Organization and People

Current personnel

The terms in the following begin after the summer workshop of the first year and end with the summer workshop of the last year.

NSF Program Manager

• Walker, Ray

Steering Committee Regular Members (Voting Members)

• Donovan, Eric (Chair, 2013 - 2015)
• Wiltberger, Mike (Chair-elect, 2015 - 2017)
• MacDonald, Liz (2011 - 2013)
• Spanswick, Emma (2011 - 2013)
• Bortnik, Jacob (2012 - 2014)
• Chen, Margaret (2013 - 2015)
• Turner, Drew (2014 - 2016)
• Research Area Coordinators (see below)
• Meeting Organizer (see below)

Steering Committee Liaison Members

• Walker, Ray (Liaison to NSF)
• Moretto, Therese (Liaison to NSF)
• Kessel, Ramona (Liaison to NASA)
• Singer, Howard (Liaison to NOAA)
• Borovsky, Joe (Liaison to SHINE)
• Semeter, Josh (Liason to CEDAR)
• Kuznetsova, Masha (Liaison to CCMC)
• Rankin, Robert (Liaison to Canada)
• Blanco-Cano, Xochitl (Liaison to Mexico)
• Lavraud, Benoit (Liaison to Europe)
• Kawano, Hedi (Liaison to Japan)
• Lee, Jaejin (Liaison to the Republic of Korea)
• Lee, Lou (Liaison to Taiwan)
• Wang, Chi (Liaison to China)
• Fraser, Brian (Liaison to Australia)

Meeting Organizer

• Clauer, Bob (2007 -)

Student Represenatives

• Katus, Roxanne (2012 - 2014)
• Cohen, Ian (2013 - 2015)

Communications Coordinator

• Chi, Peter (2009 - 2014)

Research Areas

Research Area Coordinators

• Dayside, including boundary layers and plasma/energy entry. (Dayside)
  • Trattner, Karl-Heinz (2009 - 2015)
  • Nykyri, Katariina (2012 - 2018)
• Inner magnetosphere and storms. (IMS)
  • Chan, Anthony (2009 - 2015)
  • Goldstein, Jerry (2012 - 2018)
• Tail, including plasma sheet and substorms. (Tail)
  • Kepko, Larry (2009 - 2015)
  • Zaharia, Sorin (2012 - 2018)
• Magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling, aurora. (MIC)
  • Lotko, Bill (2011 - 2015)
  • Lessard, Marc (2012 - 2018)
• GGCM
  • Merkin, Slava (2009 - 2015)
  • Toffoletto, Frank (2012 - 2018)

Focus Groups

Please see the GEM Focus Groups Section.