GEM Focus Groups

GEM Planning Activities

The following proposals have been submitted to the GEM Steering Committee for new Focus Groups starting in Summer 2011:

• Multi-scale Electrodynamics of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions by Anatoly Streltsov, Joseph Huba, and Kristina Lynch
• Metrics and Validation by Masha Kuznetsova, Aaron Ridley, Tim Guild, Lutz Rastaetter, and Howard Singer
• The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma - Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM by Bob Schunk, Rick Chappell, and Dan Welling
• Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques by Eric Donovan, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Robyn Millan
• Magnetospheric Response to Transient Solar Wind Features by Hui Zhang, Q.-G. Zong, George Parks, and Aaron Ridley
• Magnetic Reconnection Modules in Global Modeling of the Magnetosphere by Brian Sullivan

Active Focus Groups

• Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006 - 2011, RA: Tail)
• Cusp Physics (2006-2010, RA: Dayside)
• Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012, RA: IMS, Tail)
• Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011, RA: IMS, see also FG9 google email group)
• Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011, RA: MIC, IMS)
• Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013, RA: IMS)
• Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes (2008 - 2013, RA: Tail)
• Modes of Solar WInd-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer (2008 - 2013, RA: Tail)
• Dayside FACs and Energy Deposition (2010 - 2012, RA: Dayside)
• Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling (2010 - 2014, RA: IMS)
• The Magnetosheath (2010 - 2014, RA: Dayside)

(RA: Research Area)

Past Focus Groups

• GGCM Metrics and Validation (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
• GGCM Modules and Methods (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
• Foreshock, Bowshock, Magnetosheath (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
• Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
• MIC Electrodynamics (2003 - 2008, RA: MIC)

(RA: Research Area)