GEM Student Forum

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

• - Ian Cohen (UNH)

2013 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

• What is GEM? – Roxanne Katus (UMich)

Regions

• The Sun and Solar Wind (Solar Regions, Solar Cycle, Solar Wind Parameters) - Chao Yue (UCLA)
• The Outer Magnetosphere (Bow Shock, Magentosheath, Tail Lobes, etc.) - David Mackler (SWRI/UTSA)
• The Inner Magnetosphere (Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Plasmasphere) - Quintin Schiller (UCoBoulder)
• The Ionosphere and Thermosphere (Basic Structure) - Ian Cohen (UNH)

Dynamics

• Solar Wind Drivers (CIRs, CMEs, Magnetospheric Coupling, etc.) - Sun-Hee Lee (UAF)
• Geomagnetic Storms - Whitney Lohmeyer (MIT)
• Substorms - Christine Gabrielse (UCLA)
• Magnetospheric Waves - Lauren Blum (UCoBoulder)
• High Latitude Electrodynamics (Electric Fields and Currents) - Ying Zou (UCLA)

Modeling

• GGCM Modeling (MHD Backbone) - Jodie Barker Ream (UCLA)
• Non-MHD Models - Wendy Mata (UCLA)
• CCMC Modeling – Competition Winner - Colin Komar (WVU)
• Data-Model Comparisons - Yanhua Liu (UNH)

Hot Topics

• Van Allen Probes (Science Objectives, Instruments, & Data) (20 min) - Brett Anderson (Dartmouth)
• Connection to CEDAR: Dayside MIT response to transient solar wind, bow shock, and magnetopause phenomena (20 min) - Christina Chu (UAF)
• New GEM Focus Group: Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Convection (20 min) - Nathaniel Frissell (VT)
• New GEM Focus Group: Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (20 min) - Gina DiBraccio (UMich)
• Closing Remarks, David Sibeck and Eric Donovan Talk

2012 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

• What is GEM? - Nathaniel Frissell

• Solar Wind and Magnetosheath - Wendy Mata

• The Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang

• High Latitude Electrodynamics - Xiangning Chu

• Aurora - Steve Kaeppler

• Geomagnetic activity (Substorms, storms, etc.) - Christine Gabrielse

• Magnetometers - Kyle Murphy

• SuperDARN - Gareth Perry

• Data Assimilation - Quintin Schiller

• GGCM Modeling - Xing Meng

• CCMC Modeling - Aaron Schutza

• Entropy in space physics - Xuanye Ma

• Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions - Lauren Blum

• Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures - Christina Chu

• Ionospheric Influence on the Magnetosphere - Binzheng Zhang

• 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