Focus Groups

Focus Group	Dates	Leaders	Research Area
Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory	2018 – 2024	Rick Wilder, Shan Wang, Michael Shay, and Anton Artemyev	Primary – GSM, Secondary – None
System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling	2019 – 2024	Hong Zhao, Lauren Blum, Sasha Ukhorskiy, and Xiangrong Fu	Primary – IMAG, Secondary – None
Particle Heating and Thermalization in Collisionless Shocks in the MMS Era	2019 – 2024	Lynn Wilson III, Li-Jen Chen, Katherine Goodrich, and Ivan Vasko	Primary – SWMI, Secondary – None
The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics	2020 – 2025	Gian Luca Delzanno, Natalia Buzulukosva, Barbara Giles, Roger Varney, and Joe Borovsky	Primary – IMAG, Secondary – None
Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling	2020 – 2025	Cristian Ferradas, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik, and Qianli Ma	Primary – IMAG, Secondary – MIC
Understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances in geospace for hazard analysis on geomagnetically induced currents	2022 – 2026	Xueling Shi, Dogacan Su Ozturk, Mark Engebretson, Zhonghua Xu, E. Joshua Rigler	Primary – GSM, Secondary – MIC
Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations (MESO)	2022 – 2026	Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Gareth Perry, Emma Spanswick, Yari Collado-Vega, and Bashi Ferdousi	Primary – MPS, Secondary – MIC
Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Systems	2022 – 2026	Dogacan Su Ozturk, Dong Lin, Yiqun Yu, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Stephen Kaeppler	Primary – MIC, Secondary – GSM
Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes	2023 – 2027	George Clark, Wen Li, Bob Marshall, Dan Gershman, Peter Delamere, Shannon Curry	Primary – SWMI, Secondary – MPS

Additional information on current and previous Focus Groups can be found on the GEM Wiki Focus Groups page.