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

2005 Summer Workshop

1. Gang Lu: Auroral Boundaries:Finding Them in Data and Models
2. Tim Killeen: CEDAR 1983-2005
3. C. T. Russell: GeospaceEnvironment Modeling GEM): Not Business as Usual
4. Bob Spiro: Sub-AuroralElectric Fields:An Inner Magnetosphere Perspective
5. John Foster: DASI - Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments
6. Vladimir Papitashvili: e-Science for Geoscience:Virtual Observatories in the Framework of “Electronic Geophysical Year”
7. Michael Wiltberger: Modeling Interactions between the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere & Thermosphere
8. Tomoko Matsuo: Understanding data assimilation:how observations and a model are weaved into the analysis via statistics
9. Robert L McPherron: MI Coupling from a Magnetospheric Point of View
10. Rod Heelis: Magnetosphere Ionosphere Coupling: IonosphericPerspective
11. Aaron Ridley: The tribulations and exaltations in coupling models of the magnetosphere with ionosphere-thermosphere models
12. Hudson et al.: ULF Wave Modelling With A Motive: Effects on Energetic Particles

2004 Summer Workshop

1. Joe Borovsky: The Dependence of the Plasma Sheet on the Solar Wind
2. Cecilia DeLuca: Architecture of the Earth System Modeling Framework
3. G. Siscoe: The Cusp and Its Role In Magnetosphere Dynamics
4. Bob Schunk: The 3-D Extended Ionosphere

2003 Summer Workshop

1. Michele F. Thomsen: Storm-Time Dynamics of the Inner Magnetosphere: Observations of Sources and Transport
2. Robert M. Wingleee: Multi-Fluid/Particle Treatment of Magnetospheric-Ionospheric Coupling During Substorms and Storms
3. Jeff Thayer: M-I Coupling from the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Perspective: Melting the Frozen-In Flux
4. Bob Lysak: Electrodynamic Coupling of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere
5. X. Blanco-Cano: Formation of Planetary Magnetospheres. What can we learn from global hybrid simulations?
6. Vania K.Jordanova: Modeling Geomagnetic Storm Dynamics
7. Scot R. Elkington: Transport in the Radiation Belts and the role of Magnetospheric ULF Waves
8. Terry Onsger: Mass Transport: To the Plasma Sheet – and Beyond!
9. Ludger Scherliess: Data Assimilation for the Space Environment
10. R. G. Roble: The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM)

2002 Summer Workshop

1. Sorin Zaharia: Electrodynamics of M-I Coupling
2. Yongli Wang: Global MHD Simulation in Geospace
3. Jerry Goldstein: Inner Magnetospheric Shielding, Penetration Electric Field, and the Plasmasphere
4. H. Karimabadi: [http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/tutorial/2002Karimabadi/gem.ppt Latest Advances in “Hybrid” Codes & their Application to Global �Magnetospheric Simulations A New Approach to Simulations of Complex Systems]
5. R. A. Wolf: [1]
6. Richard Horne: [2]

GEM Tutorials during 1999-2007

1999-2007 Tutorials