Focus Groups
MAC
2026 – 2030
Magnetosphere-Aurora Connection
Toshi Nishimura, Tetsuo Motoba, Shannon Hill, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt
RX
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
RBSoS
2025-2029
Radiation Belts as a System of Systems
Longzhi Gan, Harriet George, Man Hua, Adam Michael, Luisa Capannolo
MDT
2025 – 2029
Multiscale Dayside Transients and their Effect on Earth’s Magnetosphere
Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vasko, Yuxi Chen, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou, Runyi Liu, David Tonoian
KiTS
2024 – 2028
Kinetic Plasma Processes in the MagnetoTail during Substorm Dynamics
Harry Arnold, Jason Derr, Akhtar Ardakani, Anton Artemyev
COMP
2023 – 2027
Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes
George Clark, Wen Li, Bob Marshall, Dan Gershman, Peter Delamere, Shannon Curry
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
MESO
2022 – 2026
Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations
Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Gareth Perry, Emma Spanswick, Yari Collado-Vega, Bashi Ferdousi
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
Additional information on current and previous Focus Groups can be found on the GEM Wiki Focus Groups page.

