GEM Focus Groups

Introduction

The hallmark of GEM workshops is its community-led workshop-style sessions, carried out through focus groups. Interested in applying to run a focus group and are not sure how to do it? Are you currently running a focus group and need ideas for how to achieve the workshop-style in your focus groups? Advice from previous focus group leaders on proposing and running a focus group, updated in October 2019, is available here.

Active Focus Groups

• (GIC) Understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances in geospace for hazard analysis on geomagnetically induced currents (2022 - 2026; Xueling Shi, Dogacan Su Ozturk, Mark Engebretson, Zhonghua Xu, E. Joshua Rigler; RA: Primary – GSM, Secondary – MIC)
• (MESO) Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations (2022 - 2026; Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Gareth Perry, Emma Spanswick, and Vincent Ledvina; RA: Primary – MPS, Secondary – MIC).
• (MPEC) Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Systems (2022 - 2026; Dogacan Su Ozturk, Dong Lin, Yiqun Yu, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Stephen Kaeppler; RA: Primary – MIC, Secondary – GSM)
• (COMP) Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes (2023 - 2027; George Clark, Wen Li, Bob Marshall, Dan Gershman, Peter Delamere, Shannon Curry; RA: Primary – SWMI, Secondary – MPS)
• (KiTS) Kinetic Plasma Processes in the Magnetotail during Substorm Dynamics (2024 - 2028; Harry Arnold, Jason Derr, Akhtar Ardakani, Anton Artemyev; RA: Primary – MPS, Secondary – GSM)
• (MDT) Multiscale Dayside Transients and their Effect on Earth's Magnetosphere (2025 - 2029; Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vasko, Yuxi Chen, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou, Runyi Liu, David Tonoian; RA: Primary - SWMI)
• (RX) Magnetic Reconnection: The Key to Understanding Earth's Space Environment (2025-2029; Yi Qi, John Dorelli, Katherine Goodrich, Chen Shi, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Krishna Khanal; RA: Primary - SWMI, Secondary - GSM)
• (RBSoS) Radiation Belts as a System of Systems (RB-SoS) (2025-2029; Harriet George, Man Hua, Adam Michael, Luisa Capannolo; RA: Primary - IMAG)
• (MAC) Magnetosphere-Aurora Connection (MAC) (2026-2030; Toshi Nishimura, Tetsuo Motoba, Shannon Hill, and Bea Gallardo-Lacourt; RA: Primary – MIC, Secondary – MPS and IMAG)

(RA: Research Area).

Standing Resource Groups

• Modeling Methods and Validation (2020 - present; Alexa Halford, Josh Rigler, Qusai Al Shidi, Huayue Chen)
• Machine Learning (2024 - present; Hyunju Connor, Bashi Ferdousi, Xiangning Chu, Matthew Argall, Valluri Sai Gowtam)

Past Focus Groups

• (CP) The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics (2020 - 2025; Gian Luca Delzanno, Natalia Buzulukosva, Barbara Giles, Roger Varney, and Joe Borovsky; RA: Primary – IMAG, Secondary – None)
• (SCIMM) Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling (2020 - 2025; Cristian Ferradas, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik, and Qianli Ma; RA: Primary – IMAG, Secondary – MIC)
• Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory (2018 - 2024; Tori Wilder, Shan Wang, Michael Shay, and Anton Artemyev; RA: Primary – GSM, Secondary – None)
• System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling (2019 - 2024; Hong Zhao, Lauren Blum, Sasha Ukhorskiy, and Xiangrong Fu; RA: Primary – IMAG, Secondary – None)
• Particle Heating and Thermalization in Collisionless Shocks in the MMS Era (2019 - 2024; Lynn Wilson III, Li-Jen Chen, Katherine Goodrich, and Ivan Vasko; RA: Primary – SWMI, Secondary – None)
• Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere (2017 - 2023; Christine Gabrielse, Matina Gkioulidou, Slava Merkin, Drew Turner, David Malaspina, and Adam Michael; RA: Primary – MPS, Secondary – IMAG)
• Interhemispheric Approaches to Understand M-I Coupling (IHMIC) (2018 - 2023; Hyomin Kim, Robert Lysak, and Tomoko Matsuo; RA: Primary – MIC, Secondary – IMAG)
• 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System (IEMIT) (2017 - 2022; Hyunju Connor, Dogacan Ozturk, Gang Lu, and Bin Zhang; RA: Primary – MIC, Secondary – GSM)
• Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M³I²) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics (2016 - 2021; Shasha Zou, Barbara Giles, and Rick Chappell; RA: Primary – MIC, Secondary – None)
• Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction (2016 - 2021; Heli Hietala, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Gabor Toth, Andrew Dimmock, and Ying Zou; RA: Primary – SWMI, Secondary – GSM)
• ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications (2016 - 2021; Michael Hartinger, Kazue Takahashi, Alexander Drozdov, Maria Usanova, Brian Kress, and Xueling Shi; RA: Primary – GSM, Secondary – None)
• Modeling Methods and Validation (2016 - 2019; Katherine Garcia-Sage, Rob Redmon, Mike Liemohn, Lutz Rastaetter; RA: GSM)
• Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms (2015 - 2019; Toshi Nishimura, Kyle Murphy, Emma Spanswick, and Jian Yang; RA: MPS)
• Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances (2015 - 2019; Chih-Ping Wang, Andrei Runov, David Sibeck, Viacheslav Merkin, and Yu Lin; RA: MPS, GSM, SWMI)
• Geospace Systems Science (2014 - 2018; Joe Borovsky, Bill Lotko, Vadim Uritsky, and Juan Valdivia; Coordinators with CEDAR: Aaron Ridley and Josh Semeter; RA: GSM)
• Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions (2014 - 2018; Yiqun Yu, Colby Lemon, Michael Liemohn, and Jichun Zhang; RA: IMAG)
• Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (2014 - 2018; Jay Albert, Wen Li, Steve Morley, and Weichao Tu; RA: IMAG)
• Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (2013 - 2017; Paul Cassak, Andrei Runov, Yi-Hsin Liu, and Brian Walsh; RA: GSM)
• Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection (2013 - 2017; Joseph Baker, Michael Ruohoniemi, Stanislav Sazykin, Peter Chi, and Mark Engebretson; RA: IMAG, MIC)
• Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions (2012 - 2016; Vassilis Angelopoulos, Pontus Brandt, John Lyon, and Frank Toffoletto; RA: MPS)
• Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures (2012 - 2016; Hui Zhang, Q.-G. Zong, Michael Ruohoniemi, and David Murr; RA: SWMI)
• Metrics and Validation (2011 - 2015; T. Guild, L. Rastaetter, H. Singer; RA:GSM)
• The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM (2011 - 2015; R. Schunk, R. Chappell, D. Welling; RA: MIC, GSM)
• Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques (2011 - 2015; E. Donovan, E. MacDonald, R. Millan; RA: MIC)
• Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling (2010 - 2014; Y. Shprits, S. Elkington, J. Bortnik, C. Kletzing; RA:IMAG)
• The Magnetosheath (2010 - 2014; S. Petrinec, K. Nykyri; RA:SWMI)
• Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013; J. Goldstein and J. Borovsky; RA:IMS)
• Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes (2008 - 2013; V. Angelopoulos, S. Ohtani, K. Shiokawa; RA:Tail)
• Modes of Solar WInd-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer (2008 - 2013; B. McPherron, L. Kepko; RA:Tail)
• Dayside FACs and Energy Deposition (2010 - 2012; D. Knipp, G. Crowley, S. Eriksson, R. Lopez; RA:Dayside, MIC)
• Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012; S. Zaharia, S. Sazykin, B. Lavraud; RA: IMS, Tail)
• Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011, RA: MIC, IMS)
• Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011, RA: IMS, see also FG9 google email group)
• Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006 - 2011, RA: Tail)
• Cusp Physics (2006-2010, RA: Dayside)
• GGCM Metrics and Validation (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
• GGCM Modules and Methods (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
• Foreshock, Bowshock, Magnetosheath (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
• Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
• MIC Electrodynamics (2003 - 2008, RA: MIC)

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