Table of Contents ============================================================================ 1. GEM Steering Committee Meeting Notes Available 2. 2009 AGU Joint Assembly, 24-27 May 2009, Toronto, Canada Union Session (U06): Connecting Atmospheric, Space, and Planetary Sciences, Abstracts due 4 March 2009, 2359UT at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja09/index.php 3. PFISR/RISR Student Workshop, July 13-17, 2009, Menlo Park, CA ============================================================================ *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 19, Number 2 February 21, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GEM Steering Committee Meeting Notes Available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bob Clauer The GEM Steering Committee notes from the December Mini-workshop meeting are now available at the GemWiki site http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/ (see "What's New"). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 2009 AGU Joint Assembly, 24-27 May 2009, Toronto, Canada Union Session (U06): Connecting Atmospheric, Space, and Planetary Sciences, Abstracts due 4 March 2009, 2359UT at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja09/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Natasha Andronova Janet Kozyra Luis Eduardo Vieira < vieira@mps.mpg.de> We would like to invite you to submit an abstract and play a part in an exciting union session described below. FOCUS: Questions that link together the Sun's evolution, the future states of the Earth's atmosphere and the physical processes common to planetary atmospheres. This session focuses on the processes that connect changes at the solar surface with features in the geospace and planetary environments that will ultimately lead to a better understanding of climate variability, and, in fact, of any large-scale complex system. Given the importance of these issues, a closer interaction between atmospheric, planetary and space scientists is needed (and supported here) to share information from different perspectives and evaluate the state of our knowledge and modeling capabilities. Please join us in an interesting interdisciplinary interaction. A FEW EXAMPLES OF FOCUS ISSUES: -- Chemistry and dynamics of polar vortices on the Earth and other planets and their role in bringing space weather effects to lower altitudes -- System-level response of the heliosphere and planetary environments to solar wind high-speed streams, or coronal mass ejections and resulting long- term trends -- Predictions of future (or explanations of past) solar variability and their impacts at Earth and other planets -- Reasons for the unusual aspects of the current solar minimum and the associated responses in geospace and other planetary environments -- New information about long-term space and atmospheric climate trends -- New insights about how solar irradiance changes are amplified to drive climate variability at the Earth and nonlinear aspects at other planets. INVITED PROGRAM Invited speakers (listed below) have agreed to summarize the state of our knowledge in key areas. Ted Shepherd --- University of Toronto Marv Geller -- Stony Brook University Joanna Haigh -- Imperial College Scott Bailey -- Virginia Tech Dan Baker – LASP, University of Colorado Chris Russell -- UCLA Sam Yee -- APL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. PFISR/RISR Student Workshop, July 13-17, 2009, Menlo Park, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Phil Erickson A student workshop (http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/) aimed at providing students with hands-on experience in designing and running experiments at the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) and the Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR) will be held at SRI International Menlo Park, CA, July 13 - 17, 2009. This workshop is the second of several student workshops aimed at teaching a new generation of scientists how to request and analyze incoherent scatter radar (ISR ) experiments. It is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The morning lectures will include an introduction to the theory of incoherent scatter, radar operations, ISR analysis techniques, and the Madrigal data base. The afternoon exercises will involve working closely with Upper Atmospheric Facility (UAF) staff in the topic areas of: proposal design, experiment execution, and data analysis. The workshop is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Attendance is limited to 16 students. For students within the U.S., travel, housing and most meals will be provided. For students outside of the U.S., travel is not included. The deadline (strict) for application submission is 31 March 2009. The application can be found at http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/workshop/. The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through its Upper Atmospheric Facility Program within the Geosciences Directorate. Questions or comments can be addressed to: Anthea Coster 781-981-5753 ajc@haystack.mit.edu Philip Erickson pje@haystack.mit.edu Elizabeth Kendall elizabeth.kendall@sri.edu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |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. | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/GemWiki | |Workshop Information: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+