GEM Focus Groups

1. GGCM Metrics and Validation (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
2. GGCM Modules and Methods (2005 - 2010, RA: GGCM)
3. Foreshock, Bowshock, Magnetosheath (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
4. Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006 - 2011, RA: Tail)
5. Component versus Anti-parallel Reconnection (2004 - 2009, RA: Dayside)
6. Cusp Physics (2006-2010, RA: Dayside)
7. MIC Electrodynamics (2003 - 2008, RA: MIC)
8. Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012, RA: IMS, Tail)
9. Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011, RA: IMS, see also FG9 google email group)
10. Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011, RA: MIC, IMS)
11. Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013, RA: IMS)
12. Substorm Expansion Onset (2008 - 2013, RA: Tail)
13. Modes of Solar WInd-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer (2008 - 2013, RA: Tail)

(RA: Research Area)

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Joint GEM-SHINE Sessions

1. Solar-Wind Drivers or Internal Magnetospheric Processes
2. Creation and Propagation of CMEs and Plasmoids: Loss of Equilibrium and Subsequent Evolution
3. Small-Scale Structure in the Solar Wind and Its Effect on Earth
4. Is there a Need for More-Detailed Solar-Wind Models
5. What Determines When Reconnection Turns On? Chromosphere,Corona, Solar Wind, Magnetopause, and Magnetotail
6. SEPs from Heliosphere to Magnetosphere
7. Comparing the Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in Various Environments
8. Perpendicular Ion Heating: Observations at Earth and theory at the Sun