GEM Student Forum

Graduate Student Opportunities

For graduate students looking for postdoc positions or other opportunities, please visit the SPOReS website. The site collects job posting from a number of different sources and maintains a calendar of opportunities and due dates.

CCMC Student Research Contest

The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) and National Science Foundation (NSF) are pleased to announce the first CCMC Student Research Contest.

We invite undergraduate and graduate students who are using (or have recently used) CCMC tools and services in a research project to enter the contest. We also encourage students who used the CCMC tools in a project as a part of their coursework to apply.

A winner will be invited to present their work at the 2012 GEM workshop, and receive travel support.

The report (not to exceed 12 pages) should include a problem statement, which CCMC tools were used and how, description of the results, discussion, conclusions, and references. The report should include figures (generated with CCMC visualization tools) to convey the results in a clear and interesting manner. Ideally, a report can be used as a base for a paper.

Deadline for report submission is May 1, 2012. The reports will be evaluated and winners selected by mid May. For more information, visit http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/contest.php, or contact Rebekah Evans (rebekah.e.frolov@nasa.gov).

GEM Student Workshop, June 17, 2012

All students attending GEM are encouraged to participate in the student workshop. We look forward to having some great student tutorials and discussion. See schedule below.

Student Representatives: Jenni Kissinger (UCLA) and Nathaniel Frissell (Virginia Tech)

2012 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

7:30-9:30am: Student Breakfast (Hoaglund room?)

10:00-10:30am: Introductions and ice-breaker

10:30-10:45am: What is GEM? - Nathaniel Frissell

10:45-11:00am: Solar Wind and Magnetosheath - Wendy Mata

11:00-11:20am: The Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang

11:20-11:40am: High Latitude Electrodynamics - Xiangning Chu

11:40-12:00pm: Aurora - Steve Kaeppler

12:00-12:15pm: Geomagnetic activity (Substorms, storms, etc.) - Christine Gabrielse

12:20-1:20pm: Lunch (1 hour)

1:30-1:45pm: Magnetometers - Kyle Murphy

1:45-2:00pm: SuperDARN - Gareth Perry

2:00-2:15pm: Data Assimilation - Quintin Schiller

2:15-2:30pm: GGCM Modeling - Xing Meng

2:30-2:45pm: CCMC Modeling - Aaron Schutza

2:45-3:15pm: Break (Half an hour)

3:15-3:30pm: Entropy in space physics - Xuanye Ma

3:30-3:45pm: Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions - Lauren Blum

3:45-4:00pm: Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures - Christina Chu

4:00-4:15pm: Ionospheric Influence on the Magnetosphere - Binzheng Zhang

2011 CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop Student Tutorials

Topics

• What is CEDAR? - Roger Varney
• What is GEM? - Jenni Kissinger
• Introduction to the Magnetosphere - Weichao Tu
• Introduction to the Ionosphere - Julie Feldt
• Geomagnetism and Geomagnetic Indices - Matina Gkioulidou
• High Latitude Electrodynamics - Nathaniel Frissell
• Convection in the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang
• Aurora: Magnetospheric View - Christine Gabrielse
• Aurora: Ionospheric View - Carl Andersen
• Geomagnetic Storms - Lauren Blum
• Ion Outflow: R Redmond
• Applications of Incoherent Scatter Radar to MI Coupling - Hassen Akbari
• Introduction to Sounding Rockets - Steve Kaeppler
• CubeSats - Alex Crew
• Ionospheric Models - Levan Lomidze
• GEM Models - Matt Gilson

2010 Workshop Student Tutorials

Topics

• Sun and solar wind- Mike Klida
• The terrestrial magnetosphere - Christine Gabrielse
• Plasma convection in magnetosphere - Jenni Kissinger
• High latitude electrodynamics - Rick Wilder
• Geomagnetic activity - Brian Walsh
• MHD models - Asher Pembroke
• Kinetic models - Roxanne Katus
• CCMC tutorial - Dave Berrios
• Dayside magnetopause reconnection - Ray Fermo
• Near Earth magnetosphere - Dmitriy Subbotin
• Tail dynamics: Substorms, Sawtooth events, SMCs - Matina Gkioulidou
• Future Missions - Alex Crew

Thank you to all who gave student tutorials. If anyone has any questions please contact Jenni Kissinger, [jkissinger@ucla.edu].