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

• Baker, Kile

Steering committee Regular Members

• Raeder, Jimmy (Chair, 2006 - 2009)
• Omidi, Nick (2008 - 2011) [Dayside]
• Ergun, Robert (2006 - 2009) [MIC]
• Onsager, Terry (2007 - 2010) [GGCM]
• Spasojevic, Maria (2007 - 2010) [IMS]

Steering Committee Liaison Members

• Baker, Kile (Liaison to NSF)
• Blanco-Cano, Xochitl (Liaison to Mexico)
• Donovan, Eric (Liaison to Canada)
• Fraser, Brian (Liaison to Australia)
• Hesse, Michael (Liaison to CCMC)
• Kawano, Hedi (Liaison to Japan)
• Kessel, Ramona (Liaison to NASA)
• Lavraud, Benoit (Liaison to Europe)
• Moldwin, Mark (Liaison to DASI)
• Moretto, Therese (Liaison to NSF)
• Russell, Chris (Liaison to SHINE)
• Shepherd, Simon (Liaison to CEDAR)
• Singer, Howard (Liaison to NOAA)

Student Represenatives

• Garcia, Katherine (2008 - 2009, BU)
• Welling, Dan (2007 - 2008, Michigan)

Communications Coordinator

• Russell, Christopher (UCLA)

Workshop Organizers

• Clauer, Bob (2007 - 2010)
• Toffoletto, Frank (2001 - 2006)
• Cantu, Umbe (2001 - 2007)

Research Areas

Research Area Coordinators

• Dayside, including boundary layers and plasma/energy entry. (Dayside)
  • David Sibeck (2006 - 2009)
  • John Dorelli (2006 - 2012)
• Inner magnetosphere and storms. (IMS)
  • Mike Liemohn (2006 - 2009)
  • Rainer Friedel (2006 - 2012)
• Tail, including plasma sheet and substorms. (Tail)
  • Frank Toffoletto (2006 - 2009)
  • Mike Henderson (2006 - 2012)
• Magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling, aurora. (MIC)
  • Hughes, Jeff (2003 - 2009)
  • David Murr (2006 - 2012)
• GGCM
  • Mike Wiltberger (2006 - 2009)
  • Stan Sazykin (2006 - 2012)

Focus Groups

Focus Groups and their research areas (RA)

1. GGCM Metrics and Validation (2005 - 2010, M. Kusnetzova & A. Ridley, RA: GGCM)
2. GGCM Modules and Methods (2005 - 2010, M. Shay & J. Dorelli, RA: GGCM)
3. Foreshock, bowshock, magnetosheath (2004 - 2009, N. Omidi, RA: Dayside)
4. Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006-2011, S. Wing, J. Johnson, and A. Otto, RA: Tail)
5. Component versus Anti-parallel Reconnection (2004 - 2009, J. Berchem, RA: Dayside)
6. Cusp Physics (2006 - 2010, K-H. Trattner, RA: Dayside)
7. MIC Electrodynamics (2003 - 2008, J. Semeter & B. Lotko, RA: MIC)
8. Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012, S. Zaharia, S. Sazykin, B. Lavraud, RA: IMS, Tail)
9. Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011, P. O'Brien and G. Reeves, RA: IMS)
10. Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011, R. Thorne and J. Borovsky, RA: MIC, IMS)
11. Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013, J. Goldstein and J. Borovsky, RA:IMS)
12. Substorm Expansion Onset (2008 - 2013, V. Angelopoulos, S. Ohtani, K. Shiokawa, RA:Tail)
13. Modes of Solar WInd-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer (2008 - 2013, B. McPherron, L. Kepko, RA:Tail)