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                                                        Volume 18, Number 26
                                                            October 10, 2008
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GEMstone Vol. 18 No. 1 Is Available Online
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From: Editor <editor@igpp.ucla.edu>

A new issue of the GEMstone newsletter is available online at:

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/GEMstone/GEMstone_Vol18_No1.pdf

The content includes:

- Notes from NSF Program Director
- Notes from the Chair
- Focus Group Reports
  1.  GGCM Metrics and Validation
  2.  Modules and Methods
  3.  Foreshock, Bow shock, Magnetosheath
  4.  Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (PET)
  5.  Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection
  6.  Cusp Physics
  7.  MICET
  8.  Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, Fields and Coupling
  9.  Space Radiation Climatology
  10. Diffuse Auroral Participation
  11. Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (PMI)
  12. Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes
  13. Modes of Solar Wind – Magnetosphere Energy Transfer
- Joint GEM-SHINE Sessions
- NSF CEDAR-GEM-DASI Report
- GEM Student Report
- GEM Steering Committee Minutes
- GEM Contact List
- GEM Structure


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