*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 18, Number 21 June 9, 2008 THE GEM 2008 SUMMER WORKSHOP * All Focus Group announcements can now be viewed at the GemWiki site (http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/2008_Summer_Workshop) * The GEM Workshop Website: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joint GEM-SHINE Sessions at 2008 GEM Summer Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Borovsky This is a reminder about the joint-GEM-SHINE sessions that will be held throughout the week of the GEM and SHINE meetings in Zermatt. Below is a list of the 8 joint-GEM-SHINE topics and the GEM and SHINE co-conveners for each topic. Attend the sessions or contact the co-conveners to participate. More details about the eight topics are available on the SHINE website at http://shinegroup.org/shine2008/GEMsessiondescription.html 1. "Multiple-Dip Geomagnetic Storms: Solar-Wind Drivers or Internal Magnetospheric Processes" SHINE co-convener: Jie Zhang jzhang7@gmu.edu SHINE co-convener: Ian Richarson ian.g.richardson@nasa.gov GEM co-convener: Vania Jordanova vania@lanl.gov Monday Afternoon: 1:30-5:00 2. "Creation and Propagation of CMEs and Plasmoids: Loss of Equilibrium and Subsequent Evolution" SHINE co-convener: Kathy Reeves kreeves@cfa.harvard.edu GEM co-convener: Joachim Birn jbirn@lanl.gov Tuesday Morning: 10:30-12:15 3. "Small-Scale Structure in the Solar Wind and Its Effect on Earth" SHINE co-convener: Joe Borovsky jborovsky@lanl.gov GEM co-convener: Beniot Lavraud Benoit.Lavraud@cesr.fr Tuesday Afternoon: 1:30-3:00 4. "Is there a Need for More-Detailed Solar-Wind Models" SHINE co-convener: Nick Arge Nick.Arge@Kirtland.af.mil GEM co-convener: Bob McPherron rmcpherr@igpp.ucla.edu Tuesday Afternoon: 3:30-5:00 5. "What Determines When Reconnection Turns On? Chromosphere, Corona, Solar Wind, Magnetopause, and Magnetotail" SHINE co-convener: Spiro Antiochus spiro.k.antiochos@nasa.gov GEM co-convener: Mike Shay shay@UDel.Edu Wednesday Morning: 10:30-12:15 6. "SEPs from Heliosphere to Magnetosphere" Candidate SHINE co-convener: Janet Luhmann jgluhman@ssl.berkeley.edu Candidate GEM co-convener: Mary Hudson mary.hudson@dartmouth.edu Thursday Morning: 10:30-12:15 7. "Comparing the Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in Various Environments" SHINE co-convener: Jack Gosling Jack.Gosling@lasp.colorado.edu GEM co-convener: Michael Hesse Michael.Hesse@nasa.gov Thursday Afternoon: 1:30-5:00 8. "Perpendicular Ion Heating: Observations at Earth and theory at the Sun" SHINE co-convener: Ben Chandran benjamin.chandran@unh.edu GEM co-convener: Bob Lysak bob@fields.space.umn.edu Friday Morning: 10:30-12:15 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To subscribe GEM Messengers, send an e-mail to | | with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: | | subscribe gem | |To remove yourself from the mailing list, the command is: | | unsubscribe gem | | | |To broadcast a message to the GEM community, please contact Peter Chi at | | | |Please use plain text as the format of your submission. | | | |Workshop Information: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html | |GEM Wiki Page: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+