Dr. McPherron (Ph.D., UCB, 1968) has a Joint Appointment as a Professor of Space Physics in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research interests include ULF wave phenomena, magnetospheric substorms, magnetic substorms, solar wind-magnetosphere coupling, and space weather forecasting. His teaching includes topics in Space Plasma Physics and Exploration Geophysics. His current research focus includes studies of the modes of magnetospheric response to different states of the solar wind and the properties of the solar wind at 1 AU.

Jan Josef Sojka joined the American Geophysical Union in 1979. He is currently head of the Department of Physics and the assistant director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences at Utah State University in Logan. His areas of scientific interest include global-scale modeling of the ionosphere, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, solar-terrestrial weather forecasting, data compression, and small satellite technology.

Dr. Larisa Goncharenko has been an AGU member since 1996. She is currently a research scientist at the Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her major areas of interest are ionospheric-thermospheric coupling, dynamics and electrodynamics of the ionosphere and thermosphere, with emphasis on processes in the lower thermosphere.

Dr. Lynn Kistler (Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland, 1987) has been an AGU member since 1984. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Physics and the Space Science Center at University of New Hampshire, Durham. Her major interests are in the impact of heavy ions on dynamics of the magnetosphere, particularly in the ring current and magnetotail. She is also very interested in space instrumentation to measure ion composition; involved in developing instruments for CLUSTER, FAST, Equator-S, ACE, and STEREO.

Dr. Joe Giacalone (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1991) has been an AGU member since 1987. He is currently an associate professor of planetary sciences at University of Arizona. His major area of interest is the physics of space plasmas including high-energy charged-particle acceleration and transport in the heliosphere, and the physics of collisionless shocks.