GEM Focus Groups

Active Focus Groups

Metrics and Validation (2011 - 2015; M. Kuznetsova, A. Ridley, T. Guild, L. Rastaetter, H. Singer; RA:GSM)
The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM (2011 - 2015; R. Schunk, R. Chappell, D. Welling; RA: MIC, GSM)
Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques (2011 - 2015; E. Donovan, E. MacDonald, R. Millan; RA: MIC)
Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions (2012 - 2016; Vassilis Angelopoulos, Pontus Brandt, John Lyon, and Frank Toffoletto; RA: MPS)
Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures (2012 - 2016; Hui Zhang, Q.-G. Zong, Michael Ruohoniemi, and David Murr; RA: SWMI)
Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (2013 - 2017; Paul Cassak, Andrei Runov, and Homa Karimabadi; RA: GSM)
Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection (2013 - 2017; Joseph Baker, Michael Ruohoniemi, Stanislav Sazykin, Peter Chi, and Mark Engebretson; RA: IMAG, MIC)
Geospace Systems Science (2014 - 2018; Joe Borovsky, Bill Lotko, Vadim Uritsky, and Juan Valdivia; Coordinators with CEDAR: Aaron Ridley and Josh Semeter; RA: GSM)
Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions (2014 - 2018; Yiqun Yu, Colby Lemon, Michael Liemohn, and Jichun Zhang; RA: IMAG)
Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (2014 - 2018; Jay Albert, Wen Li, Steve Morley, and Weichao Tu; RA: IMAG)

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Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling (2010 - 2014; Y. Shprits, S. Elkington, J. Bortnik, C. Kletzing; RA:IMAG)
The Magnetosheath (2010 - 2014; S. Petrinec, K. Nykyri; RA:SWMI)
Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013; J. Goldstein and J. Borovsky; RA:IMS)
Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes (2008 - 2013; V. Angelopoulos, S. Ohtani, K. Shiokawa; RA:Tail)
Modes of Solar WInd-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer (2008 - 2013; B. McPherron, L. Kepko; RA:Tail)
Dayside FACs and Energy Deposition (2010 - 2012; D. Knipp, G. Crowley, S. Eriksson, R. Lopez; RA:Dayside, MIC)
Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012; S. Zaharia, S. Sazykin, B. Lavraud; RA: IMS, Tail)
Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011, RA: MIC, IMS)
Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011, RA: IMS, see also FG9 google email group)
Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006 - 2011, RA: Tail)
Cusp Physics (2006-2010, RA: Dayside)
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)

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