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AGU25: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics



SH001
Across the Heliospheric Boundaries and Regions: In-situ Observations and Modeling as Tools for Probing the Outer Heliosphere
Primary Convener:  Marc Zachary Kornbleuth, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Parisa Mostafavi, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States and Lingling Zhao, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jonathan Gasser, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States


SH002
Advances in Understanding the Innermost Heliosphere
Primary Convener:  Kristoff W Paulson, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, United States; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
Conveners:  Tatiana Niembro Hernandez, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, United States; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States and Adam Szabo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


SH003
Beyond the Sun-Earth Line: Solar Orbiter, VIGIL, and Future Solar Polar Missions
Primary Convener:  Don Hassler, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Solar System Science & Exploration Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Lisa Upton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


SH004
Collisionless Shocks in Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas and their Effects on Planetary Magnetospheres.
Primary Convener:  Savvas Raptis, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Hadi Madanian, Epex Scientific, Richmond, United States, Heli Hietala, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom and Drew L. Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Domenico Trotta, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom


SH005
Development and use cases of reusable Artificial Intelligence infrastructure in Heliophysics
Primary Convener:  Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States


SH006
Exploring the Connections between the Sun, Outer Heliosphere, and Local Interstellar Medium Including First-Light Results from NASA’s IMAP Mission
Primary Convener:  Drew L Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Christina O Lee, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Domenico Trotta, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and Nehpreet Kaur Walia, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan


SH007
Exploring Space Weather Impacts Throughout the Heliosphere using Advanced Energetic Particle and Dosimetry Instrumentation
Primary Convener:  Donald Thomsen, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
Conveners:  Kerry Lee, Aerospace Corporation, League City, United States, Georgia Adair de Nolfo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Richard A Leske, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


SH008
Exploring the engineering challenges facing space flight missions in heliophysics, translating recent anecdotes to lessons learned, and providing discussion on the strategies and best practices improve future space flight experiments
Primary Convener:  Brad Williams, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Esayas Shume, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Asal Naseri, Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, United States and Reinhard H W Friedel, NASA HQ, Lancaster, United States


SH009
From Initiation to Impact: Understanding CMEs as Drivers of Space Weather
Primary Convener:  Anshu Kumari, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
Conveners:  Bhargav Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India, Pete Riley, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, United States and K Emilia J Kilpua, University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
Student/Early Career Convener:  Prateek Mayank, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India


SH010
Fundamental Mechanisms in Highly Collisionless Plasmas: Wave-Particle Interactions, Turbulence, Structures, and Instabilities with Applications to Heliospheric, Magnetospheric, and Laboratory Plasma Physics
Primary Convener:  Dr. Francesca Di Mare, PhD, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Katariina Nykyri, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Laboratory, 673, Greenbelt, United States and Collin Robert Brown, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yu-Lun Liou, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States


SH011
Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere
Primary Convener:  Chen Shi, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, United States
Conveners:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Olga Panasenco, Advanced Heliophysics Inc., Pasadena, United States and Marco C M Velli, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States


SH012
Galactic Cosmic Ray Transport in the Heliosphere: From the Interstellar Medium to the Solar Atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Federico Fraschetti, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Veronica Bindi, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Physics and Astronomy, Honolulu, HI, United States, Masayoshi Kozai, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Tokyo, Japan and Jamie Sue Rankin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Chingam Fong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong


SH013
High-Energy Solar Investigations Through Next-Generation Remote Sensing: Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Samuel Moore, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, Juliana Therese Vievering, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and P. S. Athiray, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States


SH014
Interior Dynamics to Surface Magnetism: Probing the Full Sun with Observations from the Sun-Earth Line Augmented with New Data from the Poles, the Far Side, and Other Vantage Points
Primary Convener:  Ruizhu Chen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Convener:  Lisa Upton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


SH015
Intermittent Structures and Wave Modes in Plasmas: From Turbulent Dynamics to Particle Transport
Primary Convener:  Lingling Zhao, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Gary P Zank, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Department of Space Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States and Michael joseph Starkey, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xingyu Zhu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


SH016
Monitoring and Forecasting Space and Terrestrial Weather with Ground-Based Measurements of Cosmic Rays
Primary Convener:  Viacheslav M Sadykov, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  XIaochun He, Georgia State University, Physics & Astronomy, Atlanta, United States, Nikola Veselinović, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Akeem Babatunde Rabiu, National Space Research and Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria; African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria
Student/Early Career Convener:  Enosh Herath Mudiyanselage, Georgia State University, Physics & Astronomy, Atlanta, United States


SH017
Multiscale Description of Solar Wind Dynamics: Quasilinear Theory, Simulations, and Observations
Primary Convener:  Peter H Yoon, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Shaaban Mohammed Shaaban, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar and Kristopher G Klein, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States


SH018
MULTISCALE processes in planetary, space and astrophysics: turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and shocks
Primary Convener:  Yan Yang, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Marc Swisdak1, Prof. William H Matthaeus2 and Michael A. Shay2, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, United States(2)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States


SH019
Observations and modeling of turbulence in the solar photosphere, chromosphere,and low corona
Primary Convener:  Rohit Chhiber, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliospheric Science Division, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, Takeru Ken Suzuki, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Rahul Sharma, Northumbria University, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom


SH020
Prediction of Solar Transient Events: Data-Driven, Physics-Based, and Hybrid Approaches
Primary Convener:  Talwinder Singh, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Berkay Aydin, Georgia State University, Computer Science, Atlanta, United States and Viacheslav M Sadykov, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sahanaj Banu, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States


SH021
Radio Observations of Plasma Dynamics from Sun to Earth
Primary Convener:  Lindsay Victoria Goodwin, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Peijin Zhang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, Anshu Kumari, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jason Earl Kooi, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Anshu Kumari, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


SH022
Radio Solar and Heliospheric Observations, Instruments, and Modelling for Space Weather Research, Applications, and Forecasting
Primary Convener:  Bernard V Jackson, University of California San Diego, Astronomy and Astrophysics, La Jolla, CA, United States
Convener:  Mario Mark Bisi, United Kingdom Research and Innovation - Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Didcot, United Kingdom


SH023
Revealing the structure of the corona and the young solar wind: new imaging capabilities
Primary Convener:  Dr. Dimitrios Vassiliadis, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Space Weather Observations (SWO) Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners:  Craig E. DeForest, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Sarah E Gibson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Nathan D Miles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States


SH024
SOHO: Thirty Years of Solar and Heliospheric Science
Primary Convener:  Jack Ireland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Data Analysis Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Muller, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, Anik De Groof, European Space Agency, ESAC, Madrid, Spain and Pål Brekke, Norwegian Space Agency, Oslo, Norway
Student/Early Career Convener:  Laura Rodriguez Garcia, European Space Agency / ESAC, Madrid, Spain


SH025
Solar and Heliospheric Physics: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Hazel M Bain, University of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Hazel M Bain, CU/CIRES NOAA/SWPC, Boulder, United States, Scott England, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States and Weichao Tu, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Eduardo Perez Macho, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil


SH026
Solar Energetic Particles in the Inner Heliosphere and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Samuel Hart, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Athanasios Kouloumvakos, The Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, Rachael Jo Filwett, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and Lulu Zhao, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Gabriel Domingo Muro, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


SH027
Solar Flare Particle Acceleration: Observations, Models, and Multi-mission Synergies
Primary Convener:  Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Meriem Alaoui, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Sophie Musset, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands; Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States and Sijie Yu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Meiqi Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States


SH028
Solar Flares in the High-Resolution, High-Cadence Era: Observations, Modelling and future prospects
Primary Convener:  Dr. Graham Stewart Kerr, PhD, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Inglis, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States and Gianna Cauzzi, INAF-Ossevatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hannah Collier, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland


SH029
Solar Orbiter: Solar-Heliospheric Connections and First Out-of-the-Ecliptic Observations
Primary Convener:  David Lario, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Fernando Carcaboso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, United States, Astrid Veronig, University of Graz, Institute of Physics, Graz, Austria and Don Hassler, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States


SH030
Space and Heliophysics Science Undergraduate and Graduate Education Resources
Primary Convener:  Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States
Convener:  Mark B. Moldwin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


SH031
The Future of the International Sunspot Number
Primary Convener:  William Dean Pesnell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Laure Lefevre, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Greg Kopp, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Theodosios Chatzistergos, INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy


SH032
The Long Way: Heliosphere Modeling with Operations in Mind
Primary Convener:  Lulu Zhao, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn Whitman, KBR/NASA JSC, Space Radiation Analysis Group, Houston, United States, Eric T Adamson, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States and M. Leila Mays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States


SH033
The role of low-latency data for space weather and future human exploration
Primary Convener:  Cecilia Mac Cormack, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Phillip C Chamberlin, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, MD, United States and Yaireska M Collado-Vega, NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Space Weather Observations, Lanham, United States


SH034
Toward a Unified Understanding of Particle Acceleration and Transport throughout the Heliosphere
Primary Convener:  Xiaocan Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Mitsuo Oka, UC Berkeley-Space Sciences Lab, Berkeley, United States and Drew L. Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Dr. Jeongbhin Seo, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


SH035
Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and non-thermal particles in space plasmas
Primary Convener:  Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Physics, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, Nuno Loureiro, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, United States and Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States


SH036
Understanding Space Weather for Human and Robotic Exploration to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Gina A DiBraccio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Yaireska M Collado-Vega, NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Space Weather Observations, Lanham, United States, Phillip C Chamberlin, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Christina O Lee, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States


SH037
Velocity Distributions and Kinetic Wave Activity in Space Plasma: Theory, Simulation, and Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Leon Ofman, CUA/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt MD, United States
Conveners:  Lan Jian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Mihailo Martinovic, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States and Viacheslav M Sadykov, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Dr. Yogesh ., PhD, NASA GSFC/CUA, Greenbelt, United States


SH038
Why We Need to Keep Funding Space-Weather Research!
Primary Convener:  Mario Mark Bisi, United Kingdom Research and Innovation - Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Didcot, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Larisza D Krista, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Krista Hammond, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom


SH039
Solar and Heliospheric Physics Student and Early Career GeoBurst Session
Primary Convener:  Eduardo Perez Macho, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Convener:  Hazel M Bain, CU/CIRES NOAA/SWPC, Boulder, United States


SM007
From the Sun to the Earth: Exploring The Impacts of Plasma Waves and Instabilities on Solar-Terrestrial Interactions
Primary Convener:  Hava Turkakin, Utica University, Physics, Utica, United States
Conveners:  Eun-Hwa Kim, Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Syed Ayaz, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Sciences and CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sung Jun Noh, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


SM023
Physics of Current Sheets in Planetary Magnetospheres and Solar Wind: Plasma Kinetics, Magnetic Reconnection, and Particle Acceleration
Primary Convener:  Xin An, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Conveners:  Anna Tenerani, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, United States, Anthony Sciola, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Ivan Vasko, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Physics, Richardson, TX, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sergei Kamaletdinov, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States