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2025 Joint CEDAR / GEM Workshop Agenda

22 - 27 June 2025
Des Moines, Iowa

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Note: the times listed in the agenda are in local Central Daylight Time.

A Multi-Purpose Room (room capacity: 30) hosts additional public and private events not listed here. View schedule.

Color Code for Breakout Workshops:

CEDAR presentation  = CEDAR

GEM Presentation  = GEM

Yellow rectangle  = Joint

Sunday, June 22, 2025 — Student Day
Time Agenda Presenter / Convener Room
7:00-18:00 Registration/Check-in    
8:30-9:00 Intro/Logistics and Community Care Discussion/Hand out Icebreaker/bingo/etc, Student Reps. Ballroom A&B
9:00-9:20 Plasma Physics Oshina Jagtap Ballroom A&B
9:20-9:40 Space Weather Vincent Ledvina Ballroom A&B
9:40-10:00 Coffee Break    
10:00-10:20 CEDAR Regime 1 (MLT) Jackson Jandreau Ballroom A&B
10:20-10:40 CEDAR Regime 2 (IT) Brenna Royersmith Ballroom A&B
10:40-11:00 Mag-Iono-Therm Coupling Jodie McLennan Ballroom A&B
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break  Meditation with Bhagyashree Wahgule) Ballroom A&B
11:20-11:40 GEM Regime 1 (IMAG) Declan O'Brien Ballroom A&B
11:40-12:00 GEM Regime 2 (Magnetopause) Anika Dujakovich Ballroom A&B
12:00-13:20 Student Lunch   Junior Ballroom B&C
13:20-14:20 CEDAR Track: Ground Based Instruments Asti Bhatt (ISR) + Kylee Branning (FPI) + Simon Shepherd (SuperDARN) 318
GEM Track: Modeling Roger Varney, Jack Wang (CCMC)  308
Career Advancement Track: Proposal writing workshop Jacob Bortnik, Lindsay Goodwin, and Chih-Ting Hsu 309-310
Applied + Soft Skills Track: CEDAR/GEM databases Katherine Cariglia (Madrigal), Jesper Gjerloev (SuperMAG) 319-320
14:20-14:40 Coffee Break    
14:40-15:40 CEDAR Track: Modeling Aaron Ridley (GITM) 318
GEM Track: Data Analysis Methods and Tools Hyunju Connor (Machine Learning) 308
Career Advancement Track: Future of Space Missions Scott Bailey + Douglas Rowland (GDC) 309-310
Applied + Soft Skills Track: Science Communication Claire Gasque (Giving Talks) + Madeline Evans (Poster Presentations) 319-320
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break    
16:00-17:00 CEDAR Track: Space-based Instruments Colin Triplett (ICON) + Joanne Wu (Swarm) + Jia Yue (SABER) 318
GEM Track: Instruments Sarah Vines 308
Career Advancement Track: How to become a PI of your own mission Ed Thiemann (Being a PI), Stephen Kaeppler (How to Design a Mission) 309-310
Applied + Soft Skills Track: Data visualization Jessica Norrell + Lindsay Goodwin 319-320
17:00 End of Student Day!    
17:30-19:30 Welcome Reception   Hilton

 

Monday, June 23, 2025
Time Agenda Presenter / Convener Room
7:00-18:00 Registration/Check-in    
8:00-9:30 Monday Joint Plenary #1    Ballroom A&B
8:00-8:10 Openning Remarks Mark Conde & Christine Gabrielse Ballroom A&B
8:10-8:15 Welcome from AGS Director Anne Johansen (virtual) & John Hannan (virtual) Ballroom A&B
8:15-8:20 Code of Conduct Review Mark Conde & Christine Gabrielse Ballroom A&B
8:20-8:30 Student Day Overview and Introductions Sophie, Aidan, Austin, Erika Ballroom A&B
8:30-9:20 Anti-Harassment Tutorial Blair Schneider Ballroom A&B
9:20-9:30 Workshop Overview Christine Gabrielse & Mark Conde Ballroom A&B
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break    
10:00-12:00 Monday Joint Plenary #2   Ballroom A&B
10:00-11:00 Distinguished Lecture Phil Erickson Ballroom A&B
11:00-11:25 Decadal Survey Overview on Effective Outreach Allison Jaynes Ballroom A&B
11:25-11:50 Public Outreach and Engagement: From Space Sounds to Penguins Michael Hartinger Ballroom A&B
11:50-11:55 Kathryn McWilliams Memorium Daniel Billet Ballroom A&B
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch on own    
12:00-13:30 GEMEE Mentoring Lunch Fraz Bashir Junior Ballroom B&C
13:30-15:30 Monday Breakout #1    
The Science of Ionospheres, Thermospheres and Mesospheres in the Next Decade Phil Erickson, Lara Waldrop 319-320
Advancing our understanding of Ionospheric-Thermospheric Dynamics: Ground- and Space-Based Observations During Solar Cycle 25's Ascending Phase Josemaria Gomez Socola 318
KITS-RX-MESO-CEDAR: substorm onset Part 1 Henry Arnold, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Yi Qi, Gareth Perry Ballroom A
COMP-CEDAR: Comparative Ionospheres George Clark, Dan Gershman Ballroom B
MDT: Identifying Knowledge Gaps in Dayside Transient Processes Research Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vasko, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou, Runyi Liu, David Tonoian 309-310
MPEC: Advances in understanding precipitation sources and effects in the coupled MIT system Dogacan Ozturk, Dong Lin, Steve Kaeppler, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Yiqun Yu, Kat Davidson 307
CP: Recent Progress of the Cold Plasma Community Across all Relevant Topics Gian Luca Delzanno, Joe Borovsky, Roger Varney, Natalia Buzulukova, Barbara Giles 308
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break    
16:00-18:00 Monday Breakout #2    
How does GDC Science address the new Decadal Survey? Katelynn Greer 319-320
Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs): Generation Mechanisms and Impacts on the IT System Dustin Hickey 318
KiTS-RX-MESO-CEDAR: substorm onset Part 2 Henry Arnold, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Yi Qi, Gareth Perry Ballroom A
Snakes on a Spaceship: The Menagerie Angeline Burrell and Alexa Halford  Ballroom B
MDT:Multiscale Dayside Transients: Community Research and Interactive Discussions Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vasko, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou, Runyi Liu, David Tonoian 309-310
MPEC: Discussion of the goals and next steps for the MPEC Focus Group with the community Dogacan Ozturk, Dong Lin, Steve Kaeppler, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Yiqun Yu, Kat Davidson 307
CP: Future Plans of Cold Plasma Focus Group Community Gian Luca Delzanno, Joe Borovsky, Roger Varney, Natalia Buzulukova, Barbara Giles 308
18:00-20:00 CEDAR | GEM Career Panel Dinner for Students   Junior Ballroom B&C
18:30-20:00 CEDAR CSSC dinner   Boardroom 2

 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Time Agenda Presenter / Convener Room
7:00-18:00 Registration/Check-in    
8:00-9:30 Tuesday GEM Plenary Session   Ballroom B
8:00-8:10 Welcome and Announcements Christine Gabrielse Ballroom B
8:10-8:45 Focus Group Tutorial: Radiation Belts as a System of  Systems Harriet George Ballroom B
8:45-9:20 Focus Group Tutorial: Magnetic Reconnection: The Key to Understanding Earth's Space Environment Yi Qi Ballroom B
9:20-9:30 Session Convener Announcements Session Conveners Ballroom B
8:00-9:30 Tuesday CEDAR Plenary Session   Ballroom A
8:00-8:05 Welcome from CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello  Ballroom A
8:05-8:10 Welcome from CSSC Chairs Lynn Harvey & Mark Conde  
8:10-8:15 Grand Challenge report: Impact of Terrestrial Weather on the Space Weather of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere Jens Oberheide Ballroom A
8:15-8:20 Grand Challenge report: The role of gravity waves in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere cross-scale coupling and irregularities: Observations and numerical simulations Titus Yuan Ballroom A
8:20-8:40 New Grand Challenge Introduction: Redefining Polar Cap Patches: Understanding High-Latitude Irregularities, and their implications for the coupled MIT system Leslie Lamarche Ballroom A
8:40-8:55 Early Career Science Highlight I: Interactions between Geomagnetic Activity and Sudden Stratosphere Warmings Komal Kumari Ballroom A
8:55-9:15 Science Highlight I: the EZIE mission Bill Swartz Ballroom A
9:15-9:30 CEDAR Workshop in the Near Future Lynn Harvey, Kristina Lynch, Katelyn Greer, Romina Nikoukar, Gareth Perry Ballroom A
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break    
10:00-12:00 Tuesday Breakout #1    
Impacts of Natural and Artificial Hazards on the Upper Atmosphere Sovit Khadka 319-320
Predictability of the geospace environment Nick Pedatella 318
MESO-MPEC-CEDAR: New opportunities for addressing outstanding problems in magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere physics using sounding rockets launched from Alaska Mark Conde, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Doğacan Ozturk Ballroom A
RBSoS-CEDAR: Effects of radiation belt particle precipitation on the atmosphere Adam Michael and Hanli Liu Ballroom B
MDT: Exploring Dayside Dynamics: Transient Processes Driving Magnetic Reconnection Across the Magnetosphere Savvas Raptis, Ivan Vasko, Imogen Gingell, Terry Z. Liu, Ying Zou, Runyi Liu, David Tonoian 309-310
GIC: Future FG Ideas and Current FG Efforts Xueling Shi, Dogacan Ozturk, Zhonghua Xu, Mark Engebretson, Josh Erin Rigler, Chigomezyo Ngwira, Shane Coyle, Gabby Nowak, Bhagyashree Waghule 307
CP: Summary of GEM Cold Plasma Focus Group Activities Gian Luca Delzanno, Joe Borovsky, Roger Varney, Natalia Buzulukova, Barbara Giles 308
12:00-13:30 Lunch on own    
12:00-13:30 GEM Student Rep Lunch   304-306
12:00-13:30 Judges Lunch   Boardroom 2
13:30-15:30 Tuesday Breakout #2    
(GC) Redefining Polar Cap Patches: Understanding High-Latitude Irregularities, and their Implications for the Coupled MIT System - 1 Leslie Lamarche 319-320
Long-term variation in the ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere (ITM) system Chih-Ting Hsu 318
MESO-CEDAR: Continuum Emissions Across Geospace: From the subauroral region to the aurora and dayside Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Philip Erickson Ballroom A
MPEC-CEDAR: Unraveling the global ionospheric current circuits and their role and impact in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere system Astrid Maute, Doga Oztuerk Ballroom B
RBSoS-CP: Coupling between the radiation belts and the plasmasphere Harriet George, Adam Michael, Man Hua, Luisa Cappanolo, Gian Delzanno, Natalia Buzulukosva, Barbara Giles, Roger Varney, Joe Borovsky 309-310
COMP: Planetary space physics data open house George Clark, Ryan Dewey, Wen Li, Peter Delamere, Dan Gershman , Bob Marshall, Shannon Curry 308
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break    
15:30 - 18:30 Tuesday Poster Session
(See the poster abstracts.)
  Grand Concourse & 312-316
15:30-20:30 Poster judging and dinner Poster judges Boardroom 2
18:40-21:00+ Excursion - Iowa Cubs baseball game    Principal Park

 

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Time Agenda Presenter / Convener Room
7:00-18:00 Registration/Check-in    
8:00-9:30 Wednesday Joint Plenary — Agency Updates   Ballroom A&B
8:00-8:20 NSF  Shikha Raizada (virtual) and Vania Jordanova (virtual) Ballroom A&B
8:20-8:40 NASA Joe Westlake Ballroom A&B
8:40-8:50 NOAA  Irfan Azeem (virtual) Ballroom A&B
8:50-8:55 ONR  Bruce Fritz (virtual) Ballroom A&B
8:55-9:05 AFOSR  Julie Moses (virtual) Ballroom A&B
9:05-9:30 Q&A All Agencies Ballroom A&B
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break    
10:00-12:00 Wednesday Breakout #1    
(GC) Redefining Polar Cap Patches: Understanding High-Latitude Irregularities, and their Implications for the Coupled MIT system - 2 Leslie Lamarche 319-320
Multi-decadal Variation Susan Nossal 318
MESO-CEDAR: Building a Long-Term Strategy for Ground-Based Instrumentation in Heliophysics Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Katelynn Greer, Marilia Samara, Mark Conde, Shun-Rong Zhang Ballroom A
MPEC-CEDAR: Whole-Atmosphere Coupling and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System: New Perspectives from Observations and Modeling Xian Lu, Federico Gasperini, Dogacan Su Ozturk, Dong Lin Ballroom B
MLGEM: Machine Learning for Geospace and Atmospheric Environment Modeling Hyunju Connor, Sai Gowtam Valluri 309-310
GIC: Ground Magnetic Field Perturbation Modelling Challenge Session Xueling Shi, Dogacan Ozturk, Zhonghua Xu, Mark Engebretson, Josh Erin Rigler, Chigomezyo Ngwira, Athony Rasca 307
RBSoS: Radiation Belts as a System of Systems: General Session Harriet George, Adam Michael, Man Hua, Luisa Capannolo 308
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch on own    
12:00-13:30 Agency Lunch Office Hour NASA, and TBD Ballroom A
12:00-13:30 Judges lunch   Boardroom 2
13:30-15:30 Wednesday Breakout #2    
Equatorial Aeronomy in Data Sparse Regions Dustin Hickey 319-320
A Tutorial on the NSF NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Thermosphere/Ionosphere Extension (WACCM-X) Hanli Liu 318
MESO-CEDAR: Multi-scale Dynamics in the M-I-T System Toshi Nishimura, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt Ballroom A
MPEC-CEDAR: Ionosphere-Thermosphere (IT) response and feedback to the drivers in the magnetosphere (M)  Yongliang Zhang, Dong Lin
Doğacan Su Öztürk
Ballroom B
Machine Learning for Geospace and Atmospheric Environment Modeling - 2 Sai Gowtam Valluri, Hyunju Connor, 309-310
RX: Toward a better understanding of the fundamental physics in magnetic reconnection: energy conversion mechanisms and reconnection-turbulence interaction Chen Shi, Yi Qi, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Krishna Khanal, John Dorelli, Katherine Goodrich 307
RBSoS: Radiation Belts as a System of Systems: Magnetotail Coupling Harriet George, Adam Michael, Man Hua, Luisa Capannolo 308
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break    
15:30 - 18:30 Wednesday Poster Session
(See the poster abstracts.)
  Grand Concourse 312-316
15:30-20:30 Poster judging and dinner Poster Judges Boardroom 2

 

Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time Agenda Presenter / Convener Room
7:00-18:00 Registration/Check-in    
8:00-9:30 Thursday GEM Plenary Session   Ballroom B
8:00-8:10 Welcome and Announcements Allison Jaynes Ballroom B
8:10-8:45 Focus Group Tutorial: Multiscale Dayside Transients and their Effect on Earth's Magnetosphere Savvas Raptis Ballroom B
8:45-9:20 GEM Student-Chosen Speaker: Budget Science in an Uncertain Age Tony Rogers Ballroom B
9:20-9:30 Session Convener Announcements Session Conveners Ballroom B
8:00-9:30 Thursday CEDAR Plenary Session   Ballroom A
8:00-8:10 Poster Prize Announcement Titus Yuan Ballroom A
8:10-8:55 CEDAR Prize Lecture: Global-scale wave impacts on the coupled ionosphere-thermosphere system from daily to sub-seasonal timescales Jens Oberheide Ballroom A
8:55-9:10 Early Career Science Highlight II: Wave-Wave Interactions and Modulation in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Zishun Qiao Ballroom A
9:10-9:30 Science Highlight II: Is the lower atmosphere important for satellite drag and reentry? Jia Yue Ballroom A
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break    
10:00-11:00 Compassionate Leadership for Burnout Rebecca Pope-Ruark  305-306
10:00-12:00 Thursday Breakout #1    
New capabilities for studying equatorial aeronomy and space weather Danny Scipion 319-320
Waves and Circulation in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere: Connection across Scales Jiarong Zhang 318
MESO-MMV-SCIMM-CEDAR: Making discoveries with the Multiscale Atmosphere Geospace Environment (MAGE) Model Michael Wiltberger, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Lutz Rastätter, Cristian Ferradas, Ballroom A
MPEC-CEDAR: High-latitude Thermosphere Dynamics and Their Impacts on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System During Geomagnetically Active Periods Kat Davidson, Qingyu Zhu Ballroom B
GIC-GMAG: GMAG Update and GIC General Contribution Session Xueling Shi, Dogacan Ozturk, Zhonghua Xu, Mark Engebretson, Josh Erin Rigler, Chigomezyo Ngwira 309-310
RX: Beyond semantics: when is reconnection “electron-only” in observations and simulations? Krishna Khanal, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Chen Shi, Yi Qi, John Dorelli, Katherine Goodrich 307
RBSoS: The future of radiation belt system science Harriet George, Adam Michael, Man Hua, Luisa Capannolo 308
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch on own    
12:00 - 13:30 CEDAR Student lunch Sophie, Aidan 304-306
12:00 - 13:30 CEDAR CSSC lunch   Baordroom 2
12:00-13:30 GEM Steering Committee Lunch   Multipurpose Room
13:30-15:30

Thursday Afternoon Joint Plenary Session: Community Care

Unraveling Burnout for Scientists

Rebecca Pope-Ruark  Ballroom A&B
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break    
16:00-18:00 Thursday Breakout #2    
(GC) The role of gravity waves in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere cross-scale coupling and irregularities: Observations and numerical simulations - 1 Titus Yuan 319-120
Expansion of the Neutral Atmosphere and its Impact on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Sangyun Lee 318
Drivers, Control, and Effects of the Ionospheric Conductance and Conductivity in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Systems Yen-Jung Joanne Wu, Brian Harding, Christine Gabrielse, Claire Gasque, Dogacan Su Ozturk, Dong Lin 309-310
RX: How to set up the initial condition for simulations of magnetic reconnection? M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Yi Qi, Chen Shi, Krishna Khanal, John Dorelli, Katherine Goodrich 307
SCIMM: Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling Cristian Ferradas, Chao Yue, Jacob Bortnik, Qianli Ma 308
16:00-16:45 Small Group Coaching Session (<5 years past PhD, including students) Rebecca Pope-Ruark  305-306 
17:15-18:00 Small Group Coaching Session (>5 years past PhD) Rebecca Pope-Ruark  305-306 
18:30 - 20:00 Banquet   Ballroom A&B

 

Friday, June 27, 2025
Time Agenda Presenter / Convener Room
7:00-18:00 Registration/Check-in    
8:00-9:30 Friday Joint Plenary Session: Heliophysics Moving Forward   Ballroom A&B
8:00-8:10 Welcome and Announcements Mark Conde and Christine Gabrielse Ballroom A&B
8:10-8:45 Decadal Survey Summary Stephen Fuselier and Robyn Millan Ballroom A&B
8:45-9:20 Agency Response and Future Outlook Jared Leisner, and TBD Ballroom A&B
9:20-9:25 NASA LWS Program Analysis Group (LPAG) Updates and LWS Focused Science Topics (FST) Solicitation for FY26+  Shasha Zhou Ballroom A&B
9:25-9:30 Closing Remarks Lynn Harvey, Allison Jaynes, Christine Gabrielse, Mark Conde Ballroom A&B
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break    
10:00-12:00 Friday Breakout #1    
(GC) The role of gravity waves in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere cross-scale coupling and irregularities: Observations and numerical simulations -2 Titus Yuan 319-320
2025 ISR World Day Planning Meeting Lindsay Goodwin 318
Advances in Meteor, Meteoroid, and Space Debris Science and Engineering Julio Urbina 308
MESO-KiTS-CEDAR: Magnetotail and Ionosphere Structure and Dynamics Inferred from Low-Altitude and Ground-Based Observations Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, Harry Arnold, Jason Derr Ballroom A
MPEC-CEDAR: Modeling of whole Geospace Coupling and Validation Wenbin Wang, Dong Lin
Dogacan Su Ozturk
Ballroom B
COMP-RBSoS: Comparative Planetary Radiation Belt Processes George Clark, Harriet George, Wen Li, Peter Delamere , Dan Gershman, Ryan Dewey, Bob Marshall, Shannon Curry 309-310
12:00-13:30 Lunch on own    
12:15-13:15 Townhall: Addressing Advocacy in the Face of Heliophysics Funding Uncertainty Ian Cohen, and TBD Ballroom A
13:30-15:30 Friday Breakout #2    
(GC) Impact of Terrestrial Weather on the Space Weather of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere -1 Jens Oberheide 319-320
Science Opportunities with the Upcoming NASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Mission Lara Waldrop 318
Ionospheric Scintillation and Plasma Density Irregularities: Impacts on Space Weather Jason Derr 308
MPEC-MESO-CEDAR: Bridging Models and Observations: Strategies for Quantitative Data-Model Comparisons & Innovative applications of atmosphere-ionosphere models and datasets Bea Gallardo-Lacourt and Haonan Wu Ballroom A
Career Development for Early and Mid-Career Scientists: Strategies for Success Lynn Harvey, Allison Jaynes, Aidan Thayer, and Lindsay Goodwin Ballroom B
KiTS-COMP: Joint session on thin current sheets throughout the solar system Harry Arnold, Anton Artemyev, Jason Derr, Akhtar Ardakani, George Clark, Wen Li, Bob Marshall, Dan Gershman, Peter Delamere, Shannon Curry 309-310
GIC: Gannon Storm Session Xueling Shi, Dogacan Ozturk, Zhonghua Xu, Mark Engebretson, Josh Erin Rigler, Chigomezyo Ngwira 307
15:30-16:00 Coffe Break    
16:00-18:00 Friday Breakout #3    
(GC) Impact of Terrestrial Weather on the Space Weather of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere - 2 Jens Oberheide 319-320
Advancing Neutral Wind Measurements: New Instrumentation and Recent Discoveries Jonathan Makela 318
MESO-CEDAR: Electrodynamic Coupling of the Thermosphere, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere from High to Low Latitudes Luis Navarro, Bea Gallardo-Lacourt Ballroom A
MPEC-CEDAR: Advancements in auroral science for magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere-atmosphere coupling with multi-point measurements Leslie Lamarche, Kristina Lynch, Don Hampton, Meghan Burleigh, Dong Lin, Dogacan Su Ozturk Ballroom B
  Adjourn