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			 **   THE GEM MESSENGER   **
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						     Volume 2, Number 7  
						     May 9, 1992
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Snowmass Meeting Update
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     Slightly over 70 people have indicated their plans to attend the 
Snowmass workshop. Please get your reservations in immediately if you
have not done so because that number is close to the total size of our
booking.

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GEM Continues Its First Campaign
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                                             By Tim Eastman/NSF

   For this current fiscal year (FY92), 26 proposals were received 
in response to our specified target date of February 1, 1992.  
Although the requested amounts totaled $1.95M, we had only about $385K 
of GEM funds available due to no designated increase for GEM within the 
Global Change program.  The base program cannot provide much relief 
because it only received a 4.2% increase.  A significant increase for 
GEM is in NSF's portion of the President's FY93 budget; you can assess 
for yourself the clouds overhanging the non-defense discretionary budget.

   There are still good reasons for hope.  GEM is a very well designed 
program with very high leveraging and practically unmatched science per 
$ potential.  The exceptionally strong proposal pressure this year 
provides one very strong reason for growth in FY93.  New and vigorous 
leadership both here at NSF and in the GEM community combined with some 
important new scientific results also add to our reasons for hope.

   The following is a list of PIs selected for FY92.

Cynthia Cattell (UCB)    S3-3 Tests of Field Aligned Current Models
Larry Lyons (Aerospace)  Boundary Identification using Energetic Particles
John Olson (Alaska)      ULF Waves at the Cusp
Chris Russell (UCLA)     Solar Wind - Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling
Frank Toffoletto (Rice)  Mapping the Cusp

Observation Campaign Coordinators:
    Chris Russell, UCLA
    Ted Rosenberg, Maryland
Theory Campaign Coordinators:
    Larry Lyons, Aerospace

    (Maha Ashour-Abdalla has resigned from her Campaign Coordination 
activities.  Many thanks to Maha for her very substantial contributions 
and service to the GEM program to date along with our hopes for her 
continued involvement. 
    Excerpt from a letter from M. Ashour-Abdalla to the NSF Program 
Director, dated 4/23/92:
     "... I find the progress made by the participating research groups 
     to be truly impressive.  From the conferences and correspondence 
     discussing the program's research, it is clear that every aspect 
     of the program has achieved a remarkably high level of success. The
     program is fulfilling the highest hopes that Chris Goertz and I, 
     as campaign coordinators, had when we met to discuss the critical 
     first year of GEM in early 1991.")


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