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                                                       Volume 17, Number 20
                                                             August 6, 2007
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An Open Letter to the GEM Inner Magnetosphere Community
Regarding FG9 - Space Radiation Climatology
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From: Paul O'Brien <Paul.Obrien at aero.org>

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   * GEM FG9 - Space Radiation Climatology      *
   * Newsletter - Volume 1, Number 1, August 2007 *
   * Paul O'Brien (paul.obrien-at-aero.org)     *
   * Geoff Reeves (reeves-at-lanl.gov)          *
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Subject: An open letter to the GEM Inner Magnetosphere Community
   regarding FG9 - Space Radiation Climatology.

Greetings,

This past June, at the annual GEM Summer Workshop, we had a successful
kick-off of the new focus group FG9 on Space Radiation Climatology. We
are presently set up to build data-assimilative, physics-based models
of the radiation belts and plasmas in the inner magnetosphere, to run
those models for a complete solar cycle, and then to use the resulting
"reanalysis climatology" to develop our physical understanding of the
inner magnetosphere. It may be that we have bitten off more than we
can chew, so there are ongoing discussions with the GEM Steering
Committee as to what, if anything, needs to be done about our scope.

One of the results of our discussions was the need to stay in touch
between GEM functions. This is the first of what will likely be
monthly email updates. For more detailed and more frequent updates,
consult the ViRBO wiki at http://virbo.org/wiki/index.php/GEM2007. For
those of you interested in receiving future email updates, please
follow the instructions below to join our email list.

In other news, NSF will only fund 6-7 new GEM proposals this year, so
we will have to be creative to secure funds for our focus group.

Thank you all. You will not receive any further FG9 Newsletters unless
you subscribe to the email group. Special thanks to Bob Weigel for
hosting our Wiki and setting up the email group.

Paul O'Brien
GEM/FG9 Co-Chair

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