Focus Groups
RB
2019 – 2024
System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling
Hong Zhao, Lauren Blum, Sasha Ukhorskiy, and Xiangrong Fu.
RX
2018 – 2024
Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory
Rick Wilder, Shan Wang, Michael Shay, and Anton Artemyev.
BSH
2019 – 2024
Particle Heating and Thermalization in Collisionless Shocks in the MMS Era
Lynn Wilson III, Li-Jen Chen, Katherine Goodrich, and Ivan Vasko
CP
2020 – 2025
The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics
Gian Luca Delzanno, Natalia Buzulukosva, Barbara Giles, Roger Varney, and Joe Borovsky
SCIMM
2020 – 2025
Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling
Cristian Ferradas, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik, and Qianli Ma
GIC
2022 – 2026
Understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances in geospace for hazard analysis on geomagnetically induced currents
Xueling Shi, Dogacan Su Ozturk, Mark Engebretson, Zhonghua Xu, E. Joshua Rigler
MESO
2022 – 2026
Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations
Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Gareth Perry, Emma Spanswick, Yari Collado-Vega, and Bashi Ferdousi
MPEC
2022 – 2026
Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Systems
Dogacan Su Ozturk, Dong Lin, Yiqun Yu, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Stephen Kaeppler
COMP
2023 – 2027
Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes
George Clark, Wen Li, Bob Marshall, Dan Gershman, Peter Delamere, Shannon Curry
KiTS
2024 – 2028
Kinetic Plasma Processes in the MagnetoTail during Substorm Dynamics
Harry Arnold, Jason Derr, Akhtar Ardakani, Anton Artemyev
Additional information on current and previous Focus Groups can be found on the GEM Wiki Focus Groups page.