Focus Groups

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.

2018 – 2024

Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory

Rick Wilder, Shan Wang, Michael Shay, and Anton Artemyev.

2019 – 2024

Particle Heating and Thermalization in Collisionless Shocks in the MMS Era

Lynn Wilson III, Li-Jen Chen, Katherine Goodrich, and Ivan Vasko

2020 – 2025

The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics

Gian Luca Delzanno, Natalia Buzulukosva, Barbara Giles, Roger Varney, and Joe Borovsky

2020 – 2025

Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling

Cristian Ferradas, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik, and Qianli Ma

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

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

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

2023 – 2027

Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes

George Clark, Wen Li, Bob Marshall, Dan Gershman, Peter Delamere, Shannon Curry

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.