Table of Contents ============================================================================ 1. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2007 2. Call for GEM Participation in 2007 Joint Assembly Special Session SM03: Distortions of Inner Magnetospheric Electric and Magnetic Fields ============================================================================ *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 17, Number 4 February 15, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: W. J. Hughes Space Weather Phenomena, Consequences, and Modeling or Reality, Harsh Reality, and Virtual Reality July 23 - August 3, 2007 Boston University The seventh Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) Summer School will be held at Boston University July 23 - August 3, 2007. The two- week school will closely follow the model of the previous successful Summer Schools, which comprehensively immersed students in the subject of space weather, what it is, what it does, and what can be done about it. The CISM summer school supplements standard curricula relating to the physics, meteorology, and climatology of space with integrated overviews of the solar-terrestrial weather system from the Sun to the earth, its effects and consequences, and the state of the art in modeling it. A unique feature of the school is a series of three-hour computer labs to learn how to use models being developed by CISM to understand the space environment and to make space weather predictions. The team of instructors will be led by Jeffrey Hughes, Harlan Spence, Ramon Lopez, and John Lyon. The school is intended primarily for students about to enter graduate school in the space sciences or early in their graduate careers. We encourage supervisors to recommend the school to their prospective or current students. However others with a professional interest in space weather have also attended and benefited from earlier schools. Further details and the application form, including a request for financial support, can be found under Summer School on the CISM web site at http://www.bu.edu/CISM/ Applications are due by May 1. CISM is an NSF Science and Technology Center. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Call for GEM Participation in 2007 Joint Assembly Special Session SM03: Distortions of Inner Magnetospheric Electric and Magnetic Fields -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vania Jordanova < vania at lanl.gov> & Mike Liemohn < liemohn at umich.edu> Dear GEM community We would like to draw your attention to a special session organized at the 2007 Joint Assembly in Acapulco, Mexico. The session is dedicated to understanding the causes and effects of electric and magnetic field distortions in the inner magnetosphere (please see the description below). It will be a GEM-style session (as well as SM04 and SM07) with time for open discussion built into the oral session. We would like to invite you to participate in it and help establish more discussion-oriented sessions at AGU meetings. Thanks, Vania Jordanova & Mike Liemohn ========================= SM03 Session Description: ========================= The inner magnetospheric electric and magnetic fields exhibit distortions on a variety of temporal and spatial scales during storms. These field distortions strongly influence the evolution of energetic ion and electron populations in near-Earth space, whose dynamics subsequently modify the fields. In recent years there is an increasing need for better understanding of inner magnetospheric electric and magnetic field variability and the coupling between plasmas and fields. As more sophisticated technologies are placed into space, the development of space weather predictive models is required, which is impossible without a thorough comprehension of these processes. In this special session we solicit papers discussing the processes and populations that cause these field distortions, the characterizations of the distortions as a function of external drivers, and the feedback of these distortions on processes and populations in the region, including nonlocal and global consequences of the distortions. Any oral sessions assigned to this special session will be intentionally informal, with short presentations followed by open discussion time. Conveners: Vania Jordanova (Los Alamos National Laboratory, email: vania@lanl.gov) Michael Liemohn (University of Michigan, email: liemohn@umich.edu) Important Dates: 15 February 2007: Deadline for Berkner Travel Fellowship application. 1 March 2007 : Deadline for online abstract submissions. 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