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1. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Plasma Entry and Transport into and
   within the Magnetotail (PET)" Focus Group at the GEM 2009 Summer Workshop
2. 2009 Summer Workshop Information at GemWiki
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1. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Plasma Entry and Transport into and
   within the Magnetotail (PET)" Focus Group at the GEM 2009 Summer Workshop
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From: Antonius Otto <ao [at] how.gi.alaska.edu>,
      Jay R. Johnson <jrj [at] pppl.gov>, and
      Simon Wing <Simon.Wing [at] jhuapl.edu>

We would like to invite contributions to the PET focus group at the upcoming 
GEM workshop in Snowmass on June 21-26, 2009.  The sessions will be held in 
a workshop (NOT AGU) style in which each speaker will be allotted time for a 
2-3 slides, in order to ensure enough time for discussion.  In order to 
encourage this, at least one of the slides should deal with unresolved 
issues.  Speakers are encouraged to end the presentation with outstanding 
questions rather than a summary of what has/have been accomplished.  It is 
expected that there will be three sessions: (1) Plasma entry into the 
Magnetosphere; (2) Plasma transport in the plasma sheet; and (3) M-I 
coupling and magnetotail transport.  Sessions 1 and 2 have been tentatively 
scheduled on Jun 22 Tues afternoon while session 3 on Jun 23 Wed afternoon 
(See http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html for the definitive schedule).  If 
you have not already done so, please send the title(s) and session(s) of 
your contribution(s) to us at your earliest convenience at the email 
addresses listed below.  

The following lists a brief description of these three sessions. 

Plasma Entry into the Magnetosphere
The session invites contributions on (a) morphology (plasma properties, time 
scales, dawn dusk-asymmetry etc.) of plasma entry at the magnetospheric 
boundaries, (b) mechanisms, models, and observation specific for northward 
IMF, (c) mechanism and physics for southward IMF,  and (d) entry rates and 
physics that processes the newly entering plasma (modification of 
distribution functions, local entropy, fluxtube entropy,..)

Plasma Transport in the Plasmasheet
This session focuses on the topics of (a) convective vs turbulent transport 
for northward and southward IMF, (b) constraints to convection (entropy, 
boundary conditions), (c) mapping of convection to the ionosphere, 
observations, ionospheric influence on convection or turbulence, (d) 
mechanisms and related observations for convection and turbulence in the 
plasma sheet (recovery phase, bursty bulk flows; steady magnetospheric 
convection, etc.).

M-I Coupling and Magnetotail Transport
The session invites contributions on (a) the morphology of ion outflow 
(Fluxes, outflow locations, concentrations and distribution in the plasma 
sheet), (b) time scales of ion outflow, (c) solar wind dependence, (d) 
heating of the cold ionospheric material, (e) ionospheric influence on 
transport in the magnetosphere.

Simon Wing (simon.wing [at] jhuapl.edu)
Antonius Otto (ao [at] how.gi.alaska.edu)
Jay Johnson (jrj [at] pppl.gov)

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2. 2009 Summer Workshop Information at GemWiki
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From: Peter Chi <pchi at igpp.ucla.edu>

GemWiki has included the recent calls by GEM focus groups for participation 
at the 2009 Summer Workshop.  Details can be found at:

http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/2009_Summer_Workshop

Further calls for participation will be incorporated into this GemWiki page.

Please also note that the pre-registration deadline of the Summer Workshop 
is June 5, 2009.  If you have not registered please do so online at the GEM 
Workshop web site http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/registration.html to enjoy the 
discount rate.


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