*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 6, Number 24 May 9, 1996 ---------------------------------- NSF GEM '96 Summer Workshop Agenda ---------------------------------- From: spence at bu.edu (Harlan E. Spence) Dear GEM Community, Please find attached the final agenda (as of 5/9/96!) for the upcoming NSF/GEM summer workshop, to be held on 23 - 28 June 1996 in Snowmass, CO. This year's workshop promises to be the most diverse workshop to date, with many different projects in full swing. In a nutshell: o The first GEM initiative, the Boundary Layer (BL) Campaign, is now mature. The BL campaign will be providing results to the Global Geospace Convection Model (GGCM) Campaign in a first attempt to synthesize science results formally into the GGCM framework. Both the BL and GGCM campaigns will meet separately on Monday and Tuesay as well as meeting jointly on Tuesday. o A new campaign definition will commence on Wednesday as GEM initiates the Inner Magnetosphere and Storm Campaign. o On Thursday and Friday, the "adolescent" Magnetotail and Substorm Campaign will continue the exciting projects started at the last few workshops. This year is especially stimulating owing to the near-complete deployment of the ISTP suite of spacecraft. Many of the sessions will incorporate these new data sets implicitly and they should provide a great boost to the on-going and formative GEM campaigns. Several tutorials are geared to provide a view of the spacecraft data now available via the ISTP program and lessons already learned from analysis of these data. The agenda shown below represents a fairly accurate representation of the meeting format. As most of you know, GEM meetings are workshops and this tends to produce a certain amount of fluidity in schedule. Don't be surprised if the final agenda changes a little from the present plan, but don't expect any GREAT changes. Please stay tuned for detailed "calls for participation" from the various campaign working groups (many have already posted such requests and are available at the GEM WWW homepage). As the working group programs crystallize, the chairs will post their own more definitive programs which will dovetail with the general outline below. Please contact the working group chairs directly for the more specific information. I look forward to seeing you all at Snowmass. This year promises to be a real winner! Best regards, --- Harlan E. Spence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GEM WORKSHOP AGENDA (AS OF 5/9/96) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, 23 JUNE 2:00 - 6:00 Student Tutorials (...to be run by, given by, and FOR students) 6:30 - 7:30 On-site Meeting Registration 7:30 - 10:00 Welcoming Reception --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, 24 JUNE Concurrent (but not colocated!) Boundary Layer and GGCM Campaigns 7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 10:10 Plenary Session (Chair - H. Spence) 8:30 - 8:35 GEM Workshop Welcome (H. Spence) 8:35 - 8:45 GEM Progam Overview and Status (J. Hughes) 8:45 - 9:00 NSF Program/GEM/NSWP Outlook (R. Clauer) 9:00 - 9:15 NSF ATM Status (R. Behnke) 9:15 - 10:10 Tutorial on GGCM modeling (R. Wolf) 10:10 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - BL Working Group splinter sessions BL Working Group #1 (L. Lyons/A. Rodger) BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) GGCM CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - GGCM Planning session & GGCM Assembly (R. Wolf) This will be a pure discussion session, with no scheduled presentations. The primary discussion topics will be: (1) formulation of an overall scheme for a GGCM computer code, and (2) organization of the GGCM campaign for the next few years. This is an open meeting. The following persons have indicated an interest in participating: Kozyra, Quest, Hudson, Schulz, Richmond, Raeder, White, Stahara, Spreiter, Fedder, Lyon, Toffoletto, Sonnerup, Drake, Wolf, Hesse, Siscoe 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:00 BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - BL Working Group splinter sessions BL Working Group #1 (L. Lyons/A. Rodger) BL Working Group #3 (N. Crooker/E. Friis-Christensen) GGCM CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - Space Weather (G. Siscoe) Presenters will include the following (not all confirmed): K. Doggett, summary of SEC Verification Workshop; K. Scro or alternate, 50th WS operational experience with MSM; H. Singer, space weather developments at SEC; P. Pratt,the TRW space weather project; J. Fedder, Numerical space weather fore- casting at SEC. 3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Break 3:30 - 5:00 BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - BL Working Group splinter sessions BL Working Group #1 (L. Lyons/A. Rodger) BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) GGCM CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - GGCM Science session (M. Hesse) Presenters include the following (not all confirmed): H. Petschek on global convection modeling; R. Lyatsky on connection between field-aligned currents and global convection, H. Spence on ring current modeling; F.Cheng on equilibrium modeling; J. Birn on the RCM/tail project; F. Toffoletto on the GEM RCM/MHD coupling project; J. Kozyra or R. Thorne on inner- magnetospheric loss; and contributions from other participants. 7:30 - 10:00 GGCM/BL Poster Session --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, 25 JUNE JOINT GGCM/BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 8:40 Boundary Layer/GGCM Introduction (Chair - G. Siscoe) 8:00 - 8:20 Setting the Scene (G. Siscoe) 8:20 - 8:40 Setting the Milestones (L. Lyons) 8:40 - 10:00 Joint GGCM/BL Session Progress Reports - Presentations by each of the 7 modelling groups (15 minutes/each + 5 minutes discussion): each group to hit the high and low spots on the comparison, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their model. 8:40 - 9:00 Group 1 9:00 - 9:20 Group 2 9:20 - 9:40 Group 3 9:40 - 10:00 Group 4 Parallel BL Session BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) 10:00 - 10:20 Morning Break 10:20 - 11:20 Joint GGCM/BL Session Progress Reports (continued) 10:20 - 10:40 Group 5 10:40 - 11:00 Group 6 11:00 - 11:20 Group 7 Parallel BL Session BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) 11:20 - 12:20 Plenary - "The way" forward discussion 12:20 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 2:30 Boundary Layer Campaign - Outstanding Problems/Direction: Plenary session to include (for example) a discussion of: a) Longitudinal width of the cusp & closed to open convection region (P. Reiff) b) Links between the dayside and nightside (R. Greenwald - tentative) 3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Break 3:30 - 4:15 BL Working Group 1, 2, and 3 Summary Sessions 4:15 - 5:00 Wrap-up Plenary; Working Group Reports and from chair(s) of modelling/data intercomparison session (Chair - L. Lyons) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE/STORM CAMPAIGN 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 10:35 Plenary and Tutorials Session (Chair - M. Hudson) 8:00 - 8:05 Introduction (M. Hudson) 8:05 - 9:05 CEDAR Space Weather Tutorials Equatorial Spread-F during Storms (M. Mendillo) Upper Atmospheric Modeling during Storms (A. Richmond) 9:05 - 10:35 GEM Space Weather Tutorials WG1. Plasmasphere refilling and ring current recovery (J. Horwitz) WG2. Storm injection mechanism:ring current & rad belts (D.Baker) WG3. Outer zone electron variability (M. Schulz) 10:35 - 11:00 Morning Break 11:00 - 12:00 Working Group 1, 2, and 3 splinter sessions 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 2:50 Working Group 1 and 2 splinter sessions 2:50 - 3:10 Afternoon Break 3:10 - 4:30 Working Group 2 and 3 splinter sessions 4:30 - 5:30 Campaign Definition Wrap-up Plenary 7:00 - 10:00 Reception and Banquet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, 27 JUNE TAIL/SUBSTORM CAMPAIGN 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 10:10 Tail/Substorm Plenary Session (Chair - H. Spence) 8:00 - 8:05 - Campaign Introduction/Welcome to Second Half (H.Spence) 8:05 - 8:50 - WG#1 Tutorial: POLAR Imaging in the X-ray (D. Chenette) 8:50 - 9:25 - WG#1 Tutorial: POLAR Imaging in the UV (G. Parks) 9:25 -10:10 - WG#1 Tutorial: POLAR Imaging in the Visible (L. Frank) 10:10 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 2 (Onsager/Spence) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#2 Theme: Fluid and Particle Aspects of Magnetotail Convection 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch Break 1:15 - 3:15 Working Group 2 (Onsager/Spence) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#2 Theme: (Joint with Working Group #3) WG#3 Theme: Mass Exchange with Electrodynamic Coupling between the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere - Observational constraints and ideas for empirical approaches (M. Temerin) - First principles approach to coupling large-scale ionospheric and magnetospheric simulation models (J. Sojka) 3:15 - 3:45 Afternoon Break 3:45 - 5:00 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#3 Theme: The Partial Ring Current-Inner Plasma Sheet Region - The tail-inner magnetosphere transition region (R. Wolf) 7:30 - 10:00 Tail/Substorm Poster Session --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, 28 JUNE TAIL/SUBSTORM CAMPAIGN (cont.) 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 9:30 Tail/Substorm Plenary Session (Chair - T. Onsager) - WG#2 Tutorial: GEOTAIL results on storm and substorm signatures in the tail (R. Nakamura) - WG#3 Tutorial: Macroscopic representations of microphysical processes in the plasmasheet (F. Coroniti) 9:30 - 10:45 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#3 Theme: Quantitative Aspects of Global MHD Models 9:30-10:00 GGS sponsored code comparisons (S. Curtis) 10:00-10:45 Open Forum: Where does the x-line first form at substorm onset in global models, what is the field topology, and what are the ionospheric signatures? Any participants with quantitative model results are invited to address this question. Expressed interest so far from: Birn, Curtis, Lyon, Raeder, Walker, Winglee 10:45 - 11:00 Morning Break 11:00 - 12:15 Working Group 2 (Onsager/Spence) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#2 Theme: Substorm Triggers: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy? WG#3 Theme II (continued) WG#3 Theme III:Future WG3 Directions - Snowmass 97 and Beyond 11:15 - 12:15 General Discussion 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:00 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 2 (Onsager/Spence) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#2 Theme: Data-Model Comparisons 3:00 - 3:25 Afternoon Break 3:25 - 3:45 Working Group 1, 2, and 3 Summary Sessions; Interim Tasks 3:45 - 4:45 Wrap-up Plenary; Working Group Reports (Chair - W. J. Hughes) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Harlan E. Spence Asst. 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