Welcome! GEM Student Icebreaker Fill out the ice breaker sheet Complete at least 10 of the 15 questions Turn it in by 9:55 Get entered in a drawing for a prize $5 Gift card for coffee Thanks Introductions

Some Important Info. GEM Poster Competition Don’t forget to register for the GEM student poster competition! Prize?  http://goo.gl/NbvrE Fall AGU Poster Competition AGU SPA Outstanding Student Paper Award The number of awardees in each section depends on the number of students signed up When you submit an abstract you will be asked if you want to participate We were asked to come up with some prize ideas Introductions

What is GEM? Roxanne M. Katus University of Michigan GEM Student Representative Student Day June 16, 2013 Procedures… Question time after talks. Fill out student tutorials judging sheet! Introductions… Diana, Shan and Shuo

What is GEM? GEM: Geospace Environment Modeling Works on techniques for describing, understanding and predicting how the sun interacts with the near Earth space environment Why? because this is OUR environment, an environment which affects PEOPLE. If we understand our environment, we have the ability to make things better for everyone Now, this explains what we do and why we do it… but how do we go about getting it done? Definition

NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Funding NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) NSF: National Science Foundation AGS: Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Structure

NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Purpose NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Concentration: Earth’s magnetosphere Coupling to the atmosphere and solar wind Investigating the dynamic and structural properties of geospace Goal: Develop, Validate, and compare analytic, first-principle, numerical, and data-based models of the geospace environment GEM GEM is tasked with understanding everything between the sun and the upper atmosphere of the Earth. But this is a large task and even this needs to be broken down into more manageable research areas. Structure

NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Similar Programs Sister organizations CEDAR: Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions SHINE: Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) GEM CEDAR SHINE Structure

Research Areas GGCM: Geospace General Circulation Model NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) GGCM: Geospace General Circulation Model Goal: Develop, Validate, and compare models of the geospace environment GEM CEDAR SHINE Inner Magnetosphere & Storms (IMS) Tail GGCM Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) Dayside Structure

Focus Groups NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) GEM CEDAR SHINE Inner Magnetosphere & Storms (IMS) Tail GGCM Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (MIC) Dayside Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 minutes Modes of Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions Metrics and Validation The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma –Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection The Magnetosheath Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures Focus Groups (FG) are at the heart of GEM In fact, you will find that the schedule is structured around active focus groups. From this structure, we can see some overarching characteristics of the GEM organization. Structure

GEM Focus Groups Structure # Name Years RA 1 Plamasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions 2008-2013 IMS 2 Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 minutes Tail 3 Modes of Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer 4 Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling 2010-2014 5 The Magnetosheath Dayside 6 Metrics and Validation 2011-2015 GGCM 7 The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma – Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM MIC, GGCM 8 Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques MIC 9 Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions 2012-2016 10 Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures 11 Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere 2013-2017 12 Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection IMS, MIC Proposed by the community. Each year ~2-3 start and end. Aiming to support ~12 active Must include deliverable Exist within a Research Area And will last No more than 5 years Structure

GEM Characteristics Community initiated: Steering Committee Comprised of community scientists Controls everything except the funding Focus: Centered on the Earth’s magnetosphere Coupling to the atmosphere and solar wind Dynamic properties of geospace Strategy: Focus groups Focus on particular aspects of space environment Ultimate Goal: GGCM with predictive capabilities Structure

GEM is a Community Not just an organization or program GEM Communications Writing Meetings Personal Interaction GEMstone GEM Messenger GEM Wiki Summer Workshop Mini-GEM at AGU Collaborations Friendships Share Ideas GEMstone Newsletter Annual summary of GEM activity Focuses on the June meeting Summarizes activities of focus groups Special issues for closing focus groups GEM’s most detailed historical archive Available at GEMwiki: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ GEM Messenger Brief Electronic Communications Email majordomo@igpp.ucla.edu with the message “subscribe gem” Aggregated at heliophysics.blogspot.com GEMwiki One-stop for all latest GEM information GEM Leadership Contact Information Forums for focus groups Forums for students Archive of past newsletters, tutorials, and documents http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ Communications

GEM is a Community GEMstone GEM Communications Writing Meetings Personal Interaction GEMstone GEM Messenger GEM Wiki Summer Workshop Mini-GEM at AGU Collaborations Friendships Sharing a vision GEMstone Newsletter Annual summary of GEM activity Focuses on the June meeting Summarizes activities of focus groups Special issues for closing focus groups GEM’s most detailed historical archive Available at GEMwiki: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ GEMstone Newsletter Annual summary of GEM activity Focuses on the June meeting Summarizes activities of focus groups Special issues for closing focus groups GEM’s most detailed historical archive Available at GEMwiki: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ Communications

GEM is a Community GEM Messenger GEM Communications Writing Meetings Personal Interaction GEMstone GEM Messenger GEM Wiki Summer Workshop Mini-GEM at AGU Collaborations Friendships Sharing a vision GEM Messenger Brief Electronic Communications Email majordomo@igpp.ucla.edu with the message “subscribe gem” Aggregated at heliophysics.blogspot.com GEM Messenger Brief Electronic Communications Email majordomo@igpp.ucla.edu with the message “subscribe gem” Aggregated at heliophysics.blogspot.com Communications

GEM is a Community GEM Communications Writing Meetings GEMwiki Personal Interaction GEMstone GEM Messenger GEM Wiki Summer Workshop Mini-GEM at AGU Collaborations Friendships Sharing a vision GEMwiki One-stop for all latest GEM information GEM Leadership Contact Information Forums for focus groups Forums for students Archive of past newsletters, tutorials, and documents http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ GEMwiki One-stop for all latest GEM information Forums for focus groups, students http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ Communications

GEM is a Community GEM: Everyone works together This meeting is your opportunity to: Ask questions Meet with senior scientist Show them what you do Learn how people outside of your institution do things Learn about career opportunities Students work with senior scientists, senior scientists work with students. Informal setting Go out to dinner or lunch with them Look to collaborate Communications

Summer Workshop Student Tutorial Day Plenary Tutorials – Student invited speaker Focus Group Workshops Poster Sessions Ask questions, share your ideas, present Reception: Tonight at 6 (Garden Terrace) Student Forum: Monday at 5:45 (Garden Terrace) Student Dinner: Monday at 6:30 (Garden Terrace) Banquets: Wednesday at 5:30 (Viceroy) Plenary tutorials Senior specialists will be providing over talks each morning to the entire community. Each year, the students get to invite a speaker… this year it is R. Friedal on Friday This year, students also have the opportunity to introduce each of the daily tutorial speakers. Highlights

Thank you! Title: What is GEM? Author: Roxanne Katus Questions? Comments? Special thanks to: Nathaniel Frissell and Jenni Kissinger Download this and other student tutorials at the GEMwiki Student Forum: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki Thanks