GEM Focus Groups

The hallmark of GEM workshops is its community-led workshop-style sessions, carried out through focus groups. Interested in applying to run a focus group and are not sure how to do it? Are you currently running a focus group and need ideas for how to achieve the workshop-style in your focus groups? Advice from previous focus group leaders on proposing and running a focus group, updated in October 2019, is available here.

Active Focus Groups

• Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms (2015 - 2019; Toshi Nishimura, Kyle Murphy, Emma Spanswick, and Jian Yang; RA: MPS)
• Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances (2015 - 2019; Chih-Ping Wang, Andrei Runov, David Sibeck, Viacheslav Merkin, and Yu Lin; RA: MPS, GSM, SWMI)
• Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M³I²) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics (2016 - 2020; Vince Eccles, Shasha Zou, and Barbara Giles; RA: MIC)
• ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications (2016 - 2020; Michael Hartinger, Kazue Takahashi, Alexander Drozdov, Maria Usanova, and Brian Kress; RA: GSM)
• Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction (2016 - 2020; Heli Hietala, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Gabor Toth, Andrew Dimmock, and Ying Zou; RA: SWMI, GSM)
• Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere (2017 - 2021: Christine Gabrielse, Matina Gkioulidou, Slava Merkin, Drew Turner, and David Malaspina; RA: MPS (primary), IMAG (secondary))
• 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System (IEMIT) (2017 - 2021: Hyunju Connor, Haje Korth, Gang Lu, and Bin Zhang; RA: MIC, GSM)
• Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory (2018 - 2022: Rick Wilder, Shan Wang, Michael Shay, and Anton Artemyev; RA: GSM)
• Interhemispheric Approaches to Understand M-I Coupling (IHMIC) (2018 - 2022: Hyomin Kim, Robert Lysak, and Tomoko Matsuo; RA: IMAG, MIC, GSM)
• FG: System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling (2019 - 2023: Hong Zhao, Lauren Blum, Sasha Ukhorskiy, and Xiangrong Fu; RA: IMAG)
• FG: Particle Heating and Thermalization in Collisionless Shocks in the MMS Era (2019 - 2023: Lynn Wilson III, Li-Jen Chen, Katherine Goodrich, and Ivan Vasko; RA: SWMI)

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Standing Resource Group

• Modeling Methods and Validation (Team TBD)

Past Focus Groups

• Geospace Systems Science (2014 - 2018; Joe Borovsky, Bill Lotko, Vadim Uritsky, and Juan Valdivia; Coordinators with CEDAR: Aaron Ridley and Josh Semeter; RA: GSM)
• Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions (2014 - 2018; Yiqun Yu, Colby Lemon, Michael Liemohn, and Jichun Zhang; RA: IMAG)
• Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (2014 - 2018; Jay Albert, Wen Li, Steve Morley, and Weichao Tu; RA: IMAG)
• Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (2013 - 2017; Paul Cassak, Andrei Runov, Yi-Hsin Liu, and Brian Walsh; RA: GSM)
• Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection (2013 - 2017; Joseph Baker, Michael Ruohoniemi, Stanislav Sazykin, Peter Chi, and Mark Engebretson; RA: IMAG, MIC)
• Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions (2012 - 2016; Vassilis Angelopoulos, Pontus Brandt, John Lyon, and Frank Toffoletto; RA: MPS)
• Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures (2012 - 2016; Hui Zhang, Q.-G. Zong, Michael Ruohoniemi, and David Murr; RA: SWMI)
• Metrics and Validation (2011 - 2015; T. Guild, L. Rastaetter, H. Singer; RA:GSM)
• The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM (2011 - 2015; R. Schunk, R. Chappell, D. Welling; RA: MIC, GSM)
• Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques (2011 - 2015; E. Donovan, E. MacDonald, R. Millan; RA: MIC)
• Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling (2010 - 2014; Y. Shprits, S. Elkington, J. Bortnik, C. Kletzing; RA:IMAG)
• The Magnetosheath (2010 - 2014; S. Petrinec, K. Nykyri; RA:SWMI)
• Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013; J. Goldstein and J. Borovsky; RA:IMS)
• Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes (2008 - 2013; V. Angelopoulos, S. Ohtani, K. Shiokawa; RA:Tail)
• Modes of Solar WInd-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer (2008 - 2013; B. McPherron, L. Kepko; RA:Tail)
• Dayside FACs and Energy Deposition (2010 - 2012; D. Knipp, G. Crowley, S. Eriksson, R. Lopez; RA:Dayside, MIC)
• Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012; S. Zaharia, S. Sazykin, B. Lavraud; RA: IMS, Tail)
• Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011, RA: MIC, IMS)
• Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011, RA: IMS, see also FG9 google email group)
• Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006 - 2011, RA: Tail)
• Cusp Physics (2006-2010, RA: Dayside)
• GGCM Metrics and Validation (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
• GGCM Modules and Methods (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
• Foreshock, Bowshock, Magnetosheath (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
• Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
• MIC Electrodynamics (2003 - 2008, RA: MIC)

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