Robert's specialization is in Monte Carlo kinetic modeling of ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling and ion outflows. He is also interested in space weather forecasting and spacecraft-plasma interactions. Education: B.S. Astronomy, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, 2012 M.S. Engineering Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2015 Ph.D. Engineering Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2022

Expertise: Theory and Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and kinetic plasma physics, magnetotail
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, P3D, kglobal
Short bio: Harry Arnold is a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He utilizes data mining reconstructions of the Earth’s magnetosphere combined with MHD and PIC simulations to study the details of magnetotail magnetic reconnection. His scientific interests include magnetotail reconnection, 3D reconnection, nonthermal particle acceleration, and non-MHD current sheet equilibria.
URL: linkedin.com

Expertise: Theory, Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and kinetic plasma physics, magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, REMIX
Short bio: Slava Merkin has more than 20 years of extensive experience in numerical modeling of space plasmas, in particular, MHD simulations of the Earth's magnetosphere and the inner heliosphere. Throughout his career, he has contributed to many areas of space plasma research, including the physics of the strongly driven magnetosphere, magnetopause boundary instabilities, magnetotail stability and reconnection, particle acceleration, and heliospheric magnetic structure among others. His current scientific interests include understanding and describing the collective behavior of the disparate domains of geospace during storm time. Dr. Merkin holds a Principal Staff Scientist position at JHU/APL and a Visiting Scientist position at NCAR/HAO. He has been the supervisor of the Theory and Modeling Section at JHU/APL since 2015.
URL: APL profile URL: linkedin.com

Michael Wiltberger is a Senior Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory. Prior to returning to HAO he served as the Geospace Section Head within the Atmosphere and Geospace Division of the National Science Foundation. His main area of research is the modeling of the magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and coupled thermosphere-ionosphere system.

Dr. Wiltberger earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, in 1993, and his PhD. in space plasma physics in 1998 from the University of Maryland, College Park. Amongst his many scientific accomplishments are pioneering work on the inclusion of ionospheric outflow and the application of advanced statistical analysis in global models and ground-breaking results proving the connection between localized reconnection and, so-called, Bursty Bulk Flows in high-resolution simulations of the magnetotail. During his career, Dr. Wiltberger also has served in many important community functions, including as chair of the GEM Steering Committee, vice-chair of the AMS Science and Technology Committee on Space Weather, and as Vice Chair of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions Panel of the 2010 NRC Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics.
URL: NCAR profile URL: linkedin.com

Michael Wiltberger is a Senior Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory. Prior to returning to HAO he served as the Geospace Section Head within the Atmosphere and Geospace Division of the National Science Foundation. His main area of research is the modeling of the magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and coupled thermosphere-ionosphere system.

Dr. Wiltberger earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, in 1993, and his PhD. in space plasma physics in 1998 from the University of Maryland, College Park. Amongst his many scientific accomplishments are pioneering work on the inclusion of ionospheric outflow and the application of advanced statistical analysis in global models and ground-breaking results proving the connection between localized reconnection and, so-called, Bursty Bulk Flows in high-resolution simulations of the magnetotail. During his career, Dr. Wiltberger also has served in many important community functions, including as chair of the GEM Steering Committee, vice-chair of the AMS Science and Technology Committee on Space Weather, and as Vice Chair of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions Panel of the 2010 NRC Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics.
URL: NCAR profile URL: linkedin.com

Caitlin Shearer is a project manager and materials engineer at JHUAPL. She was project manager for NASA’s recently completed Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). Caitlin previously served as the deputy project manager on DART during Mission Operations, working under former DART project manager Ed Reynolds. She is also the assistant project manager on the Europa Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS) and is the project manager for a CubeSat instrument, the Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) instrument. In addition to project management, she is a materials engineer, working on multiple projects including NASA’s Europa Clipper and Dragonfly missions. Caitlin also has experience as a planetary protection engineer on Europa Clipper. Caitlin holds a Master of Science in Materials Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Inner magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: RCM
Short bio: Dr. Bao has been working as the postdoctoral research associate at Rice University with her research background in inner magnetosphere modeling, global magnetohydrodynamic and inner magnetospheric model coupling and magnetosphere-ionosphere(M-I) coupling. Her current research interests focus on the development and optimization of the inner magnetospheric component of the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment and the storm-time magnetospheric dynamics.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Inner magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: RCM
Short bio: Dr. Bao has been working as the postdoctoral research associate at Rice University with her research background in inner magnetosphere modeling, global magnetohydrodynamic and inner magnetospheric model coupling and magnetosphere-ionosphere(M-I) coupling. Her current research interests focus on the development and optimization of the inner magnetospheric component of the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment and the storm-time magnetospheric dynamics.

Expertise: GPS, TEC
Science area: Ionosphere
Short bio: The research interests of Dr. Claudia Borries are electrodynamic coupling processes in the thermosphere-ionosphere system, including storm conditions and coupling processes with the lower atmosphere. Since 2005 she has been working at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, in Neustrelitz. At that time, she started her PhD studying the signatures of planetary waves in the ionosphere. In 2010 she received the PhD degree from the Free University of Berlin. Subsequently, her research focus was on the effects of ionospheric storms in mid-latitudes. In 2015, she received a grant to build-up a young academics group at DLR. In parallel, she was acting in the ESA Space Weather Network as coordinator of the Ionosphere Expert Service Centre (2015-2021). Since 2019, she is head of department in the newly founded DLR Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics. MAGE, the new-generation “whole geospace model” targeted by CGS, makes the next step in improving geospace modeling capabilities and enables investigation of many coupling processes that Dr. Borries is interested in. She follows MAGE development closely and is eager to collaborate on model-data comparisons.

Subject Matter Expertise: Ionosphere, total electron content, global positioning system
Advisory Role: Ionospheric/thermospheric physics, space weather, policy, broadening participation

Carter is the director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where he directs the award winning space show productions for the Hayden Planetarium that play worldwide. He was part of the millennium rebuilding team of the Hayden, which designed a shift from traditional sky projection to shows based on immersive data visualization of the universe across all scales. As an undergraduate in Geophysics at the University of Colorado, he was an organizer for the Case for Mars series of conferences and part of the original "Mars Underground". In 1996 at NASA Ames, he co-edited and illustrated, "Strategies for Mars: A Guide to Human Exploration", a compendium of review papers addressing the challenges of that goal. Prior to joining the museum, Carter worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where he directed visualization efforts for earth system modeling. After joining the museum in 1998, in 2002 he initiated collaboration with Sweden's Linkoping University, School of Media Technologies on methods for using interactive visualization to display the museum's Digital Universe 3D Atlas in planetariums around the world. The collaboration earned him an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University in 2006. In 2015, that collaboration led to NASA funding of the open-source, free software called OpenSpace. In 2016, he was awarded the prestigious Technical Innovation Award by the International Planetarium Society. He grew up in a family of artists, attending classes at the Hayden Planetarium from the age of ten. In his global travels he uses his space shows and software to teach about our place in the universe.

German Farinas Perez is a first year PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at VirginiaTech and is a team member of the SuperDarn group. He graduated as an Electrical and Telecommunication Engineer and has a master’s degree in Space Geophysics. He has experience working with ionosondes and High Frequency radars. He also has experience with global MHD simulations of Flux Transfer Events (FTE) at the magnetopause and analyzing data from the Van Allen Probes, specifically the RBSPICE instrument. His current interests include Coherent and Incoherent Scattering Radars, radio sounding of the ionosphere, implementation of Software Radio techniques in the SuperDarn radars and plasma physics.

Katherine Garcia-Sage is the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere subject matter expert at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center. She carries out onboarding, visualization and analysis, and validation of CCMC-hosted M-I-T coupling models and tools, including auroral region models, satellite drag, and ionospheric outflow. Her main scientific interest is ionospheric outflow at Earth, Jupiter, and other planets, as well as understanding the effects of magnetospheric energy input in the ionosphere and thermosphere.

Jeff Garretson is a software engineer with expertise in modeling and simulation of multiphase computational fluid dynamics and computational magnetohydrodynamics. He is interested in the optimization and parallelization of computationally complex problems so that they can be run effectively on modern supercomputers.

Jeff Garretson is a software engineer with expertise in modeling and simulation of multiphase computational fluid dynamics and computational magnetohydrodynamics. He is interested in the optimization and parallelization of computationally complex problems so that they can be run effectively on modern supercomputers.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: SuperMAG (PI)
Short bio: Jesper is the PI for the global SuperMAG collaboration. This service provide quasi global and continuous set of measurements that will provide a robust means for validating the simulation results. Jesper is an expert in magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and relating observations to processes using imaging as a reference frame. He is the author of >100 peer reviewed papers on topics closely aligned with CGS goals.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, ionospheric outflows
Tools/Assets: Van Allen Probes and other NASA missions
Short bio: Matina Gkioulidou is a senior staff scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University, and the supervisor of the Magnetospheric Electrodynamics Section of the Space Physics Group of the Space Exploration Sector. Her background is in data analysis and instrumentation of energetic ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, focusing on ring current dynamics, and in particular, how mesoscale injections affect the global ring current buildup.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, ionospheric outflows
Tools/Assets: Van Allen Probes and other NASA missions
Short bio: Matina Gkioulidou is a senior staff scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University, and the supervisor of the Magnetospheric Electrodynamics Section of the Space Physics Group of the Space Exploration Sector. Her background is in data analysis and instrumentation of energetic ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, focusing on ring current dynamics, and in particular, how mesoscale injections affect the global ring current buildup.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, ionospheric outflows
Tools/Assets: Van Allen Probes and other NASA missions
Short bio: Matina Gkioulidou is a senior staff scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University, and the supervisor of the Magnetospheric Electrodynamics Section of the Space Physics Group of the Space Exploration Sector. Her background is in data analysis and instrumentation of energetic ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, focusing on ring current dynamics, and in particular, how mesoscale injections affect the global ring current buildup.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, ionospheric outflows
Tools/Assets: Van Allen Probes and other NASA missions
Short bio: Matina Gkioulidou is a senior staff scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University, and the supervisor of the Magnetospheric Electrodynamics Section of the Space Physics Group of the Space Exploration Sector. Her background is in data analysis and instrumentation of energetic ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, focusing on ring current dynamics, and in particular, how mesoscale injections affect the global ring current buildup.

Subject Matter Expertise: Atmosphere, thermosphere, space weather
Advisory Role: Atmospheric physics, policy, broadening participation
Short Bio: Maura Hagan is Professor Emerita of Physics at Utah State University and Senior Scientist Emerita at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her research expertise is largely centered on the excitation, propagation, and impacts of global-scale waves and tides in the Earth’s atmosphere. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.

Dr. Stephen Hale, Project Director in the UNH Leitzel Center, has over 15 years of experience developing STEM programs and research experiences for undergraduates and secondary STEM teachers. His work and interest include broadening participation in STEM career pathways to include students underrepresented in the STEM fields (e.g., by race/ethnicity, gender identity, socio-economic status, First Generation college attendees, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities). Dr. Hale is a First Generation college attendee with degrees in the life sciences.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Ionosphere-plasmasphere
Tools/Assets: SAMI3
Short bio: Dr. Huba is a theoretical and computational plasma physicist. He is an expert in the physics of the ionosphere-plasmasphere and a primary developer of the SAMI3 model.

Subject Matter Expertise: Magnetosphere, radiation belts
Advisory Role: Magnetospheric physics, space weather, policy, management
Short Bio: MARY K. HUDSON is the Eleanor and A. Kelvin Smith Professor Emeritus, now Research Professor, and served for eight years as chair of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. Mary Hudson is a leader in the theory, simulation, and observation of the effects of ultra-low frequency (ULF) wave oscillations on Van Allen belt electrons in the range of orbits of many communication and navigation satellites. She has studied a wide range of space plasma physics phenomena, including ionospheric plasma instabilities, the aurora, and magnetospheric waves especially their interaction with the energetic electrons of the Van Allen belts. Her current research includes the evolution of the radiation belts; how the ionized particle outflow known as the solar wind and the magnetic field of the Sun interact with the magnetic field of the Earth, producing electrical currents in the ionosphere; and the effects of solar cosmic rays on radio communications near the Earth's poles. Professor Hudson is also funded through the NSF to study solar cosmic rays and their access to the atmosphere. Professor Hudson is currently a Co-Investigator on two experiments on NASA's Van Allen Probes mission designed to study Earth's radiation belts, and on the Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL), with Professor Robyn Millan, also at Dartmouth College. Professor Hudson served as the Magnetosphere Co-director for the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM), an NSF Science and Technology Center studying the impact on the near Earth space environment of solar activity, following energy and mass transfer through the interplanetary medium—all the way to the Earth’s ionosphere. Professor Hudson has been recognized by the space physics community throughout her career. In 1984 she was named an AGU Fellow and received the James Macelwane Medal, gave the AGU James A. Van Allen Lecture in 2006 and received the John Adam Fleming Medal in 2017. She has served on numerous committees, including as AGU SPA Secretary, on the SPA Education and Public Outreach Committee, as a member of the NRC Decadal Survey Steering Committee, co-chair of the NAS/NRC Committee on Solar and Space Physics and as chair of the NSF Geospace Environment Modeling program steering committee. She is currently an Editor of AGU Advances.

Subject Matter Expertise: High-performance computing
Advisory Role: Supercomputing, resource allocation, software sustainability
Short Bio: Anke was named Associate Director of NCAR and Director of NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) in June 2017. She joined CISL in July 2009 as director of its former Operations and Services Division and was named Interim Director in November 2016. Before coming to NCAR she worked for 22 years at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, in a variety of leadership positions. She has more than 30 years’ experience in supporting, operating, deploying, and managing world-class supercomputing resources. Earlier, Anke worked as a rocket scientist at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. She holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Amy Keesee is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire. She studies ion dynamics in the magnetosphere, focusing on the plasma sheet and magnetotail regions, especially during magnetospheric storms and substorms. She also works on instrument development, including a next generation plasma spectrometer for space and laboratory measurements. Dr. Keesee supports broadening participation in STEM fields through workshops for educators and students as well as participating in professional activities to support inclusion of underrepresented groups.
URL: UNH profile

Amy Keesee is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire. She studies ion dynamics in the magnetosphere, focusing on the plasma sheet and magnetotail regions, especially during magnetospheric storms and substorms. She also works on instrument development, including a next generation plasma spectrometer for space and laboratory measurements. Dr. Keesee supports broadening participation in STEM fields through workshops for educators and students as well as participating in professional activities to support inclusion of underrepresented groups.
URL: UNH profile

Amy Keesee is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire. She studies ion dynamics in the magnetosphere, focusing on the plasma sheet and magnetotail regions, especially during magnetospheric storms and substorms. She also works on instrument development, including a next generation plasma spectrometer for space and laboratory measurements. Dr. Keesee supports broadening participation in STEM fields through workshops for educators and students as well as participating in professional activities to support inclusion of underrepresented groups.
URL: UNH profile

Amy Keesee is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire. She studies ion dynamics in the magnetosphere, focusing on the plasma sheet and magnetotail regions, especially during magnetospheric storms and substorms. She also works on instrument development, including a next generation plasma spectrometer for space and laboratory measurements. Dr. Keesee supports broadening participation in STEM fields through workshops for educators and students as well as participating in professional activities to support inclusion of underrepresented groups.
URL: UNH profile

Subject Matter Expertise: Magnetosphere, substorms, aurora
Advisory Role: Magnetospheric physics and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, NASA missions, policy

Expertise: Data analysis
Short Bio: Bharat Kunduri's research focuses on the dynamics of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. His current research interests include Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS), High Frequency radio wave propagation, and machine learning applications to space science.

Expertise: Theory, Modeling
Science area: Geoelectric field, GIC
Short bio: Alexey Kuvshinov holds a professorship at ETH Zürich (ETH), Switzerland, leading the electromagnetic (EM) induction group. Prof. Kuvshinov has worked in the area of EM induction for more than 30 years. He has been developing mathematical approaches, algorithms, and software to simulate and invert EM fields and responses in spherical and Cartesian Earth models with three-dimensional (3-D) conductivity distribution for a wide range of applications, including magnetotelluric, induction logging, controlled-source EM, global EM induction, and space weather. He leads several projects, including those supported by the Swiss Science Foundation and the European Space Agency. Dr. Kuvshinov and his group collaborate with CGS scientists on developing a quantitative understanding of the generation of geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) at multiples scales. His group uses the MAGE model to drive their EM induction codes to produce highly resolved GICs (down to <100 km) on the ground in response to strong solar disturbances.

Karl Laundal is a researcher at the University of Bergen's Department of Physics and Technology in Norway. He leads the Dynamics of the Asymmetric Geospace group at the Birkeland Centre for Space Science, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence. This group is dedicated to exploring asymmetries in the magnetosphere and ionosphere's large-scale dynamics. He is the Principal Investigator of the DynaMIT project, an ERC consolidator grant awarded in 2023 to study and simulate the coupling between the atmosphere and space. He is a co-investigator and team leader for NASA's EZIE mission.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Dr. Dong Lin has been working on solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. His current research interests focus on characterizing the magnetospheric precipitation and its effects on magnetosphere-ionosphere dynamics.
URL: https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/directory/dong-lin

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Dr. Dong Lin has been working on solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. His current research interests focus on characterizing the magnetospheric precipitation and its effects on magnetosphere-ionosphere dynamics.
URL: https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/directory/dong-lin

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Atmosphere-ionosphere
Tools/Assets: WACCM-X
Short bio: Dr. Hanli Liu is a senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include atmosphere dynamics, atmosphere-geospace coupling, and whole atmosphere model development.
URL: staff.ucar.edu/users/liuh

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Atmosphere-ionosphere
Tools/Assets: WACCM-X
Short bio: Dr. Hanli Liu is a senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include atmosphere dynamics, atmosphere-geospace coupling, and whole atmosphere model development.
URL: staff.ucar.edu/users/liuh

Expertise: Theory and data
Science area: Whole atmospheric model
Short bio: Dr. Huixin Liu has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Kyushu university, Japan since 2011. Her research interests include ionosphere-thermosphere response to geomagnetic storms and how they vary with lower atmosphere preconditioning, atmosphere-ionosphere coupling at multi-scales and gravity wave seeding of plasma irregularities. These topics are closely aligned with the CGS research goals. She is collaborating with CGS scientists in ongoing research and is excited about the possibility of developing a wholistic understanding of the forcing of the ionosphere-thermosphere system from above and below.

Expertise: Theory and Modeling
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, charged-particle precipitation
Tools/Assets: Theory and analysis
Short bio: William Lotko's research sponsored by NASA and NSF focuses on system-level studies of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere interaction, its plasma electrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, gas dynamics, and mesoscale impacts of collisional and collisionless transport processes, with applications to space weather. He is Senior Research Associate at HAO/NCAR and Engineering Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College.

Expertise: Theory, Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and kinetic plasma physics, magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, CHIMP
Short bio: John Lyon has had an extensive career in compuatioanl plasma physics, most notably in the development of the LFM global magnetospheric MHD code, the precursor to GAMERA. He is currently working on ionospheric outflow problems as well as extensions to MHD physics, such as Hall MHD in the magnetospheric context.

Expertise: Modeling, Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Gang's primary research interests are in high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics, solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere thermosphere coupling. She has extensive experience in numerical modeling, including assimilative methods like AMIE, as well as physics-based models TIEGCM, and TIMEGCM.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Astrid Maute studies the thermosphere-ionosphere response due to meteorological and geospace forcing, and is interested in the high-latitude magnetosphere-ionosphere energy transfer and the associated numerical modeling. She focuses specifically on ionospheric electrodynamics, ionospheric current systems and their associated magnetic perturbations.
URL: staff.ucar.edu/users/maute

Expertise: Data
Science area: Ionosphere, magnetosphere
Short bio: Dr. McWilliams is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She is currently the Chair of the international SuperDARN collaboration and the Director of the SuperDARN Canada National Research Facility. Her research interests focus on the large-scale dynamics of magnetosphere and ionosphere convection. She also has an interest in developing space-based education for undergraduate and graduate students, including being a partner in the CaNoRock program and the project lead on the International Space Mission Training Program, both Canada-Norway collaborations. Prof. McWilliams research interests are closely aligned with the CGS goals. She is interested in the MAGE development and data-model comparisons of the ionospheric electrodynamics. She is also interested in developing synergies between the CGS broadening impacts programs and her student education and training activities.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics, kinetic plasma physics, magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, CHIMP
Short bio: Adam Michael is a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He combines global MHD and kinetic simulations to study the processes governing energetic particles and their feedback on the global geospace system. His research interests include transport and acceleration in the magnetotail and the dynamics of the ring current and radiation belts.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics, kinetic plasma physics, magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, CHIMP
Short bio: Adam Michael is a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He combines global MHD and kinetic simulations to study the processes governing energetic particles and their feedback on the global geospace system. His research interests include transport and acceleration in the magnetotail and the dynamics of the ring current and radiation belts.

Dr. Nelli Mosavi is a Program Manager at the Space Exploration Sector, Civil Space at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory. She has worked as a technical lead and PM on various NASA spacecraft missions over the years such as MESSENGER, Van Allen Probes, Solar Parker Probe, DART and EUROPA MISE.

Expertise: Model-data comparison
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: RCM, SAMI3
Short bio: Dr. Anastasia Newheart is a postdoc at NCAR/HAO. Her research interests are ionospheric electrodynamics, ionospheric irregularities and the effects of magnetospheric convection.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Data analytics, imaging techniques for ionosphere/plasmasphere/magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GPS TEC, ISR, Van Allen Probes
Short bio: Romina Nikoukar is an expert in statistical signal and image processing techniques with application to Space Sciences. Specifically, she is interested in inversion, tomographic reconstruction, and data assimilation methods for ionosphere and plasmasphere using both space-borne and ground-based measurements.
URL: linkedin.com

Dr. M. Alexandra Matiella Novak is a member of the Senior Professional Staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She joined the Space Exploration Sector in 2010 as an Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Specialist and transferred to a planetary scientist position within the Sector in 2014. She currently leads several education and engagement initiatives associated with NASA missions and is very passionate about engaging underrepresented communities with NASA science.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, magnetotail
Tools/Assets: SuperMAG, NASA missions
Short bio: Shin Ohtani is a data analysis expert in the areas of the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and magnetotail dynamics. He has been studying storm and substorm dynamics with data from various satellites and ground instruments.

Expertise: Data
Science area: overall geospace science, hemispheric asymmetries
Short bio: Prof. Ostgaard is the Leader of Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS - A Centre of Excellence), Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway. Research topics of the Birkeland Centre, such as hemispheric asymmetries and atmospheric particle precipitation, are closely aligned with the CGS research goals of developing a wholistic understanding of stormtime geospace. Birkeland Centre scientists are collaborating with the CGS team on multiple research projects, including their joint participation in the NASA EZIE mission, and are active users of and contributors to the MAGE model developed by the CGS team.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, WACCM-X, CHIMP
Short bio: Dr. Pham has extensive background in model coupling, and in particular, in coupling models within the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system. This coupling ranges from the lower atmosphere modeled by WACCM-X to the polar wind and ion outflow modeled by IPWM that flows into the magnetosphere modeled by GAMERA, and the associated feedback loops enabled by these complex couplings.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, WACCM-X, CHIMP
Short bio: Dr. Pham has extensive background in model coupling, and in particular, in coupling models within the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system. This coupling ranges from the lower atmosphere modeled by WACCM-X to the polar wind and ion outflow modeled by IPWM that flows into the magnetosphere modeled by GAMERA, and the associated feedback loops enabled by these complex couplings.

Subject Matter Expertise: Space weather, geomagnetically induced currents
Advisory Role: Space weather, agency and industry relations, policy

Nikhil is a passionate software engineer with a Master's degree in Cybersecurity with expertise in crafting Python scripts for comprehensive test suites on High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. During his time as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Delaware, he has contributed to the many areas of the validation and verification suite for OpenMP, working with researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and various vendors. His accolades include hackathon victories and Capture the Flag ( cyber security competition) prowess. He is interested in developing secure, efficient, and dependable software on HPC systems that propels scientific research.

Expertise: Data
Science area: kinetic plasma physics, data analytics, solar wind-magnetosphere interaction
Tools/Assets: Machine learning, MMS, multi-spacecraft analysis Short bio: Savvas Raptis is a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His main expertise lies in multi-point and multi-mission data analysis and in space plasma modeling. His work is focused on using and combining different satellite datasets with computer simulation and machine learning algorithms.
URL: Personal website URL: linkedin.com

Expertise: Data, theory, modeling
Science area: Radiation belts, inner magnetosphere
Short bio: Dr. Jean-Francois Ripoll (HDR) has been a research staff member at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA, the French Atomic Agency), Physics Division, for the last 11 years. He currently holds the position of a Senior Scientist, with expertise in atmospheric and magnetospheric physics. He also holds an adjunct position at the LRC-MESO of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and is a member of the LMCE (Laboratory of Matter in Extreme Conditions), a new institute of University Paris-Saclay and CEA. Dr. Jean-Francois has collaborated with the JHU/APL team since 2015, working first with the CHIMP code and today with both GAMERA and CHIMP codes, developed at the CGS, to simulate active storm times and injections of energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere. He also supervises Ph.D. students who use the CGS codes for their research.

Expertise: Cloud architecture, advanced scientific computing
Science area: Modeling space plasmas, enablement of open science
Short bio: Dr. Constanze Roedig earned her doctorate at the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck) in relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and continued studying black holes at JHU as a postdoc. She spent 8 years in the private sector as a software architect to enable companies to transition their internal systems towards transparent, performant and scalable designs. The desire to give back to the community brought her back to science in the role of the technical lead for an Austrian-wide project to make HPC more accessible and bring cloud-native to the university system landscape. She now advocates for open standards, FAIR and open science and works as an R&D engineer on finding feasible means to unite HPC with the modern user-experience of kubernetes.

Romanek is an electrical engineering graduate student working with the SuperDARN research group at Virginia Tech. Armed with a Bachelor of Science in physics, her current research interests include modeling, analyzing, and understanding different space weather phenomena and the role space weather plays in driving different disturbances in the ionosphere. Veronica has worked with High Frequency (HF) radio data and SuperDARN data to model and analyze the behavior of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs).

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: SuperDARN (PI), Education
Short bio: Dr. J. Michael Ruohoniemi is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the teaching faculty at VirginiaTech. He leads the SuperDARN HF radar group and is the lead-PI for the NSF-funded collaboration of universities that makes up the U.S. component of the international SuperDARN collaboration.
URL: vt.superdarn.org

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: SuperDARN (PI), Education
Short bio: Dr. J. Michael Ruohoniemi is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the teaching faculty at VirginiaTech. He leads the SuperDARN HF radar group and is the lead-PI for the NSF-funded collaboration of universities that makes up the U.S. component of the international SuperDARN collaboration.
URL: vt.superdarn.org

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Tools/Assets: SuperDARN (PI), Education
Short bio: Dr. J. Michael Ruohoniemi is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the teaching faculty at VirginiaTech. He leads the SuperDARN HF radar group and is the lead-PI for the NSF-funded collaboration of universities that makes up the U.S. component of the international SuperDARN collaboration.
URL: vt.superdarn.org

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, plasma waves
Tools/Assets: SuperDARN, ground magnetometers, spacecraft
Short bio: Dr. Xueling Shi is a data analysis expert in the areas of the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. She has been studying ultra-low frequency waves and their space weather impacts from various spacecraft and ground instruments.

Expertise: Radiation belts, ring current, ionosphere, plasmasphere, data assimilation, machine learning.
Science area: Inner magnetospheric modeling.
Short bio: Yuri Shprits is head of the Space Physics and Space Weather section at the German Research Centre for Geosciences and Professor at the Institute of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His primary area of research is understanding the dynamics of the near Earth space environment hazardous to satellites. Yuri has developed codes to quantify the dynamical evolution of the radiation belts, and developed codes to quantify quasi-linear scattering rates due to wave-particle interactions. He has quantified the effects of scattering by ELF/ VLF and ULF waves and identified a number of critical effects associated with radial diffusion, local acceleration and loss of the radiation belt electrons. Yuri was one of the first to use data assimilative codes and the application of machine learning in radiation belt research. Among other prizes, Yuri Shprits was awarded the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Subject Matter Expertise: Magnetosphere, space weather
Advisory Role: Space weather, agency and industry relations, transition to operations, policy
Short Bio: Howard Singer is chief scientist at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been the magnetometer instrument scientist on CRRES and GOES missions and is active in research areas of solar-terrestrial interactions, space weather, ultra-low frequency waves, Earth’s radiation belts, geomagnetic disturbances, storms, and substorms. He has had leadership roles in the transition of research to operations and has led the effort to transition a Geospace model into operations at SWPC. He is currently serving on the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Solar and Space Physics and the NAS Space Studies Board.

Expertise: Modeling, data
Science area: Data analytics, kinetic plasma theory
Tools/Assets: TS07d, machine learning, data mining
Short bio: Mikhail (Misha) Sitnov investigates magnetospheric storms and substorms using data mining methods. He also studies kinetic features of the magnetotail dipolarizations associated with substorms using kinetic simulations that are constrained by empirical reconstructions.
URL: secwww.jhuapl.edu/SpaceScience/staff/ProfileView/147

Professor Leonard A Smith received his PhD in Physics at Columbia University. From 1992-2020 he was a Senior Research Fellow (mathematics) at Pembroke College, Oxford (UK), he was Director of the LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Time Series for the last two decades. In 2020 he joined Virginia Tech as a Professor in SPACE@VT. He is active in the formation, interpretation, evaluation and attempted application of probability forecasts in all areas, with a general interest in improving simulation modelling and scientific support for decision making, with aspirations of relevant uncertainty quantification and the escape from model land. Professor Smith was awarded a Selby Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, his bestselling book A Very Short Introduction to Chaos is available in over eight languages; he was active in the original experimental design(s) of climateprediction.net. He holds the Royal Meteorological Society’s Fitzroy Prize and is an AGU Charney Lecturer and a Visiting Scientist at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts. He tweets as @lynyrdsmyth.

Expertise: Modeling, Data
Science area: Atmosphere-ionosphere
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X, GOLD
Short bio: Stan Solomon is a scientist at the NCAR High Altitude Observatory, and head of the Geospace Frontiers section. His expertise is in the effects of the aurora on the thermosphere and ionosphere, modeling the thermosphere/ionosphere system, solar ultraviolet variability, and climate change in the upper atmosphere.
URL: staff.ucar.edu/users/stans

Expertise: Theory, Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and kinetic plasma physics, magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, CHIMP
Short bio: Kareem Sorathia is a computational plasma physicist whose research interests lie at the intersection of numerical methods, magnetospheric physics, and massive-scale computational science. His research work includes the development and use of both fluid, GAMERA, and kinetic, CHIMP, plasma codes to explore the "large effect of small scales" in the magnetosphere.

Expertise: Theory, Modeling
Science area: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and kinetic plasma physics, magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: GAMERA, CHIMP
Short bio: Kareem Sorathia is a computational plasma physicist whose research interests lie at the intersection of numerical methods, magnetospheric physics, and massive-scale computational science. His research work includes the development and use of both fluid, GAMERA, and kinetic, CHIMP, plasma codes to explore the "large effect of small scales" in the magnetosphere.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, magnetotail
Tools/Assets: NASA missions, Education
Short bio: Harlan E. Spence is Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire where he leads a research group that studies the physics of cosmic plasmas, from the Sun's corona to interplanetary space and all the way to Earth's upper atmosphere, using experimental and modeling techniques. He is principal investigator on three major NASA flight projects: the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit; the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP-ECT) on Van Allen Probes; and, the HelioSwarm MIDEX mission concept currently in Phase A.
URL: eos.unh.edu/person/harlan-spence

Expertise: Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, magnetotail
Tools/Assets: NASA missions, Education
Short bio: Harlan E. Spence is Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire where he leads a research group that studies the physics of cosmic plasmas, from the Sun's corona to interplanetary space and all the way to Earth's upper atmosphere, using experimental and modeling techniques. He is principal investigator on three major NASA flight projects: the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit; the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP-ECT) on Van Allen Probes; and, the HelioSwarm MIDEX mission concept currently in Phase A.
URL: eos.unh.edu/person/harlan-spence

Joel is a graduate student working in the Keesee research group at the University of New Hampshire. His current research interests focus on using energetic neutral atom imaging to study mesoscale magnetotail dynamics during geomagnetic storms and substorms.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Inner magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: RCM
Short bio: Frank Toffoletto is a Professor of Physics at Rice University. His research focus is in the development and use of computational models of the large-scale plasma physics of Earth's magnetosphere, with specific focus on the inner magnetosphere and coupling to the ionosphere.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Inner magnetosphere
Tools/Assets: RCM
Short bio: Frank Toffoletto is a Professor of Physics at Rice University. His research focus is in the development and use of computational models of the large-scale plasma physics of Earth's magnetosphere, with specific focus on the inner magnetosphere and coupling to the ionosphere.

Expertise: Modeling, Data
Science area: Inner magnetosphere, wave-particle interactions
Tools/Assets: CHIMP, Van Allen Probes
Short bio: Sasha Ukhorskiy is a principal scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University, the supervisor of the Space Physics Group of the Space Exploration Sector, and the Project Scientist of the NASA Van Allen Probes mission. His background is in energetic particle processes in magnetized plasmas, including physics of the ring current and radiation bets in Earth's magnetosphere.

Expertise: Modeling, Data
Science area: Ionosphere, outflow
Tools/Assets: IPWM, ISR
Short bio: Roger Varney's research focuses on using numerical models and ground-based instrumentation to study ionospheric plasma physics and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, with a particular emphasis on ion outflow physics. He is the lead developer of the ionosphere/polar wind model (IPWM) and highly experienced in analysis of ground-based ionospheric data, especially data from incoherent scatter radars (ISR).

Expertise: Modeling, Data
Science area: Ionosphere, outflow
Tools/Assets: IPWM, ISR
Short bio: Roger Varney's research focuses on using numerical models and ground-based instrumentation to study ionospheric plasma physics and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, with a particular emphasis on ion outflow physics. He is the lead developer of the ionosphere/polar wind model (IPWM) and highly experienced in analysis of ground-based ionospheric data, especially data from incoherent scatter radars (ISR).

Expertise: Modeling, Data
Science area: Ionosphere, outflow
Tools/Assets: IPWM, ISR
Short bio: Roger Varney's research focuses on using numerical models and ground-based instrumentation to study ionospheric plasma physics and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, with a particular emphasis on ion outflow physics. He is the lead developer of the ionosphere/polar wind model (IPWM) and highly experienced in analysis of ground-based ionospheric data, especially data from incoherent scatter radars (ISR).

Sandra Vilevac joined APL summer 2022 as an engagement outreach project manager in the Communications department. With a background in art education, design and science, she specializes in human centered design techniques to build sustainable engagement programs centered around DEI, wellness and workforce development strategies. Her priority with supporting NASA missions and initiatives is increasing STEM Identity as well as diversity in the future workforce. The programming she develops focuses in on equitable access to science and data.

Expertise: Data
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, magnetotail
Tools/Assets: AMPERE, MMS, Cluster, ACE/Wind
Short bio: Sarah Vines is an experimental space plasma physicist and Co-PI of AMPERE-3 whose research focuses on the dynamics of solar wind-magnetosphere interactions in the outer magnetosphere at the magnetopause and coupling to the polar cap region through field-aligned current systems. She extensively utilizes multi-point and multi-mission data analysis techniques to explore the ion- to large-scale processes and effects of low frequency waves, Birkeland currents, and dayside magnetic reconnection.

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Wenbin Wang's main research interest is the coupling of ionosphere-thermosphere system with the magnetosphere, and the development of high-resolution models of the thermosphere and ionosphere. He enjoys studying the dynamics and energetics of the thermosphere and ionosphere.
URL: www2.hao.ucar.edu/people/hao-staff/wenbin-wang

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Wenbin Wang's main research interest is the coupling of ionosphere-thermosphere system with the magnetosphere, and the development of high-resolution models of the thermosphere and ionosphere. He enjoys studying the dynamics and energetics of the thermosphere and ionosphere.
URL: www2.hao.ucar.edu/people/hao-staff/wenbin-wang

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Wenbin Wang's main research interest is the coupling of ionosphere-thermosphere system with the magnetosphere, and the development of high-resolution models of the thermosphere and ionosphere. He enjoys studying the dynamics and energetics of the thermosphere and ionosphere.
URL: www2.hao.ucar.edu/people/hao-staff/wenbin-wang

Expertise: Modeling
Science area: Ionosphere-thermosphere
Tools/Assets: TIEGCM, WACCM-X
Short bio: Wenbin Wang's main research interest is the coupling of ionosphere-thermosphere system with the magnetosphere, and the development of high-resolution models of the thermosphere and ionosphere. He enjoys studying the dynamics and energetics of the thermosphere and ionosphere.
URL: www2.hao.ucar.edu/people/hao-staff/wenbin-wang

Tristen D. Wanner is a dedicated researcher and aspiring physicist specializing in space physics and electromagnetics. Tristen is currently enrolled in a Direct-PhD Program in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in electromagnetics while engaged in a graduate research assistantship with SuperDARN at Virginia Tech and being contracted with NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Heliophysics Department. Holding a Bachelor of Science in Space Physics with a Minor in Applied Mathematics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Tristen has a background in analyzing the effects of geomagnetic storms, investigating the auroral oval boundary, and studying soliton and solitary wave theory. Tristen's research and his research contributions have been presented at prestigious conferences and symposiums such as AGU and NERC. Alongside academic pursuits, Tristen has gained diverse experience, including military training, tutoring undergraduate math and physics, and providing teaching assistance in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. With a passion also for game-development, blacksmithing, and international relations, Tristen brings a well-rounded perspective to scientific exploration.

My research focuses on the physical mechanism in space physics and the development of method- ologies to help uncover the underlying physical processes. I use numerical models to study space weather and coupling between neutral and charged particles in the upper atmosphere. I developed/adapted a multi-resolution data assimilation method into the space physics community, which improves the quantification of the drivers for space weather. I also developed a nested-grid module and incorporated it into a physics-based community model to better simulate/predict impacts from solar storms and terrestrial weather on the space environment.
URL: Github URL: Google Scholar

Expertise: Theory and modeling
Science area: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, planetary magnetospheres
Short bio: Dr. Binzheng Zhang is currently assistant professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the development of high-quality numerics for solving the MHD equations, solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling, and planetary magnetospheres including Jupiter, Saturn, Venus. The numerics and geospace related topics are closely related to the CGS goals, while the planetary research topics are extensions of the CGS model development, which demonstrates broader impact of the CGS. Dr. Zhang has been collaborating with CGS team members since 2007 and is enthusiastic about not only bringing the MAGE model to other (inhabitable) planets, but also training of the next generation of modelers together with the CGS team and other international collaborators.

Ying Zou is a senior staff scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests mainly focus on the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere, and their dependence on the upstream solar wind. She has been actively studying plasma convection, auroral dynamics, and thermosphere circulation using a combination of spacecraft and ground-based radars, imagers, magnetometers, Fabry-Perot interferometers, etc.

Ying Zou is a senior staff scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests mainly focus on the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere, and their dependence on the upstream solar wind. She has been actively studying plasma convection, auroral dynamics, and thermosphere circulation using a combination of spacecraft and ground-based radars, imagers, magnetometers, Fabry-Perot interferometers, etc.

Yiwen's research interests include the general computational modeling of the magnetosphere and other data techniques aiming to understand the physics of space. The specific tools Yiwen uses are the RCM (Rice Convection Model) and some of its variants. Yiwen is also interested in general code and data analysis development.