*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 5, Number 7 March 16, 1995 ---------------------------------- GEM Snowmass Workshop Announcement ---------------------------------- Dear Colleague: The 1995 NSF Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Summer Workshops will take place at Snowmass Village, Colorado from June 26 - June 30, 1995. This meeting is comprised of workshops covering the three currently active GEM campaigns: Boundary Layer (BL), Global Geospace Circulation Model (GGCM), and Tail/Substorm (TS). Every person on the GEM e-mail list will soon be receiving a detailed information package. In this package, you should find: (1) the workshop announcement with information on how to contact conveners and working group chairpersons; (2) travel and lodging information with a map of Snowmass Village; (3) a registration form; (4) a poster submission form; (5) information for electronic submission of posters [see addendum of this message for that announcement]; and (6) recreational activities information. If you are not on the GEM e-mail list, or know of someone who should receive this package, please forward both their e-mail and mailing addresses to me. The registration fee is $180 for the full 5 days. The fee is $110 if you plan to attend only the BL/GGCM Workshops that span June 26-28 or only the GGCM/TS Workshops that span June 28-30. Registration after June 10 will incur a $20 penalty. The registration fee covers daily continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon refreshment breaks, the welcoming reception on Sunday evening June 25, and the banquet on Wednesday evening June 28. Some travel support will be available for graduate students. Students will be asked to share accomodations. Applicants are requested to write to me by May 12, 1995 briefly describing their area of interest and including a letter from their research advisor. Very limited assistance may also be available to non-students. Lodging is being held at the Slivertree Hotel/Wildwood Lodge and at the Terracehouse Condominiums. Your information packets will contain lodging details; please note the different reservation cutoff dates and phone numbers. Also, be sure to identify yourself as being with the NSF/GEM Workshop when calling for reservations. We look forward to another successful Snowmass meeting and hope to see you all in June! With best regards, --- Harlan E. Spence GEM Workshop Coordinator (spence at bu.edu) P.S.: We have decided to make use of the latest technology for Snowmass '95 by creating a virtual GEM poster session in "Cyberspace" to compliment the workshop. A description of this novel experiment, provided by Chris Russell and Guan Le who have taken the lead in this grand adventure, is provided below. I urge you all to consider your own participation in this workshop enhancement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: GEM Snowmass Meeting Participants From: Chris Russell and Guan Le Subject: On-Line Poster Session In conjunction with the June meeting in Snowmass, We would like to try an experiment to enhance the impact of our poster sessions. We would like to put all the posters on-line on the World Wide Web. We have already made some of our posters from the Fall AGU meeting accessible over the World Wide Web (URL: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/ssc/poster.html). Please take a look at these to get a feeling as to how it is done and to decide on the merits of this scheme. As we see it, on-line access will benefit both the presenters and the viewers at Snowmass because it will allow them a more leisurely viewing, especially welcome if they had to stand by their poster all night and didn't get to see the others. It also benefits those who cannot get to the meeting by allowing them to participate in part of the meeting. There are three ways for you to participate in the scheme which we list in decreasing order of (our) preference: 1. Supply us with a URL to a document posted on the author's home site. Please add a return link to the Snowmass poster page at the end of your poster (URL: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/snowmass.html). Include your e-mail address in your document so that we and others may contact you. To minimize long download times we suggest that the poster be divided into a text file and "figure" files which are down loaded only after selection. These "figures" include math and special symbols. 2. Send us a complete HTML document for posting at UCLA. The same comments on poster design apply here also. 3. Supply us text in ascii and figures and equations in one of the following formats (in decreasing order of preference: a)gif files, b)tiff file, c)postscript file, or d)hard copy to be scanned in at UCLA. Options b), c) and d) generally produce poorer images as they must be converted to gif format to be displayed through most WWW browsers. Option d), scanning images cannot be guaranteed to be up in time for the poster session because it is a time consuming process. Please call out all your figures in the text so that we know where to put the links to the figures. For us to receive your document, we would like you to make it available on an anonymous ftp site on your system. You can then send e-mail to: snowmass at igpp.ucla.edu including your ftp site, the filename of your document and any image filenames, and a contact e-mail address. If you don't have access to an anonymous ftp site, send e-mail to the above address and we will work with you on an individual basis on how to get your files. Any questions can also be directed to the above e-mail address. Since interest will be strongest in the meeting at the time of the meeting, we request that the posters be sent to us to arrive no later than June 19. If you install your poster at your own home site, then you are free to update your poster at any time. However, UCLA will not be able to do any work on the poster session during the Snowmass and IUGG meetings, because we will be at these meetings ourselves. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To add name to the mailing list, send a message to: editor at igpp.ucla.edu | |For message to whole GEM mailing list, send to: gem at igpp.ucla.edu | |For message to a specific working group (BL Campaign), send to: | | gem_field at igpp.ucla.edu (WG1); gem_boundary at igpp.ucla.edu (WG2); | | gem_current at igpp.ucla.edu (WG3); gem_data at igpp.ucla.edu (WG4) | | gem_ggcm at igpp.ucla.edu (WG5) | | gem_chair at igpp.ucla.edu (WG chairs, Odile and W. J. 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