*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 11, Number 24 August 6, 2001 ---------------------------------------------------- Minutes of GEM Steering Committee Meeting 22 June 01 ---------------------------------------------------- From: "Mary K. Hudson" The GEM Steering Committee met on Fri 22 June at noon to discuss: 1. Plans for June 02 & 03 meetings; will be held at Snowmass, with session outline basicly the same as this year's (Toffoletto). We are meeting the last week in June, as in preceeding years, with student tutorials on Sunday and regular M-F sessions, ending Friday noon. SHINE plans to meet again in Snowmass in the future, but in Banff Canada next year. CEDAR will be contacted about a joint session next year, especially focusing on the MI Coupling campaign. 2. Report on join activities with SHINE this year (Hudson, Birn). Generally successful, worth having joint sessions again. 3. Campaign reports: Hughes reported for MI Coupling, Chan for Inner Mag/Storms, along with working group co-chairs present. a)MI Coupling appears to be off to a very good start, with proposals from the GEM community faring well in the first funding cycle. A mini-workshop at Fall AGU is planned, along with initiation of an Energy Budget Challenge. b)Inner Mag/Storms has completed three years of funding, and is benefiting from the availability of new data (IMAGE) and data analysis techniques (phase space density comparisons with model predicitons). See Working Group reports for further details. c)A report from Larry Lyons on Tail/Substorms was received. T/S plans for '02 include 5-6 sessions and 4-5 for '03. Next year, 1-2 sessions on Triggering; 1 session on Observations, including new ENA observations of onset. 3 sessions of SMC working group (Steady Magnetospheric Convection), including analysis of selected events, joint with MI Coupling campaign. Lyons asks: Is new module development with new (improved) physics still being encouraged, hopefully? Two more years is projected for T/S campaign. d)A detailed report from GGCM was received from George Siscoe, to be published separately in the GEM Messenger. In summary, the first Metrics Challenge was successfully completed; there will be a continuation at ~ two year intervals as codes improve, maintaining the present metrics with additional data comparisons, see full report. The GGCM steering committee will be dissolved, with Raeder and Birn representing GGCM on the GEM steering committee. Michael Hesse will represent the CCMC at GEM. 4. Agency reports Howard Singer was present to report for NOAA; NSF (Baker) and NASA (Hesse) reports were deferred to December meeting because of flight cancellations. 5. Student tutorials, issues David Murr reported another successful day of student tutorials on Sat, and a growing percentage of participation by women. The student distribution between campaigns is apporximately: 40 interested in IM/S; 25 each in MI Coupling and T/S; 10 in GGCM, counting multiple interests. Maria Spasojevic from Stanford was selected as the next student representative to the GEM steering committee. 6. Hudson reported on/encouraged input to the NAS Decadal Survey in progress. 7. International liason reports Brian Fraser reported on FedSat, to be launched next year by the Australians, and an update on groundbased facilities like the Superdarn Tasmanian radar. Yuri Galperin reported for Russia and collaborators that Magion 5 is still working, and several new projects are in the works: Coronus F scheduled for launch next year; Resonance, which would pass through L=4.5 above the HARP radar, is being built for an '05 launch; an Interbal Prognoz is proposed for space weather studies, for launch to L1 with fuel to go to L2; 4 satellites to study reconnection at 12 R_E in the magnetopause-cusp region have been proposed. Mike Pinnock of BAS reported for the UK. Cluster is acquiring splendid data on mass loading from the ionosphere. U. Sheffield has added tides to ionosphere-thermosphere studies. SPEAR radar is being develped, operated by Leicester U. An ionospheric heater has been added to Svalbard, along with Eiscat refurbishing last summer. 8. Steering Committee membership will be discussed at the Dec meeting, with Kyle Baker and a current membership list available. Meeting adjourned at 1:45, to allow people to drive to Denver for flights. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To add name to the mailing list or for a message to the GEM community | | please contact: editor at igpp.ucla.edu | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html | |Please update your e-mail address. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+