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						     Volume 16, Number 17
						     June 6, 2006

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Request for Community Input
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From: Bob Strangeway <strange at igpp.ucla.edu>

To all GEM 2006 Summer Workshop participants:

The Inner Magnetosphere/Storms (IM/S) campaign will be terminating this 
year. The GEM Community therefore needs to identify a new campaign to take 
the place of the IM/S Campaign. Part of the Friday afternoon plenary 
session at this Summer's workshop has been set aside for discussion of 
possible new GEM campaigns.

I am therefore soliciting ideas for a new campaign from the GEM 
participants. Please either send me a brief summary of a new campaign that 
I can present on your behalf, or if you prefer, a request to speak in the 
plenary session.

I also welcome comments on the following ideas and discussion points for a 
new campaign.

The last few campaigns have emphasized regions. Is it now time for a 
campaign that emphasizes either methodologies or physical processes?

I would like to suggest the following campaign topics

(1) Multipoint observations (methodology based). This is geared towards
THEMIS-era science, but without necessarily concentrating on substorms. 
Working groups or topics could include: ground-based observatories - 
ground truth for space-based observations; Simulations as connective 
tissue for multi-spacecraft and ground observations (with GGCM liaison); 
Substorm science; Dayside multi-point (with GI liaison).

(2) Microphysics and macrophysical impacts (process based). This campaign 
would be geared towards exploring physical processes to be ingested into 
GGCM-like models. This campaign would have a strong interaction with the 
GGCM Science Steering Committee. Working groups could be: the auroral 
acceleration region; inner magnetosphere wave-particle interactions; 
reconnection physics (with GI liaison).

These are just ideas to get the discussion started. As noted above I 
welcome comments on these ideas, as well as other campaign suggestions. I
also encourage as many GEM participants as possible to stay for the Friday 
afternoon plenary session. It is important that we get as much input from 
the community as possible.

Regards,
Bob Strangeway
GEM Steering Committee Chair

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