SPA-Magnetospheric Physics



Advancing Heliophysics and Space Weather Modeling Through Open Science
Primary Convener:  Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME)
Conveners:  Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Tuija I Pulkkinen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Stefaan Poedts, KU Leuven, Centre for mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics, Leuven, Belgium and Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME)


Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approaches for scientific discovery in Solar Wind-Earth Interactions
Primary Convener:  Dr. Xiangning Chu, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Sai Gowtam Valluri, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dr. Banafsheh Ferdousi, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Matthew R Argall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States


Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Processes
Primary Convener:  Wen Li, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  George B Clark, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Robert Andrew Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder, Ann & H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ryan M. Dewey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States


Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions
Primary Convener:  Kun Zhang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Yuxi Chen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, Brian Walsh, Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States and Hui Zhang, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xiaofei Shi, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES


Earth's Distant Magnetotail and Vicinity: current understanding and new insights from ESCAPADE.
Primary Convener:  Robert J Lillis, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Takuya Hara, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Yusuke Ebihara, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan and Marit Oieroset, Univ California, Berkeley, United States


Electromagnetic Waves, Plasmas, and Energetic Particles : Natural and Controlled Interactions within Geosynchronous Orbit
Primary Convener:  Jean-Francois Ripoll, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France
Conveners:  Jay Albert, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Weichao Tu, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and David Malaspina, University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States


Energetic Particle Precipitation from the Magnetosphere and Their Effects on the Atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Dedong Wang, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners:  Alexander Drozdov, Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, Maria Usanova, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Allison N Jaynes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xingzhi Lyu, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany


From Solar Wind Forcing to Satellite Drag: Bridging Space Weather Across Domains
Primary Convener:  Lipi Mukherjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Juie Shetye, New Mexico State University, Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom
Student/Early Career Convener:  Aparna Venkataramanasastry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States


Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on PolarCap Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Hyomin Kim, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Lindsay Goodwin, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, United States and Allan Weatherwax, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haystack Observatory, Cambridge, United States


Global and MicroScale Consequences of Mesoscale Magnetotail Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Adam Michael, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Anthony Sciola, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States


High-Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics at Mesoscales
Primary Convener:  Viacheslav G Merkin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Convener:  Larry Kepko, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States


Magnetosphere of Jupiter: Multiple Views of a Dynamic System
Primary Convener:  Robert W Ebert, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Sadie Elliott, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, Yasmina M. Martos, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Jayasri Joseph, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  George B Clark, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


Magnetospheres in the Inner Solar System
Primary Convener:  Shaosui Xu, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ryan M. Dewey, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, Yuki Harada, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Moa Persson, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
Student/Early Career Convener:  Charles Bowers, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States


Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System
Primary Convener:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, Yasmina M. Martos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States and Chris Paranicas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


Magnetospheric Physics: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Weichao Tu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Scott England, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States and Hazel M Bain, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States


Moon-Plasma Interactions Throughout the Solar System
Primary Convener:  Sven Simon, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States
Conveners:  Lucas Liuzzo, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, C Michael Haynes, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States and Paul Stefan Szabo, TU Wien, Vienna, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Neil Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES


Multiscale Dynamics and Evolution of Reconnection, Cusp Processes, and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Primary Convener:  Shirsh Soni, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States
Convener:  Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Roger Roglans, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Sarah Henderson, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States


Multiscale Electrodynamics of Subauroral Geospace
Primary Convener:  Anatoly V Streltsov, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States
Convener:  Evgeny V Mishin, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States


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, CA, United States
Conveners:  Harry Arnold, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Anna Tenerani, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, 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


Probing the Radiation Belts and Magnetotail from Low Altitudes: Energetic Particle Precipitation and Magnetosphere–Ionosphere Coupling
Primary Convener:  Xiaojia Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
Conveners:  Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Yuto Katoh, Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan
Student/Early Career Convener:  Grant Killian Stephens, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


Radiation Belt Dynamics: Wave-Particle Interactions and Radiation Belt Modeling
Primary Convener:  Homayon Aryan, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Oleksiy V Agapitov, Space Science Laboratory, UCB, Berkeley, United States, Kyung-Eun Choi, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES and Dr. Man Hua, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China


Ring Current Dynamics, Coupling, and Consequences in the Inner Magnetosphere
Primary Convener:  Longzhi Gan, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Qianli Ma, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Anthony Sciola, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States and Jiabei He, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States


Solar Wind’s Coupling with Magnetospheres and Ionospheres and Its Consequential Phenomena
Primary Convener:  Timo Pitkänen, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China; Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Conveners:  Lauri Holappa, University of Oulu, Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit, Oulu, Finland, Jong-Sun Park, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China and Maria-Theresia Walach, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Student/Early Career Convener:  Skylar R Shaver, West Virgina University, Morgantown, United States


The Low-Energy/Cold Particle Populations and the Systems Science of Geospace
Primary Convener:  Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Maria Usanova1, Alex Glocer2, David Malaspina1 and Eric Donovan3, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States(2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States(3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Student/Early Career Convener:  Artem Smirnov, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany


The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling: Multi-scale Interactions and Space Weather Impacts
Primary Convener:  Gerard J Fasel, Pepperdine University, Natural Science, Malibu, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sun-Hee Lee, Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Nick Omidi, Solana Scientific Inc, Solana Beach, United States


Understanding Radiation Environments at the Earth, the Gas Giants, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Robert Colby Allen, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Sarah K. Vines, Southwest Research Institute, Space Science Division, San Antonio, United States, Alexander Drozdov, Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States and Hong Zhao, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Rosalie Tezak, Auburn University, Auburn, United States