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 GEM Program Director
- Janet Kozyra
Steering Committee Regular Members (Voting Members)
- Eric Donovan (Chair, 2013 - 2015)
- Mike Wiltberger (Chair-elect, 2015 - 2017)
- Jacob Bortnik (2011 - 2014)
- Margaret Chen (2012 - 2015)
- Robyn Millan (2013 - 2016)
- Drew Turner (2013 - 2016)
- Research Area Coordinators (see below)
- Meeting Organizer (see below)
Steering Committee Liaison Members
- Therese Moretto Jorgensen (Liaison to NSF)
- Mona Kessel (Liaison to NASA)
- Howard Singer (Liaison to NOAA)
- James McCollough (Liaison to AFRL)
- Benoit Lavraud (Liaison to ESA)
- Joe Borovsky (Liaison to SHINE)
- Josh Semeter (Liason to CEDAR)
- Masha Kuznetsova (Liaison to CCMC)
- Laura Morales (Liaison to Argentina)
- Brian Fraser (Liaison to Australia)
- Robert Rankin (Liaison to Canada)
- Chi Wang (Liaison to China)
- Jaejin Lee (Liaison to Korea)
- Xochitl Blanco-Cano (Liaison to Mexico)
- Lou Lee (Liaison to Taiwan)
Meeting Organizer
- Xia Cai, Robert Clauer (2014 - 2018)
Student Represenatives
- Ian Cohen (2013 - 2015)
- Robert Allen (2014 - 2016)
Communications Coordinator
- Peter Chi (2009 - 2014; 2014 - 2019)
Research Areas
Research Area Coordinators
- Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Interaction (SWMI, previously known as Dayside)
- Karl-Heinz Trattner (2009 - 2015)
- Katariina Nykyri (2012 - 2018)
- Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet (MPS, previously known as Tail)
- Larry Kepko (2009 - 2015)
- Andrei Runov (2014 - 2018)
- Inner MAGnetosphere (IMAG, previously known as IMS)
- Anthony Chan (2009 - 2015)
- Scot Elkington (2013 - 2018)
- Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Coupling (MIC)
- Bill Lotko (2011 - 2015)
- Marc Lessard (2012 - 2018)
- Global System Modeling (GSM, previously known as GGCM)
- Slava Merkin (2009 - 2015)
- Frank Toffoletto (2012 - 2018)
Focus Groups
Please see the GEM Focus Groups Section.