GEM-ULTIMA Forum
The GEM-ULTIMA Forum is held annually during the mini-GEM Workshops in December. The Forum is organized jointly by GEM and the Ultra Large Terrestrial International Magnetometer Array (ULTIMA). At the Forum participants discuss all topics about ground-based magnetometers, such as the operation of magnetometer stations, data distribution, and research using ground-based magnetometer data. The Forum is open to all interested in ground-based magnetometers and their observations.
Below are the presentations made at the GEM-ULTIMA Forum.
2013 GEM-ULTIMA Forum on Ground-based Magnetometers
Sunday, December 8, 2013 San Francisco, California
ULTIMA-GEM Forum on Ground-based Magnetometers
Location: Westin San Francisco Market Street (50 Third Street) Cornell Room (Third Floor)
Part A: ULTIMA Business Meeting (10:30 AM – 1:00 PM)
- Welcome
- Updates from ground-based magnetometer arrays:
- MAGDAS
- AUTUMN
- CARISMA
- MACCS
- AMBER, SAMBA
- McMAC, Falcon, THEMIS
- SEGMA
- DTU Space
- Discussion: ULTIMA operation for global observations
Part B: Science and Community Presentations (1:00 PM – 3:30 PM)
- Jeff Love: Updates on Intermagnet Developments and USGS Projects
- Aki Yoshikawa: Global Cowling Channel Deduced from the MAGDAS Array Observations
- Mark Engebretson: Investigating the IMF Cone Angle Control of Pc3-4 Pulsations Observed on the Ground
- Endawoke Yizengaw: Longitudinal Variability of Equatorial Electrodynamics Using Magnetometer Observations
- Ian Mann: Ground-based and Van Allen Probes Observations of EMIC Waves: Spatial Extent and Ducting
- Peter Chi: Meteorological Characteristics of Storm-time ULF Waves
- Eftyhia Zesta: Remote Sensing of the Plasmapause Boundary Layer (PBL)
2012 GEM-ULTIMA Forum on Ground-based Magnetometers
Date: Sunday, December 2, 2012
Time: 9 AM - Noon
Location: Westin San Francisco Market Street (Civic Room, Second Floor)
Meeting agenda
- Part A: Science Prsentations on Ground Observations
- Combined Use AMPERE and ground magnetometer data (Martin Connors)
- Penetration of Pc5 ULF wave Power to low-L: Implications for Radiation Belt Dynamics (Ian Mann)
- A preview of ULTIMA presenatation on "Array of ground-based magnetometer arrays for monitoring magnetospheric and ionospheric perturbations on a global scale" (Hedi Kawano)
- Part B: ULTIMA Reports and Meeting
- DTU Space Magnetometer Array (Claudia Stolle, New Member)
- SEGMA Array Updates (Mirko Piersanti)
- MAGDAS Array Updates (George Maeda)
- CARISMA Array Updates (Ian Mann)
- MACCS Array Updates (Mark Engebretson)
- AMBER Array and AMBER-MESAURE-SAMBA Joint Project Updates (Endawoke Yizengaw)
- SAMBA Array Updates (Eftyhia Zesta)
- McMAC/Falcon Array Updates (Peter Chi)
- Updates by other ULTIMA members
- Discussion on collaborative studies
- Motions by Members
2011 GEM-ULTIMA Forum on Ground-based Magnetometers
Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011
Location: Westin San Francisco Market Street
Session A. Community Presentations on Ground Magnetometers: Including Stations, Data, and Observations
- Determination of the true ionospheric currents and conductances from combined ground- and space-based observations (pdf) by Antti Pulkkinnen (NASA GSFC, USA)
- Relationship between SSW and Lunar-tidal ionospheric current enhancement obtained by MAGDAS data (pdf) by Kiyohumi Yumoto for Yosuke Yamazaki (Kyushu University, Japan)
- INTERMAGNET 1-sec Data (pdf) by Jennifer Gannon for Jeffrey Love (USGS, USA)
Session B. ULTIMA Reports and Operation
- ULTIMA Welcome (pdf) by Kiyohumi Yumoto (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Status reports from magnetometer arrays:
- AAIMNet by Brian Fraser (University of Newcastle, Australia)
- AUTUMN by Martin Connors (Athabasca University, Canada)
- CARISMA by Ian Mann (University of Alberta, Canada)
- MAGDAS (pdf) by Kiyohumi Yumoto (Kyushu University, Japan)
- McMAC & Falcon (pdf) by Peter Chi (UCLA, USA)
- SAMBA by Eftyhia Zesta (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
- SEGMA (pdf) by Mirko Piersanti for Massimo Vellante (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
