Focus Groups

2025-2029

Radiation Belts as a System of Systems

Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vasko, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou, Runyi Liu, David Tonoian

2025-2029

Magnetic Reconnection: The Key to Understanding Earth’s Space Environment

Yi Qi, John Dorelli, Katherine Goodrich, Chen Shi, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Krishna Khanal

2025 – 2029

Multiscale Dayside Transients and their Effect on Earth’s Magnetosphere

Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vansko, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou

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

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