GEM Student Forum
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Welcome to the GEM Student Forum
Check back here for more updates and announcements for GEM students.
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Current GEM Student Representatives:
2013-2014: Ian Cohen, University of New Hampshire, ian.cohen@unh.edu [1]
2014-2015: Robert Allen, University of Texas-San Antonio/Southwest Research Institute, robert.allen@swri.org [2]
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.
Archived Student Workshop Material
2014 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials
2013 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials
Regions
- 10:15-10:30am: The Sun and Solar Wind (Solar Regions, Solar Cycle, Solar Wind Parameters) - Chao Yue (UCLA)
- 10:30-10:45am: The Outer Magnetosphere (Bow Shock, Magentosheath, Tail Lobes, etc.) - David Mackler (SWRI/UTSA)
- 10:45-11:00am: The Inner Magnetosphere (Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Plasmasphere) - Quintin Schiller (UCoBoulder)
- 11:15-11:30am: The Ionosphere and Thermosphere (Basic Structure) - Ian Cohen (UNH)
Dynamics
- 11:30-11:45am: Solar Wind Drivers (CIRs, CMEs, Magnetospheric Coupling, etc.) - Sun-Hee Lee (UAF)
- 11:45-12:00pm: Geomagnetic Storms - Whitney Lohmeyer (MIT)
- 1:30-12:45pm: Substorms - Christine Gabrielse (UCLA)
- 1:45-2:00pm: Magnetospheric Waves - Lauren Blum (UCoBoulder)
- 2:00-2:15pm: High Latitude Electrodynamics (Electric Fields and Currents) - Ying Zou (UCLA)
Modeling
- 2:15-2:30pm: GGCM Modeling (MHD Backbone) - Jodie Barker Ream (UCLA)
- 2:30-2:45pm: Non-MHD Models - Wendy Mata (UCLA)
- 2:45-3:00pm: CCMC Modeling – Competition Winner - Colin Komar (WVU)
- 3:00-3:15pm: Data-Model Comparisons - Yanhua Liu (UNH)
Hot Topics
- 3:40-4:00pm: Van Allen Probes (Science Objectives, Instruments, & Data) (20 min) - Brett Anderson (Dartmouth)
- 4:00-4:20pm: Connection to CEDAR: Dayside MIT response to transient solar wind, bow shock, and magnetopause phenomena (20 min) - Christina Chu (UAF)
- 4:20-4:40pm: New GEM Focus Group: Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Convection (20 min) - Nathaniel Frissell (VT)
- 4:40-5:00pm: New GEM Focus Group: Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (20 min) - Gina DiBraccio (UMich)
5:00pm: Closing Remarks, David Sibeck and Eric Donovan Talk
2012 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials
10:30-10:45am: What is GEM? - Nathaniel Frissell
10:45-11:00am: Solar Wind and Magnetosheath - Wendy Mata
11:00-11:20am: The Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang
11:20-11:40am: High Latitude Electrodynamics - Xiangning Chu
11:40-12:00pm: Aurora - Steve Kaeppler
12:00-12:15pm: Geomagnetic activity (Substorms, storms, etc.) - Christine Gabrielse
1:30-1:45pm: Magnetometers - Kyle Murphy
1:45-2:00pm: SuperDARN - Gareth Perry
2:00-2:15pm: Data Assimilation - Quintin Schiller
2:15-2:30pm: GGCM Modeling - Xing Meng
2:30-2:45pm: CCMC Modeling - Aaron Schutza
3:15-3:30pm: Entropy in space physics - Xuanye Ma
3:30-3:45pm: Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions - Lauren Blum
4:00-4:15pm: Ionospheric Influence on the Magnetosphere - Binzheng Zhang
4:15-4:30pm: David Sibeck (GEM Steering Committee Chair) addresses students
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
