2026 GEM Workshop Agenda

Acronyms:

Rooms:
CT/RI: Connecticut and Rhode Island Rooms
VT/NH: Vermont and New Hampshire Rooms
Mass: Massachusetts Room

Focus Groups:
GIC: Understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances in geospace for hazard analysis on geomagnetically induced currents
MESO: Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations
MPEC: Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Systems
COMP: Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes
KiTS: Kinetic Plasma Processes in the MagnetoTail during Substorm Dynamics
MDT: Multiscale Dayside Transients and their Effect on Earth’s Magnetosphere
RX: Magnetic Reconnection: The Key to Understanding Earth’s Space Environment
RBSoS: Radiation Belts as a System of Systems
MAC: Magnetosphere-Aurora Connection

Resource Groups:
MLGEM: Machine Learning Geospace Environment Modeling
MMV: Modeling Methods and Validation

Sunday, July 12, 2026 – Student Day and Welcome Reception

TimeLocationAgendaWho
7:00-17:00Registration/Check-in
7:00-8:00Port of CallStudent Breakfast 
8:30-9:00CT/RIGEM Welcome + Ice BreakerErika + Maria
9:00-9:20CT/RISolar Wind + Magnetosphere Coupling Youra Shin
9:20-9:40CT/RISpace PlasmasPoshan Belbase
9:40-10:00CT/RINightside MagnetosphereNitya Agarwala
10:00-10:20BREAK
10:20-10:40CT/RIInner MagnetosphereJorge Romero
10:40-11:00CT/RIMagnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere CouplingAri Gottesman
11:00-11:20BREAK
11:20-11:40CT/RIAurorasVincent Ledvina
11:40-12:00CT/RIModelingPedro Oliveira
12:00-13:30Port of CallStudent Lunch
13:30-13:50CT/RIData AnalysisKawther Rouabhi
13:50-15:00CT/RISoftware/Tool Development Group Introduction + Tracks
15:00-15:30BREAK
15:30-16:00Tracks (see below)
CT/RITrack 1: Career (invited)
CumberlandTrack 2: Comparative MagnetospheresAlexander Cushen
LincolnTrack 3: Software/Tool Development Group Tables
16:00-16:30CT/RIGEM Logistics, Lightning Tutorial PostersErika + Maria
17:00-18:30Port of CallWelcome Reception

Monday, July 13, 2026

TimeLocationAgenda
7:00-17:00Registration/Check-in
8:00-10:00VT/NHMonday Joint Plenary #1 
Toshi Nishimura
Drew Turner
10:00-10:30BREAK
10:30-12:00Monday Breakout #1
VT/NHMPEC
CT/RIRBSoS
MassMLGEM
12:00-13:30VT/NHGEMEE Lunch
13:30-15:00Monday Breakout #2
VT/NHMLGEM/MPEC/GIC/MAC
CT/RIMESO
MassMDT
15:00-15:30BREAK
15:30-17:00Monday Breakout #3
VT/NHMAC
CT/RIRX
MassGIC
18:00-20:30VT/NHStudent Dinner

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

TimeLocationAgenda
7:00-17:00Registration/Check-in
8:00-10:00VT/NHTuesday Joint Plenary #1 
Agency Talks
10:00-10:30BREAK
10:30-12:00Tuesday Breakout #1
VT/NHMAC
CT/RIGIC/GMAG
MassKiTS/RX
12:00-13:30Lunch (NASA office hours: Mass)
13:30-15:00Tuesday Breakout #2
VT/NHRX/MDT
CT/RIMPEC
MassRBSoS
15:00-15:30BREAK
15:30-17:00Casco Bay HallPoster Session #1
17:00-18:00MassNASA office hours

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

TimeLocationAgenda
7:00-17:00Registration/Check-in
8:00-10:00VT/NHWednesday Joint Plenary #1 
Bea Gallardo-Lacourt
SBCCI: Community Led Community Building
10:00-10:30BREAK
10:30-12:00Wednesday Breakout #1
VT/NHMAC
CT/RICOMP
MassGIC
12:00-13:30VT/NHStudent Election Lunch
13:30-15:00Wednesday Breakout #2
VT/NHMLGEM/MPEC/GIC/MAC
CT/RIMDT
MassMESO
15:00-15:30BREAK
15:30-17:00Wednesday Breakout #3
VT/NHRBSoS/MPEC
CT/RIKiTS
MassCOMP/MDT
18:00-20:30Casco Bay HallBanquet

Thursday, July 16, 2026

TimeLocationAgenda
7:00-17:00Registration/Check-in
8:00-10:00VT/NHThursday Joint Plenary #1 
Adam Michael
EC Talks: Kat Davidson, Longzhi Gan
JGR Editors
10:00-10:30BREAK
10:30-12:00VT/NHSBCCI – Sarah Hokanson
12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00Thursday Breakout
VT/NHKiTS/MESO/MAC/RBSoS
CT/RIMPEC
MassCOMP
15:00-15:30BREAK
15:30-17:00Casco Bay HallPoster Session #2
17:30-19:30CT/RISC Meeting Dinner

Friday, July 17, 2026

TimeLocationAgenda
7:00-17:00Registration/Check-in
8:00-10:00VT/NHFriday Joint Plenary #1 
Sasha Ukhorskiy
Mike Shumko
10:00-10:30BREAK
10:30-12:00Friday Breakout #1
VT/NHMAC/MPEC/MESO
CT/RIRBSoS
MassRX
12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00Friday Breakout #2
VT/NHKiTS/MESO/MAC
CT/RICOMP/RX
MassGIC/MMV
15:00End of Workshop