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.

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. See schedule below. Student Representatives: Jenni Kissinger (UCLA) and Nathaniel Frissell (Virginia Tech)

1. What is GEM? - Nathaniel Frissell 2. Sun and Solar Wind, Magnetosheath 3. The Magnetosphere 4. High Latitude Electrodynamics 5. Aurora - Steve Kaeppler? 6. Geomagnetic activity (Substorms, storms, etc.) 7. GGCM Modeling 8. CCMC Modeling 9. Magnetometers – Kyle Murphy? 10. SuperDARN 11. Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions 12. Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures 13. Ionospheric Influence on the Magnetosphere - Oliver Brambles?

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].