GEM Student Forum

Welcome to the GEM Student Forum

Check back here for more updates and announcements for GEM students.

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Current GEM Student Representatives:

2016 - 2017: Anthony Saikin, University of New Hampshire, aax75@wildcats.unh.edu [1]

2016 - 2018: Suzanne Smith, Catholic University of America, suzanne.e.smith@nasa.gov [2]

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.

2017 GEM Workshop Student Day

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Archived Student Workshop Material

2017 GEM Workshop Student Day Tutorials

Organized by Student Representatives Anthony Saikin (UNH) and Suzanne Smith (CUoA)

Intro to GEM 1 - Suzanne Smith Intro to GEM 2 - Anthony Saikin

Magnetospheric Regions

The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere - Sebastian De Pascuale The Dayside Outer Magnetosphere - Mykhaylo Shumko The Nightside Outer Magnetosphere - Ryan Dewey The Inner Magnetosphere - Cristian Ferradas The Ionosphere/Thermosphere - David Kenwood

Dynamics

Geomagnetic Storms - Sam Bingham Geomagnetic Substorms - Niloufar Nowrouzi Magnetic Reconnection - Mojtaba Akhavan-tafti Plasma Waves - Kristoff Paulson

Models

Global Models - Zhiyang Xia

Current/New Work

Mission Overview - Kun Zhang New FG: Magnetotail dipolarization and its effects on the inner magnetosphere - Camilla Harris New FG: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Dynamics - Spencer Hatch New FG: Dayside Kinetic Processes - Sanni Hoilijoki

2016 GEM-CEDAR Joint Workshop Student Day Tutorials

Organized by Student Representatives Robert C. Allen (SwRI/UTSA), Lois Sarno-Smith (U. Michigan), & Anthony Saikin (UNH)

• Introduction to GEM - Robert C. Allen and Anthony Saikin
• Introduction to CEDAR - Victoriya Forsythe and Lindsay Goodwin
• Magnetospheric Geography - Narges Ahmadi
• Ionospheric Geography - Bea Gallardo-Lacourt
• Storms and Substorms - Katie Raymer
• MI coupling - Anthony Saikin
• Winds in the Thermosphere - Astrid Maute
• Particle Acceleration - Christine Gabrielse
• Currents, Electrojects, and Instabilities - John Sahr
• Reconnection - Paul Cassak
• Aurora and the Ionosphere - Jean-Pierre St-Maurice
• Space Weather (plus HAARP - Bill Bristow
• CCMC Models and Other Tools - Maulik Patel
• Large Scale Modeling - Alex Glocer
• Ground and Space Instruments to Study the Ionosphere - Anja Stromme

2015 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

Organized by Student Representatives Ian Cohen (UNH) & Robert C. Allen (SwRI/UTSA)

• What is GEM? - Robert C. Allen (SwRI/UTSA)

Regions

• Sun, the Solar Wind, and Heliosphere - Colin Komar (WVU)
• Outer Magnetosphere: Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, and Tail - Sarah Vines (SwRI/UTSA)
• Inner Magnetosphere - Ashar Ali (LASP)
• Ionosphere and Thermosphere - Bruce Fritz (UNH)

Dynamics

• Magnetic Reconnection - Colby Haggerty (U. Delaware)
• Geomagnetic Storms and Substorms - Alex Boyd (UNH)
• Overview of Generation of Magnetospheric Waves - Lois Sarno-Smith (U. Michigan)

Data & Modeling

• Ground based observations - Bing Yang (U. Calgary)
• Overview of Magnetospheric Missions & Data Sources - Christina Chu (UAF)
• Overview of Models (MHD, inner mag, etc.) - John Haiducek (U. Michigan)

Hot Topics

• Overview of Hot Topics in CEDAR - Ryan McGranaghan (C.U. - Boulder)
• New Focus Group: Flow Channels & Substorms - Bea Gallardo-Lacourt (UCLA)
• New Focus Group: Tail disturbances - Chao Yue (UCLA)

2014 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

Organized by Student Representatives Roxanne Katus (Michigan) & Ian Cohen (UNH)

• What is GEM? - Ian Cohen (UNH)

Regions

• Solar Wind (CME and CIRs, solar wind parameters) - Christina Chu (UAF)
• Outer Magnetosphere (Bow Shock, Magnetosheath, Tail Lobes, etc) - Chao Yue (UCLA)
• Inner Magnetosphere (Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Plasmasphere) - Alex Boyd (UNH)
• Ionosphere and Thermosphere (Basic Structure) - Emine Ceren Eyiguler (ITU)

Dynamics

• Geomagnetic Storms - David Mackler (UTSA/SwRI)
• Substorms - Jodie Barker Ream (UCLA)
• Magnetospheric Waves (understanding the data) - Thomas Moore (ERAU)

Data & Modeling

• Inner Magnetosphere Data - Qianlia Ma (UCLA)
• Ionospheric Data - Gareth Perry (Saskatchewan)
• MHD models - Colin Komar (WVU)
• Inner Magnetosphere models (RAM, HEIDI, ect) - John Haiducek (Michigan)
• CCMC Overview - Marc Kornbleuth (CfA)

Hot Topics

• New GEM focus group: Geospace System Science - Aaron Schutza (Rice)
• New GEM focus group: Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions - Lois Smith (Michigan)
• New GEM focus group: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling - Hong Zhao (CU)

2013 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

Organized by Student Representatives Nathaniel Frissell (VT) & Roxanne Katus (Michigan)

• What is GEM? – Roxanne Katus (UMich)

Regions

• The Sun and Solar Wind (Solar Regions, Solar Cycle, Solar Wind Parameters) - Chao Yue (UCLA)
• The Outer Magnetosphere (Bow Shock, Magentosheath, Tail Lobes, etc.) - David Mackler (SWRI/UTSA)
• The Inner Magnetosphere (Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Plasmasphere) - Quintin Schiller (UCoBoulder)
• The Ionosphere and Thermosphere (Basic Structure) - Ian Cohen (UNH)

Dynamics

• Solar Wind Drivers (CIRs, CMEs, Magnetospheric Coupling, etc.) - Sun-Hee Lee (UAF)
• Geomagnetic Storms - Whitney Lohmeyer (MIT)
• Substorms - Christine Gabrielse (UCLA)
• Magnetospheric Waves - Lauren Blum (UCoBoulder)
• High Latitude Electrodynamics (Electric Fields and Currents) - Ying Zou (UCLA)

Modeling

• GGCM Modeling (MHD Backbone) - Jodie Barker Ream (UCLA)
• Non-MHD Models - Wendy Mata (UCLA)
• CCMC Modeling – Competition Winner - Colin Komar (WVU)
• Data-Model Comparisons - Yanhua Liu (UNH)

Hot Topics

• Van Allen Probes (Science Objectives, Instruments, & Data) (20 min) - Brett Anderson (Dartmouth)
• Connection to CEDAR: Dayside MIT response to transient solar wind, bow shock, and magnetopause phenomena (20 min) - Christina Chu (UAF)
• New GEM Focus Group: Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Convection (20 min) - Nathaniel Frissell (VT)
• New GEM Focus Group: Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (20 min) - Gina DiBraccio (UMich)
• Closing Remarks, David Sibeck and Eric Donovan Talk

2012 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

• What is GEM? - Nathaniel Frissell
• Solar Wind and Magnetosheath - Wendy Mata
• The Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang
• High Latitude Electrodynamics - Xiangning Chu
• Aurora - Steve Kaeppler
• Geomagnetic activity (Substorms, storms, etc.) - Christine Gabrielse
• Magnetometers - Kyle Murphy
• SuperDARN - Gareth Perry
• Data Assimilation - Quintin Schiller
• GGCM Modeling - Xing Meng
• CCMC Modeling - Aaron Schutza
• Entropy in space physics - Xuanye Ma
• Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions - Lauren Blum
• Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures - Christina Chu
• Ionospheric Influence on the Magnetosphere - Binzheng Zhang
• David Sibeck (GEM Steering Committee Chair) addresses students

2011 CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop Student Tutorials

• 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

GEM Poster Guidelines

We, the GEM Student Representatives, host the GEM Student Poster Competition. The competition is designed to be feedback oriented, with students being judged over various areas of poster making and oral presentation. Student's ballots will be returned to them during the conference or afterwards by email. You may sign up for the poster competition as late as Student Day (the Sunday of GEM). To sign up for the GEM Student Poster competition, click here.

Below are some criteria students should consider when constructing their poster.

Scientific Criteria

-Relevance. Through connections to past works, how well does this current study advance, compliment, or supplement previously published works.

-Methodology. The process in which the study was performed should be well articulated and described.

-Results/Current Progress. Pending the current state of the project, are results (or future hopeful results) described and relevant to the work. Future work, if any, should be included and described.

-Oral Articulation. How well articulated was your verbal/oral presentation. Presentation should be cohesive with the poster.

Visual Presentation

-Balance. The poster should be filled with information without being considered cluttered. Avoid unnecessary blank spaces.

-Legibility. Poster should be legible from a normal standing distance (~2-6 feet / 0.6 - 1.8 meters). You may want to avoid font sizes less than 24. Figures should be large enough to be identifiable.

-Graphics. Figures are formatted clearly. All information should be clearly described (e.g., titles, legends, scales, color bars, etc.). Any expository dialogue pertaining to the figure should be present without appearing cluttered (see Balance).

-Flow. The poster follows a logical order. Order should be intuitive.

GEM Student Poster Competition Winners

Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Year	Name	Institution	Title
2016*	Terry Liu	University of California, Los Angeles	Observations of a new foreshock region upstream of a foreshock bubble’s shock
2016*	Katie Raymer	University of Leicester	Solar cycle influences on the shape and location of the Earth's magnetopause

* Indicates tie

Inner Magnetosphere

Year	Name	Institution	Title
2016	Mykhaylo Shumko	Montana State University	Automated FIREBIRD Microburst Detection Using Wavelets in the 200 keV to >1 MeV Range

Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet

Year	Name	Institution	Title
2016	Mojtaba Akhaventafti	University of Michigan	Initial MMS Observations of Force-Free FTE-Type Flux Ropes in the Earth’s Magnetopause

Global System Modeling

Year	Name	Institution	Title
2016	John Haiducek	University of Michigan	Statistical study of substorm onset times in MHD and observations

Magnetosphere Ionosphere Coupling

Year	Name	Institution	Title
2016	Nadine Kalmoni	University College London	Characterisation of the spatial scales along the Substorm Onset Arc

General

Year	Name	Institution	Title
2016	Thomas Kim	University of Texas at San Antonio / Southwest Research Institute	Resolving M/q on space based ESA-TOF instruments