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.

Archived Student Workshop Material

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 Student Poster Competition Winners

Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Year Student Institution Year Name Institution 2016 Terry Liu University of California, Los Angeles Inner Magnetosphere Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet Global System Modeling Magnetosphere Ionosphere Coupling General