GEM Student Forum

Welcome to the GEM Student Forum

Check back here for more updates and announcements for GEM students.

Are you looking to know the latest GEM-Student news and announcements? Join the GEM-Students Google Group.

Current GEM Student Representatives:

2013-2014: Ian Cohen, University of New Hampshire ian.cohen@unh.edu[1]

2014-2015: Robert Allen, University of Texas-San Antonio/Southwest Research Institute robert.allen@swri.org [2]

Graduate Student Opportunities

For graduate students looking for postdoc positions or other opportunities, please visit the SPOReS website. The site collects job posting from a number of different sources and maintains a calendar of opportunities and due dates.

Archived Student Workshop Material

2013 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

• 8:00 - 9:30am: Student Breakfast in Salon B
• 9:30-9:55am: Introductions and Ice-Breaker
• 9:55 AM: Get everyone settled in seats
• 10:00-10:15am: What is GEM? – Roxanne Katus (UMich)

Regions

• 10:15-10:30am: The Sun and Solar Wind (Solar Regions, Solar Cycle, Solar Wind Parameters) - Chao Yue (UCLA)
• 10:30-10:45am: The Outer Magnetosphere (Bow Shock, Magentosheath, Tail Lobes, etc.) - David Mackler (SWRI/UTSA)
• 10:45-11:00am: The Inner Magnetosphere (Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Plasmasphere) - Quintin Schiller (UCoBoulder)
• 11:15-11:30am: The Ionosphere and Thermosphere (Basic Structure) - Ian Cohen (UNH)

Dynamics

• 11:30-11:45am: Solar Wind Drivers (CIRs, CMEs, Magnetospheric Coupling, etc.) - Sun-Hee Lee (UAF)
• 11:45-12:00pm: Geomagnetic Storms - Whitney Lohmeyer (MIT)

12:00-12:15pm: Introduction of New Student Representative Candidates 12:15-1:30pm: Lunch (Garden Terrace)

• 1:30-12:45pm: Substorms - Christine Gabrielse (UCLA)
• 1:45-2:00pm: Magnetospheric Waves - Lauren Blum (UCoBoulder)
• 2:00-2:15pm: High Latitude Electrodynamics (Electric Fields and Currents) - Ying Zou (UCLA)

Modeling

• 2:15-2:30pm: GGCM Modeling (MHD Backbone) - Jodie Barker Ream (UCLA)
• 2:30-2:45pm: Non-MHD Models - Wendy Mata (UCLA)
• 2:45-3:00pm: CCMC Modeling – Competition Winner - Colin Komar (WVU)
• 3:00-3:15pm: Data-Model Comparisons - Yanhua Liu (UNH)

3:15-3:40pm: Break (25 minute) Hot Topics

• 3:40-4:00pm: Van Allen Probes (Science Objectives, Instruments, & Data) (20 min) - Brett Anderson (Dartmouth)
• 4:00-4:20pm: Connection to CEDAR: Dayside MIT response to transient solar wind, bow shock, and magnetopause phenomena (20 min) - Christina Chu (UAF)
• 4:20-4:40pm: New GEM Focus Group: Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere – Ionosphere Convection (20 min) - Nathaniel Frissell (VT)
• 4:40-5:00pm: New GEM Focus Group: Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (20 min) - Gina DiBraccio (UMich)

5:00pm: Closing Remarks, David Sibeck and Eric Donovan Talk

2012 GEM Workshop Student Tutorials

All students attending GEM are encouraged to participate in the student workshop. We look forward to having some great student tutorials and discussion. The tutorials will be held in Salon A. See schedule below.

2012 Student Representatives: Jenni Kissinger (UCLA) and Nathaniel Frissell (Virginia Tech)

7:30-9:30am: Student Breakfast (Hoaglund room?)

10:00-10:30am: Introductions and ice-breaker

10:30-10:45am: What is GEM? - Nathaniel Frissell

10:45-11:00am: Solar Wind and Magnetosheath - Wendy Mata

11:00-11:20am: The Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang

11:20-11:40am: High Latitude Electrodynamics - Xiangning Chu

11:40-12:00pm: Aurora - Steve Kaeppler

12:00-12:15pm: Geomagnetic activity (Substorms, storms, etc.) - Christine Gabrielse

12:20-1:20pm: Lunch (1 hour)

1:30-1:45pm: Magnetometers - Kyle Murphy

1:45-2:00pm: SuperDARN - Gareth Perry

2:00-2:15pm: Data Assimilation - Quintin Schiller

2:15-2:30pm: GGCM Modeling - Xing Meng

2:30-2:45pm: CCMC Modeling - Aaron Schutza

2:45-3:15pm: Break (Half an hour)

3:15-3:30pm: Entropy in space physics - Xuanye Ma

3:30-3:45pm: Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions - Lauren Blum

3:45-4:00pm: Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures - Christina Chu

4:00-4:15pm: Ionospheric Influence on the Magnetosphere - Binzheng Zhang

4:15-4:30pm: David Sibeck (GEM Steering Committee Chair) addresses students

2011 CEDAR-GEM Joint Workshop Student Tutorials

Topics

• What is CEDAR? - Roger Varney
• What is GEM? - Jenni Kissinger
• Introduction to the Magnetosphere - Weichao Tu
• Introduction to the Ionosphere - Julie Feldt
• Geomagnetism and Geomagnetic Indices - Matina Gkioulidou
• High Latitude Electrodynamics - Nathaniel Frissell
• Convection in the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere - Feifei Jiang
• Aurora: Magnetospheric View - Christine Gabrielse
• Aurora: Ionospheric View - Carl Andersen
• Geomagnetic Storms - Lauren Blum
• Ion Outflow: R Redmond
• Applications of Incoherent Scatter Radar to MI Coupling - Hassen Akbari
• Introduction to Sounding Rockets - Steve Kaeppler
• CubeSats - Alex Crew
• Ionospheric Models - Levan Lomidze
• GEM Models - Matt Gilson

2010 Workshop Student Tutorials

Topics

• Sun and solar wind- Mike Klida
• The terrestrial magnetosphere - Christine Gabrielse
• Plasma convection in magnetosphere - Jenni Kissinger
• High latitude electrodynamics - Rick Wilder
• Geomagnetic activity - Brian Walsh
• MHD models - Asher Pembroke
• Kinetic models - Roxanne Katus
• CCMC tutorial - Dave Berrios
• Dayside magnetopause reconnection - Ray Fermo
• Near Earth magnetosphere - Dmitriy Subbotin
• Tail dynamics: Substorms, Sawtooth events, SMCs - Matina Gkioulidou
• Future Missions - Alex Crew

Thank you to all who gave student tutorials. If anyone has any questions please contact Jenni Kissinger, [jkissinger@ucla.edu].