GEM Tutorials

2009 Summer Workshop

1. Steve Petrinec: The magnetosheath (ppt) (pdf) (Monday, June 22)
2. Mei-Ching Fok: Ring current modeling - approaches, status and outstanding questions (ppt) (pdf) (Monday, June 22)
3. Alec Glocer: Modeling ionospheric outflows and their effect on the magnetosphere (Tuesday, June 23)
4. Jay Johnson: Challenges in understanding plasma entry and transport (ppt) (pdf) (Tuesday, June 23)
5. George Siscoe: From the Chapman-Ferraro Magnetosphee to the Dungey-Alfven Magnetosphere(ppt) (pdf) (Students-sponsored tutorial, Wednesday, June 24)
6. Bill Lotko: Does geospace exercise self control? (ppt)(pdf) (Thursday, June 24)
7. Aaron Ridley: Climatological modeling using the AMIE code (ppt)(pdf) (Thursday, June 24)
8. Brian Anderson: Near-term new observational capabilities in M-I coupling: AMPERE and the mid-latitude SuperDARN chain(ppt) (pdf)(Friday, June 25)
9. Dick Wolf: Entropy and earthward transport in the plasma sheet (ppt) (pdf)(Friday, June 25)

2008 GEM-CEDAR Workshop

1. Robert L. McPherron: What Do Magnetospheric Physicists Need from a Solar Wind Model?
2. Maria Spasojevic: Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions
3. Larry Kepko: Modes and Timescales of Magnetotail Transport
4. Nigel Meredith: Local Acceleration and Loss of Relativistic Electrons in the Earth’s Outer Radiation Belt
5. Eric Donovan
6. John Lyons
7. Janet Kozyra: Space Weather: Observational evidence for coupling and feedbacks involving the ITM

2007 Summer Workshop

1. Nick Viall: Solar Wind/Outer Magnetosphere
2. Raluca Ilie: Inner Magnetosphere:Plasma Sheet and Ring Current
3. Bob Johnston: Introduction to the Radiation Belts
4. Betsey Mitchell: Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Coupling
5. Dan Welling: Modeling the Space Environment
6. Betsey Mitchell: Inner Magnetosphere:Plasma and Ring Current
7. Elly Huang: Radiation Belt Part II
8. Hyomin Kim: M-I Coupling
9. Katie Garcia: Modeling: New Challenges and Approaches

2006 Summer Workshop

1. R. J. Strangeway: Using the CCMC – Tutorial
2. M. Liemohn: Ring Current and Plasmasphere Accomplishments During the GEM IM/S Campaign
3. P. M. Kintner, Jr. et al.[http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/tutorial/2006/Kintner_MagIo_CouplingBelow1500km.pdf Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling Below 3000 km: Conversion of

Upwelling Ions to Escaping Ions or If O+ is important in the magnetosphere, how does it get out of the ionosphere?]

1. K. J. Trattner: [Using the Cusp to Study Magnetic Reconnection
2. T. E. Moore: Ionospheric Plasma in the Earth’s Magnetotail
3. Kazue Takahashi: Magnetoseismology for the inner magnetosphere
4. Tuija Pulkkinen: Energy as a global-scale diagnostic for MI coupling processes
5. R. M. Thorne: Physical Processes in the Radiation Belts:10 Years of GEM IMS Accomplishments
6. A. N.. Wright: The Physics of Field-Aligned Currents
7. M. Hesse: Kinetic Processes and MHD Models:Can they work together?
8. C. T. Russell: Time-Varying Reconnection
9. R. Fear: FTE motion:Comparison with the Cooling model
10. T. E. Moore: Reconnection

GEM Tutorials during 1999-2007

1999-2007 Tutorials