by Dr. Robert Lysak from University of Minnesota on Thursday, June 26. The topic of his talk is: "Electrodynamic Coupling of the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere". IV. New Student Representative This year we had two strong candidates running for the next student representative. Finally Michelle Reno from University of Michigan was selected and she will be the new student representative for 2003-2004. V. Volunteers for Meeting Settings A new contribution from students this year was the student volunteers helping with session settings. One or two student volunteers were assigned to each session for equipment settings and light control. The student volunteers were: Austin Barker, Xia Cai, Yue Fei, Katherine Garcia, Tim Guild, Alexa Halford, Elly Huang, Colby Lemon, Yining Li, Shuxiang Liu, Daniel Main, Aramis Martinez, Paul Ontiveros, Karen Remick, John Sample, Yong Shi, Scott Thompson, Jiannan Tu, Yongli Wang, Deirdre Wendel, Jesse Woodroffe, Jichun Zhang. They did a very satisfactory job in helping GEM. VI. GEM Student Website This year we set up a student website for GEM student activities. Many items have been added to help GEM students, especially new students, including: Introduction to GEM student tutorial, Tips at GEM, Student participant list, Student tutorial schedule, GEM student newsletters, Student tutorial guideline, etc. I have received many inputs to improve the website and most of these inputs were reflected on the website within one day. This website has proven to be very helpful to many students. ---------------- From: Ginet Gregory P Civ AFRL/VSBX +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To subscribe GEM Messengers, send an e-mail to | | with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: | | subscribe gem | |To remove yourself from the mailing list, the command is: | | unsubscribe gem | | | |To broadcast a message to the GEM community, please contact Peter Chi at | | | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html | |Workshop Information: http://gem.rice.edu/~gem | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+