Organization and People

Current personnel

The terms in the following begin after the summer workshop of the first year and end with the summer workshop of the last year.

NSF Program Manager

• Walker, Ray

Steering Committee Regular Members (Voting Members)

• Sibeck, David (Chair, 2011 - 2013)
• Donovan, Eric (Chair-elect, 2013 - 2015)
• MacDonald, Liz (2011 - 2013)
• Spanswick, Emma (2011 - 2013)
• Bortnik, Jacob (2012 - 2014)
• Chen, Margaret (2013 - 2015)
• Research Area Coordinators (see below)
• Meeting Organizer (see below)

Steering Committee Liaison Members

• Walker, Ray (Liaison to NSF)
• Moretto, Therese (Liaison to NSF)
• Kessel, Ramona (Liaison to NASA)
• Singer, Howard (Liaison to NOAA)
• Borovsky, Joe (Liaison to SHINE)
• Semeter, Josh (Liason to CEDAR)
• Kuznetsova, Masha (Liaison to CCMC)
• Rankin, Robert (Liaison to Canada)
• Blanco-Cano, Xochitl (Liaison to Mexico)
• Lavraud, Benoit (Liaison to Europe)
• Kawano, Hedi (Liaison to Japan)
• Lee, Jaejin (Liaison to the Republic of Korea)
• Lee, Lou (Liaison to the Republic of China)
• Wang, Chi (Liaison to China)
• Fraser, Brian (Liaison to Australia)

Meeting Organizer

• Clauer, Bob (2007 -)

Student Represenatives

• Frissell, Nathaniel (2011 - 2013)
• Katus, Roxanne (2012 - 2014)

Communications Coordinator

• Chi, Peter (2009 - 2014)

Research Areas

Research Area Coordinators

• Dayside, including boundary layers and plasma/energy entry. (Dayside)
  • Trattner, Karl-Heinz (2009 - 2015)
  • Nykyri, Katariina (2012 - 2018)
• Inner magnetosphere and storms. (IMS)
  • Chan, Anthony (2009 - 2015)
  • Goldstein, Jerry (2012 - 2018)
• Tail, including plasma sheet and substorms. (Tail)
  • Kepko, Larry (2009 - 2015)
  • Zaharia, Sorin (2012 - 2018)
• Magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling, aurora. (MIC)
  • Lotko, Bill (2011 - 2015)
  • Lessard, Marc (2012 - 2018)
• GGCM
  • Merkin, Slava (2009 - 2015)
  • Toffoletto, Frank (2012 - 2018)

Focus Groups

Active Focus Groups and Their Research Areas (RA)

• Near Earth Magnetosphere: plasma, fields, and coupling (2007 - 2012; S. Zaharia, S. Sazykin, B. Lavraud; RA: IMS, Tail)
• Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (2008 - 2013; J. Goldstein and J. Borovsky; RA:IMS)
• Substorm Expansion Onset (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)
• Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling (2010 - 2014; Y. Shprits, S. Elkington, J. Bortnik, C. Kletzing; RA:IMS)
• The Magnetosheath (2010 - 2014; S. Petrinec, K. Nykyri; RA:Dayside)
• Metrics and Validation (2011 - 2015; M. Kuznetsova, A. Ridley, T. Guild, L. Rastaetter, H. Singer; RA:GGCM)
• The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM (2011 - 2015; R. Schunk, R. Chappell, D. Welling; RA: MIC, GGCM)
• Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques (2011 - 2015; E. Donovan, E. MacDonald, R. Millan; RA: MIC)
• Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions (2012 - 2016; Pontus Brandt, John Lyon, and Frank Toffoletto; RA: Tail)
• 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: Dayside)

Past Focus Groups

• GGCM Metrics and Validation (2005 - 2010; M. Kusnetzova & A. Ridley; RA: GGCM)
• GGCM Modules and Methods (2005 - 2010; J. Dorelli, M. Shay, B. Sullivan; RA: GGCM)
• Cusp Physics (2006 - 2010; K-H. Trattner; RA: Dayside)
• Foreshock, bowshock, magnetosheath (2004 - 2009; N. Omidi; RA: Dayside)
• Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection (2004 - 2009; J. Berchem; RA: Dayside)
• MIC Electrodynamics (2003 - 2008; J. Semeter & B. Lotko; RA: MIC)
• Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (2006-2011; S. Wing, J. Johnson, and A. Otto; RA: Tail)
• Space Radiation Climatology (2006 - 2011; P. O'Brien and G. Reeves; RA: IMS)
• Diffuse Auroral Precipitation (2006 - 2011; R. Thorne and J. Borovsky; RA: MIC, IMS)