Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. Call for Presentations at 2010 GEM Summer Workshop: Diffuse Aurora FG 2. Call for Participation in Dst Index Metrics Study in Preparation to 2010 GEM Summer Workshop: "GGCM Metrics and Validation Focus Group" ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 20, Number 10 May 5, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Call for Presentations at 2010 GEM Summer Workshop: "Diffuse Aurora FG" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Thorne The Diffuse Aurora Focus Group plans to hold 4 breakout sessions at the 2010 GEM meeting in Snowmass this summer. Potential contributors are invited to contact the session chairs listed below with a title of their talk, and prepare a brief presentation for the workshop. 1. Relationship between auroral phenomenology and scattering mechanisms. Monday June 21: 10:30-12:15: Co-chairs, Binbin Ni (bbni@atmos.ucla.edu) and Robert Michell (rmichell@swri.edu) 2. Modulation of DA brightness by large-scale magnetospheric processes. Monday June 21: 1:3-3:00: Co-chairs, Marilia Samara (marilia.samara@swri.org) and Jacob Bortnik (jbortnik@gmail.com ) 3. Spatial and temporal extent and spatio-temporal occurrence of DA/scattering mechanisms. Monday June 21: 3:30-5:00: Co-chairs, Toshi Nishimura (toshi@atmos.ucla.edu) and Richard Thorne (rmt@atmos.ucla.edu) 4. Importance of the DA for Geospace at the system level. Plans for next year. Tuesday June 22: 10:30-12:15: Chair, Richard Thorne (rmt@atmos.ucla.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Call for Participation in Dst Index Metrics Study in Preparation to 2010 GEM Summer Workshop: "GGCM Metrics and Validation Focus Group" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Masha Kuznetsova , Aaron Ridley , A new Dst index metrics study is added to the GEM Modeling Challenge organized by the GGCM Metrics and Validation Focus Group. Community Coordinating Modeling Center (CCMC) is supporting the Challenge. To participate in the Challenge please submit your model results using the web interface prior to June 1st, 2010. The results of the Challenge will be discussed at the GGCM Metrics and Validation Session at the GEM 2010 Summer Workshop. Joint publication by all participants is planned. For more details, go to the Challenge Web site: http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/GEM_metrics_08/ Please send questions, comments and suggestions to: Masha Kuznetsova (Maria.M.Kuznetsova@nasa.gov) and Aaron Ridley (ridley@umich.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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+