SPA-Magnetospheric Physics



Advances in Understanding and Modeling the Ring Current and Its Coupling with Other Particle Populations
Primary Convener:  Chao Yue, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Cristian Ferradas, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Qianli Ma, UCLA, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chao Yue, Chinese Academy of Sciences Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Yangling, China


Causes and Consequences of ULF Waves in Planetary Magnetospheres
Primary Convener:  Xueling Shi, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Boyi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China, Michael Hartinger, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Xuzhi Zhou, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xueling Shi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States


Circulation of Heavy Ions and their Role in Regulating the Near-Earth Plasma Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Muhammad Fraz Bashir, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Conveners:  Elena A Kronberg, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Lunjin Chen Dr., University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, United States and Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Muhammad Fraz Bashir, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States


Closing the gap between Space Weather Research, Operations, and End-User needs
Primary Convener:  Michele D Cash, NOAA-Space Weather Prediction Center, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Eric K Sutton, University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Linda Neergaard Parker, Universitites Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States and Shawn L Young, AFRL, Kirtland Afb, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shawn L Young, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States


Cold plasmas in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system: drivers, impacts, open questions, new measurements techniques and new space missions
Primary Convener:  Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Joseph Borovsky, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Elena A Kronberg, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany and Cecilia Norgren, University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions
Primary Convener:  Yixin Hao, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Hui Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Quanqi Shi, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China
Primary Liaison:  Yixin Hao, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China


Do Global Magnetic Fields Shield Planetary Atmospheres?
Primary Convener:  Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States; Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Mats Holmstrom, Swedish Inst Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden, Lynn M Kistler, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Kanako Seki, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Dave A Brain, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States


Dynamic nature of the polar ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms
Primary Convener:  Osuke Saka, Office Geophysik, Ogoori, Japan
Convener:  Shun Imajo, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Osuke Saka, Office Geophysik, Ogoori, Japan


Dynamics of Particles, Waves, and Precipitation in the Near-Earth Radiation Environment
Primary Convener:  Jean-Francois Ripoll, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France
Conveners:  Weichao Tu, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, Richard B Horne, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Jay Albert, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jean-Francois Ripoll, CEA/DAM- ILE DE FRANCE, Arpajon, France


Energetic Charged Particles at the Earth, the Gas Giants, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Peter Kollmann, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Drew L. Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Elias Roussos, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany and Alexander Drozdov, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Kollmann, The Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States


Energetic particle precipitation into Earth’s atmosphere: multipoint observations, simulation, and theory
Primary Convener:  Hong Zhao, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, AL, United States
Conveners:  Binbin Ni, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Mykhaylo Shumko, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Leng Ying Khoo, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hong Zhao, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, AL, United States


Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Asymmetry
Primary Convener:  Hyomin Kim, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, Astrid I Maute, NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States


Geospace System Response During Solar Eclipses
Primary Convener:  Michael Hartinger, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Kristina Collins, Case Western Reserve University, Electrical Engineering, Cleveland, OH, United States, Marc R Hairston, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States and Maria Graciela Molina, FACET -UNT - CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina
Primary Liaison:  Michael Hartinger, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


Global Transport of Mass, Energy, and Momentum Through the Magnetosphere
Primary Convener:  Matina Gkioulidou, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael R Collier1, Homayon Aryan2 and David G Sibeck1, (1)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael R Collier, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Interaction between waves and energetic electrons in space plasmas
Primary Convener:  Seth E Dorfman, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Xin An, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Marc Pulupa, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Seth E Dorfman, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States


Interactive Visualizations of Magnetic Reconnection: State-of-the-Art Spacecraft Observations and Simulations
Primary Convener:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Frederick D Wilder, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Cecilia Norgren, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States


Magnetic reconnection as a driver of the global magnetosphere dynamics
Primary Convener:  Shan Wang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Li J Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Rumi Nakamura, Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria and Benoit Lavraud, IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France
Primary Liaison:  Shan Wang, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


Magnetic Reconnection: Connecting Ideas from Observations, Experiments, Models, and Theory
Primary Convener:  Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Kevin James Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Yi-Hsin Liu, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sarah K. Vines, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


Magnetospheres in the Inner Solar System
Primary Convener:  Ryan M. Dewey, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Leonardo Regoli, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, Shaosui Xu, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Marissa F. Vogt, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ryan M. Dewey, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System
Primary Convener:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Chris Paranicas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Magnetospheric Driving via Solar Wind Mesoscale Structures
Primary Convener:  Aaron W Breneman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Simone Di Matteo, Catholic University of America, Physics Department, Washington, DC, United States, Alexa Jean Halford, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lauren W Blum, University of Colorado Bouler, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aaron W Breneman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Magnetospheric Physics: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amy M Keesee, University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States


Moon-Plasma Interactions Throughout the Solar System
Primary Convener:  Sven Simon, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Conveners:  Lucas Liuzzo, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Camilla D K Harris, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Quentin Nenon, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sven Simon, Universitaet zu Koeln, Koeln, Germany


Multiscale Plasma Convection: Mechanisms, Structures, and Effects in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere (MIT) System
Primary Convener:  Banafsheh Ferdousi, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Ying Zou, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Ercha Aa, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States and Dong Lin, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Banafsheh Ferdousi, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States


Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interaction in the Earth’s Magnetosphere
Primary Convener:  Lunjin Chen, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
Conveners:  Xiaojia Zhang, IGPP, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Peter H Yoon, University of Maryland, IPST, College Park, MD, United States and Yuto Katoh, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Xiaojia Zhang, IGPP, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Our Evolving Understanding of Auroral Physics and Magnetosphere Dynamics at Jupiter
Primary Convener:  George B Clark, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Yasmina M. Martos1, Vincent Hue2, Robert W Ebert2 and Scott J Bolton2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yasmina M. Martos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Quasilinear and nonlinear interactions in the Earth's radiation belts
Primary Convener:  Oliver Allanson, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Oliver Allanson, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, Hayley Allison, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Johnathan Patrick Joe Ross, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Jay Albert, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Oliver Allanson, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom


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, United States
Conveners:  Homayon Aryan, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Oleksiy V. Agapitov, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lauren W Blum, University of Colorado Bouler, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States and David Malaspina, University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Homayon Aryan, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States


Relating 27-day Averages of Solar, Interplanetary Medium Parameters and Geomagnetic Activity Proxies in Solar Cycle 24
Primary Convener:  Yvelice Soraya Castillo Rosales, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Conveners:  Maria Alexandra Pais1, João Manuel Fernandes2,3, Paulo Ribeiro2 and Anna Morozova2,4, (1)University of Coimbra, CITEUC, Department of Physics, Coimbra, Portugal(2)University of Coimbra, CITEUC, Coimbra, Portugal(3)Department of Mathematics, Coimbra, Portugal(4)Department of Physics, Coimbra, Portugal
Primary Liaison:  Yvelice Soraya Castillo Rosales, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tegucigalpa, Honduras


Solar-Terrestrial Interactions and the Resulting Dayside Transients
Primary Convener:  Gerard J Fasel, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, United States
Convener:  David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gerard J Fasel, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, United States


Test Title for Change
Primary Convener:  Ryan M. Dewey, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Convener:  Ryan M. Dewey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ryan M. Dewey, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


The Importance of Mesoscale Magnetotail Processes in Global and Kinetic-scale Magnetospheric Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Christine Gabrielse, Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States
Conveners:  Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, David Malaspina, University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States and Adam T. Michael, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christine Gabrielse, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States


Transient processes at the Earth’s magnetopause: multi-point, multi-scale observations and numerical simulations
Primary Convener:  Rungployphan Kieokaew, IRAP, Toulouse, France
Conveners:  Kyoung-Joo Hwang, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, Sergio Toledo-Redondo, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain and Vincent N Genot, IRAP / CNRS / UPS, PEPS, Toulouse, France
Primary Liaison:  Rungployphan Kieokaew, IRAP, Toulouse, France


Waves in the magnetosphere: generation, propagation, characteristics and impacts
Primary Convener:  Jinxing Li, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Maria Usanova, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Dedong Wang, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, David Hartley, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and David Malaspina, University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jinxing Li, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Small Satellites as Pathfinders for New Mission Capabilities
Primary Convener:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States