2016 GEM-CEDAR Workshop

June 19-24, 2016

Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Below is a fluid list of speakers in GEM sessions provided by the GEM Workshop Coordinator and Focus Groups. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the nature of the GEM Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

All other information about the 2016 Joint GEM-CEDAR Workshop can be found at the GEM Meeting Coordinator Website and the CEDARwiki 2016 Workshop Page.

Monday, June 20

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Welcome by Josh Semeter, Mike Wiltberger, Students, and Therese Moretto Jorgensen

• Tutorial GC#1 by Roger Varney -- Geospace electrodynamics

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#2 by Jesper Gjerloev -- Multiscale MI coupling

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection + Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions

• Topic: Impact of large-scale or transient electric fields on inner magnetosphere populations, and the role of particle precipitation of magnetospheric origin on the ionospheric electrodynamics
• Chairs: Stanislav Sazykin, Yiqun Yu

1. Joe Huba : Storm-time electrodynamics of the ionosphere/plasmasphere system using SAMI3/RCM
2. Richard Selesnick: Control of the inner electron radiation belt by large-scale electric fields
3. Sam Califf: Van Allen Probes observations of subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) electric fields
4. Scott Thaller: Van Allen Probes investing of the night/dusk asymmetries of the plasmapause and dawn-dusk electric field, a synoptic study
5. Carlos Martinis: Coincident observations of all-sky images and Van Allen Probes
6. Raluca Ilie: TBD
7. Margaret Chen: TBD
8. Yiqun Yu: A new ionospheric precipitation module coupled with RAM-SCB in geospace general circulation model

Wednesday, June 22

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #1 by James Smith -- System science tutorial

• GEM Tutorial #2 by Marc Lessard -- Aurora and ionosphere/thermosphere coupling

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #3 by Maria Usanova -- Student invited tutorial

Thursday, June 23

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#3 by Phil Erickson -- Cold plasma effect

• Science Highlight GC#4 -- MI precursor to earthquakes

• Science Highlight GC#5 -- Ionospheric reconnection

• Science Highlight GC#6 -- LWS TR&T

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#4 by Shasha Zou -- TBD

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

Substorm event presentation & discussion

• Larry Lyons
• Larry Kepko
• Tony Lui

Short contributed talks

• Dick Wolf: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and interchange stability in a growth-phase arc
• Tony Lui: BBF-substorm connection
• Jian Yang: RCM perspective of growth phase bubbles and streamers
• Eric Donovan: Evolution and mapping of substorm onset arc
• Shin Ohtani: PBI-polar cap flow connection
• Jiang Liu: Plasma sheet--a source of both R1 and R2 Birkeland currents

1600-1800: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

Substorm event presentation & discussion

• Larry Lyons
• Larry Kepko
• Tony Lui

Short contributed talks

• Dick Wolf: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and interchange stability in a growth-phase arc
• Tony Lui: BBF-substorm connection
• Jian Yang: RCM perspective of growth phase bubbles and streamers
• Eric Donovan: Evolution and mapping of substorm onset arc
• Shin Ohtani: PBI-polar cap flow connection
• Jiang Liu: Plasma sheet--a source of both R1 and R2 Birkeland currents

Friday, June 24

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #4 by Bob Lysak -- ULF wave modeling

• GEM Tutorial #5 by Mike Hartinger -- ULF wave observations

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #6 by Hui Zhang -- SWMI