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.

Call for Speakers – GEM Student Tutorials

GEM Student Day June 16, 2013 Snowmass, Colorado

Submission deadline: Friday, March 15, 2013

The GEM student representatives are currently accepting submissions for the 2013 student day tutorials. The meeting will be held on June 16, 2013 in Snowmass Colorado.

Tutorials must focus on the listed topics at an introductory level. The list of tutorial topics is provided below. If you will be attending the meeting and would like to present a tutorial, please submit your name, student status (year, anticipated degree, institution and advisor) and the title of the talk that you would like to give. Please include a second choice tutorial topic if you have one. Submissions should be sent to: Nathan Frissell <nafrissell@vt.edu> and Roxanne Katus <rkatus@umich.edu>.

Tutorial requests must be received by Friday, March 15, 2013. Speakers will be chosen based on qualifications and demographics. Acceptance notifications will be sent by April 1, 2013.

Student Tutorial Topics

• The Sun and Solar Wind (Solar Regions, Solar Cycle, Solar Wind Parameters) [15 min]
• The Outer Magnetosphere (Bow Shock, Magentosheath, Tail Lobes, etc.) [15 min]
• The Inner Magnetosphere (Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Plasmasphere) [15 min]
• The Ionosphere and Thermosphere (Basic Structure) [15 min]
• Solar Wind Drivers (CIRs, CMEs, Magnetospheric Coupling, etc.) [15 min]
• Geomagnetic Storms [15 min]
• Substorms [15 min]
• Magnetospheric Waves [15 min]
• High Latitude Electrodynamics (Electric Fields and Currents) [15 min]
• GGCM Modeling (MHD Backbone) [15 min]
• Non-MHD Models [15 min]
• Data-Model Comparisons [15 min]
• Van Allen Probes (Science Objectives, Instruments, & Data) [20 min]
• Dayside MIT Response to solar wind, bow shock, magnetopause phenomena [20 min]
• Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (New GEM Focus Group) [20 min]

Call for Applications for GEM Student Representative

Application deadline: May 1, 2013

GEM graduate students are invited to apply for the position of student representative for the 2013-2015 term. There are always two GEM student representatives with overlapping terms.

Interested students should have previously attended at least one GEM summer workshop, be graduate students actively researching in a GEM field, and have at least two years left before finishing their degree. The GEM student representatives are responsible for organizing the student tutorial day at the GEM summer workshop, representing students at the GEM steering committee meetings, and coordinating/facilitating other professional and social activities for the GEM student community.

To apply, please submit your name, student status (year/anticipated degree/institution/advisor) and one or two paragraphs describing your vision and qualifications for serving as the GEM student representative. This information will be distributed at the GEM 2013 student tutorial day on June 16, 2013. The new representative will be selected by vote during the GEM 2013 Summer Workshop.

Please submit all applications to Nathaniel Frissell <nafrissell@vt.edu> and Roxanne Katus <rkatus@umich.edu> by June 1, 2013.

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 16, 2013

2013 Student Representatives: Nathaniel Frissell (Virginia Tech) and Roxanne Katus (University of Michigan)

2013 Summer Workshop student tutorial topics have been decided. Please see the announcement at the top of the page for topics and instructions on how to volunteer to be a tutorial speaker.

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. The tutorials will be held in Salon A. See schedule below.

2012 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

4:15-4:30pm: David Sibeck (GEM Steering Committee Chair) addresses students

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].