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			 **   THE GEM MESSENGER   **
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						     Volume 6, Number 47
						     October 4, 1996

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Meeting Announcement - Space Weather: Research to Operations 
(Meeting Scheduled for January 16-17, 1997)
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From: "Singer, Howard" <hsinger at sec.noaa.gov>

Recent funding from the NSF/DoD for space weather modeling has brought us to 
a new stage in the National Space Weather Program where more emphasis is 
needed on the transition of models to operations. A meeting to concentrate 
on the near-term and future transition of research models and data into 
operational use will be held in Boulder, CO on January 16 and 17, 1997.  The 
meeting is being jointly organized by the NSF Division of Atmospheric 
Sciences, the AF Phillips Laboratory Geophysics Directorate and the NOAA 
Space Environment Center.   The purpose of this meeting is to provide a 
forum for space environment modelers and other researchers to interact with 
people from organizations that provide forecasts and services to space 
weather customers and to address the science problems that are important for 
space weather activities. The meeting will broaden the outlook of previous 
meetings, which concentrated on the GEM Global Geospace Circulation Model 
(GGCM), and will welcome participation from solar, interplanetary, 
magnetospheric, and ionospheric communities. The meeting will provide an 
opportunity for modelers to show tools that are currently available for 
transition to space weather services, and especially for recent recipients 
of  National Space Weather Program funding, from NSF/DoD, to show their 
plans and how they might interface with  Rapid Prototyping Centers and Space 
Weather Operations.

Convenors:: Howard Singer (SEC), Terry Onsager (SEC), Greg Ginet (AF) and 
Rich Behnke (NSF).
Program Committee Members: Bob Carovillano (NASA), Joe Huba (NRL), Jeff 
Hughes (GEM), Mike Mendillo (CEDAR) and Vic Pizzo (SHINE).

Additional details regarding the meeting agenda and logistics will be 
distributed shortly.


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