2016 GEM-CEDAR Workshop

June 19-24, 2016

Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Below is a fluid list of speakers in GEM sessions provided by the GEM Workshop Coordinator and Focus Groups. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the nature of the GEM Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

All other information about the 2016 Joint GEM-CEDAR Workshop can be found at the GEM Meeting Coordinator Website and the CEDARwiki 2016 Workshop Page.

Monday, June 20

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Welcome by Josh Semeter, Mike Wiltberger, Students, and Therese Moretto Jorgensen

• Tutorial GC#1 by Roger Varney -- Geospace electrodynamics

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#2 by Jesper Gjerloev -- Multiscale MI coupling

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection + Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions

• Topic: Impact of large-scale or transient electric fields on inner magnetosphere populations, and the role of particle precipitation of magnetospheric origin on the ionospheric electrodynamics
• Chairs: Stanislav Sazykin, Yiqun Yu

1. Joe Huba : Storm-time electrodynamics of the ionosphere/plasmasphere system using SAMI3/RCM
2. Richard Selesnick: Control of the inner electron radiation belt by large-scale electric fields
3. Sam Califf: Van Allen Probes observations of subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) electric fields
4. Scott Thaller: Van Allen Probes investing of the night/dusk asymmetries of the plasmapause and dawn-dusk electric field, a synoptic study
5. Carlos Martinis: Coincident observations of all-sky images and Van Allen Probes
6. Raluca Ilie: TBD
7. Margaret Chen: TBD
8. Yiqun Yu: A new ionospheric precipitation module coupled with RAM-SCB in geospace general circulation model

Wednesday, June 22

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #1 by James Smith -- System science tutorial

• GEM Tutorial #2 by Marc Lessard -- Aurora and ionosphere/thermosphere coupling

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #3 by Maria Usanova -- Student invited tutorial

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation

Mid-Tail Modeling Challenge: A prolonged N IMF event from 13 to 14 Feb 2014

Chih-Ping Wang: Overview of the event

Joseph Jensen: OpenGGCM

Slava Merkin: LFM

Ilja Honkonen: GUMICS

Xueyi Wang: Auburn University Global Hybrid code

[FG] (Joint) Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Mike Hartinger- Inter-hemispheric (Antarctica/Greenland magnetometers) comparisons of the response to an interplanetary shock

Heli Hietala- Impact rates of magnetosheath high speed jets (to discuss observational inputs required for magnetospheric models)

Boyi Wang - Triggering of poleward moving auroral forms by satellite-imager coordinated observations

Boyi Wang - Response of dayside aurora on closed field lines to solar wind driving

Desheng Han - Throat aurora: the ionospheric signature of cold magnetospheric plasmas interaction with the dayside magnetopause reconnection

Hui Zhang – HFA generated ULF waves in the magnetosphere

Alexa Halford - BARREL observations of the open closed boundary

Reserve time to brainstorm on how to connect the future activities of the new Dayside Kinetics and ULF Wave FGs

Thursday, June 23

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#3 by Phil Erickson -- Cold plasma effect

• Science Highlight GC#4 -- MI precursor to earthquakes

• Science Highlight GC#5 -- Ionospheric reconnection

• Science Highlight GC#6 -- LWS TR&T

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#4 by Shasha Zou -- TBD

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

Substorm event presentation & discussion

• Larry Lyons
• Larry Kepko
• Tony Lui

Short contributed talks

• Dick Wolf: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and interchange stability in a growth-phase arc
• Tony Lui: BBF-substorm connection
• Eric Donovan: Evolution and mapping of substorm onset arc
• Shin Ohtani: PBI-polar cap flow connection
• Misha Sitnov: Distinguish between roles as triggers of the substorm instability and drivers
• Larry Kepko: Statistical analysis of substorm onset and auroral streamers

1600-1800: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

(Cont'd from the 13:30-15:30 session)

Substorm event presentation & discussion

• Larry Lyons
• Larry Kepko
• Tony Lui

Short contributed talks

• Dick Wolf: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and interchange stability in a growth-phase arc
• Tony Lui: BBF-substorm connection
• Jian Yang: RCM perspective of growth phase bubbles and streamers
• Eric Donovan: Evolution and mapping of substorm onset arc
• Shin Ohtani: PBI-polar cap flow connection
• Jiang Liu: Plasma sheet--a source of both R1 and R2 Birkeland currents

[FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances

Anton Artemyev: Mid-tail current sheet

Peter Chi: Waves at ion gyrofrequencies in the magnetotail: ARTEMIS observations near the Moon

Babor Facsko (E Kallio, D. Sibeck, A. Kis, V. Wesztergom, and L. Szarka): Properties of the solar wind near the Moon in the magnetotail

Shin Ohtain: Poleward boundary intensification and polar-cap flows

Chih-Ping Wang: ULF waves at mid-tail and ground magnetic field during the 2014-02-13 N IMF event

Simon Wing: DMSP observations of polar-cap boundary during the 2014-02-13 N IMF event

Chih-Ping Wang: mid-tail and near-Earth tail connection: ARTEMIS-THEMIS tail conjunctions

Friday, June 24

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #4 by Bob Lysak -- ULF wave modeling

• GEM Tutorial #5 by Mike Hartinger -- ULF wave observations

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #6 by Hui Zhang -- SWMI

1600-1800: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Terry Liu - Observations of a new foreshock region upstream of a foreshock bubble's shock

Sanni Hoilijoki - Magnetopause-foreshock interactions induced by dayside reconnection

Heli Hietala - Growth rate and properties of ion beam generated foreshock ULF waves - ARTEMIS observations

Andrey Samsonov - Can we predict magnetospheric expansion for radial IMF using MHD codes?

Hui Zhang - A statistical study on Hot Flow Anomaly Current Sheets