4th CGS Agenda

Event Type

CGS Day 1: Monday Nov 13

NOTE: All times are MT to reflect the local time of the meeting

In Person: NCAR Center Green 2 Auditorium (3080 Center Green Boulder CO)

09:00–09:15 Introductory Remarks

09:00 Logistics—Michael Wiltberger
09:05 Welcome—Slava Merkin

09:15–11:00 Session 1—CGS Theme 1, Multiscale plasma sheet transport, ring current build-up, and their global impacts throughout stormtime geospace
4 - 25 min (15 speaker + 10 discussion) talks with 5 min buffer

Chair—Adam Michael
09:15 Eric Donovan, “Update from Transition region meeting”
09:40 Andrei Runov, “Near-Earth Magnetotail Dipolarizations, Particle Energization, and their Signatures in the Nightside Auroral Zone”
10:05 Anthony Sciola, “The contribution of plasma sheet bubbles to stormtime ring current buildup and evolution of the energy composition”
10:30 Xiantong Wang, “Embedded PIC in tail”

11:00–10:15 Break

11:15–13:00 Session 2—CGS Theme 2, Stormtime mesoscale ionospheric structure and global geospace mass circulation
4 - 25 min (15 speaker + 10 discussion) talks with 5 min buffer

Chair—Kevin Pham
11:15 Larry Lyons, “Mesoscale Polar-Cap Flow Channels: Observations of Long Duration Propagation and Effects on Space Weather Disturbances”
11:40 Ercha Aa, “Exploring multi-scale ionospheric structures from equatorial to subauroral latitudes during some recent strong storms”
12:05 Mei Yun Lin, “Small Role, Big Impact: Contributions of Heavy Ions to Earth’s Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System”
12:30 Robert Albarran, “Characterization of N+ Abundances in the Terrestrial Polar Wind using the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment”

13:00–14:30 Lunch

14:30–16:15 Session 3—Undergraduate Research Forum—Amy Keesee

Chair—Amy Keesee
14:30 Michael Lundquist, UCLA
14:45 Alan Michael, UCLA
15:00 Spencer Forsling and Preston Pitzer, Virginia Tech
15:15 Adrian Archer, JHU APL
15:30 Koutian Wu, USTC/NCAR HAO
15:45 Graduate Student Panel Discussion
- Tips for applying, choosing, and transitioning to grad school
  - Tristen Wanner (VT), Joel Tibbetts (UNH), Anusree Devanandan (UNH)

CGS Day 2: Tuesday Nov 14

09:00 Logistics—Michael Wiltberger

09:05–11:20 Session 4—CGS Theme 3, Lower atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling at different scales
5 - 25 min (15 speaker + 10 discussion) talks with 5 min buffer

Chair—Robert Albarran
09:05 Sharon Vadas, “Impacts of gravity waves from the polar vortex on the IT system”
09:30 Larisa Goncharenko, “Traveling ionospheric disturbances and their connections with stratospheric gravity waves and the polar vortex”
09:55 Katrina Bossert, “Observations of Lower Atmosphere Gravity Wave Forcing of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere: From the Pole to the Equator”
10:20 Joe Huba, “Simulations of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles”
10:45 Huixin Liu, “Thermosphere circulation and tidal response to increasing CO2 and the role of ion drag”

11:20–11:30 Break

11:30–13:10 Session 5—Data Model Fusion
4 - 25 min (15 speaker + 10 discussion) talks with 5 min buffer

Chair—Dong Lin
11:30 Nick Pedatella, “Improved specification and forecasting of the ionosphere-thermosphere through whole atmosphere data assimilation”
11:55 Dedong Wang, “Development of Comprehensive Wave Models and Evaluation of Wave Effect on Energetic Electrons in the Inner Magnetosphere”
12:20 Karl Magnus Laundal, “Reprocessing the Global UV Aurora Dataset from IMAGE: Dayglow Subtraction and Boundary Definition Using Robust Statistics”
12:45 Harry Arnold, “High Resolution Simulation of Substorm Dynamics with Time Dependent Empirical Resistivity Maps”

13:00–14:30 Lunch

14:30–16:15 Session 6—CGS Community Tools
4 - 25 min (15 speaker + 10 discussion) talks with 5 min buffer

Chair—Slava Merkin
14:30 Michael Wiltberger, “Overview of Engagement Activities”
14:45 Eric Winter, “Python tools”
15:10 Brent Smith, “Containerization/SPLASH”
15:35 Constanze Roedig, “Community@Scale: How Cloud Native Tech can enable OpenScience”
16:00 Slava Merkin, “Concluding remarks”