Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. The CEDAR-GEM Joint Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 26 - July 1, 2011: First Call to Propose Joint Workshops 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, fields and coupling " Focus Group Session at the 2010 GEM Mini-workshop 3. CORRECTION: Location and Time for PET Focus Group Meeting at 2010 GEM Mini-workshop ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 20, Number 31 November 16, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The CEDAR-GEM Joint Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico June 26 - July 1, 2011: First Call to Propose Joint Workshops ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Ruohoniemi The CEDAR-GEM Joint Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 26-July 1, 2011 Theme: 'Exploring Connections in the Geospace System' First Call to Propose Joint Workshops In 2011 the annual CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) and GEM (Geospace Environment Modeling) workshops will be held as a Joint Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the interests of promoting meaningful scientific interaction and collaboration in areas of common interest, the two scientific steering committees have agreed to integrate significant portions of their scientific, student, poster, and social programs. A CEDAR-GEM joint taskforce has been established to facilitate the coordination of shared activities. The members of the taskforce are listed at the end of this notice. Please direct questions regarding the joint program to any member. The Meeting theme given above has been defined to emphasize the integrated aspect of the 2011 Joint Meeting. The CEDAR and GEM meetings both conduct topical workshops that are focused on particular research objectives. The traditions differ in that GEM workshops are usually organized by the coordinators of empanelled Focus Groups of several years duration while CEDAR workshops are proposed and approved annually in the lead up to the meeting. With this notice we encourage GEM Research Area Coordinators and Focus Group Leaders and CEDAR attendees to begin to develop and propose joint workshops. These should have both GEM and CEDAR co- conveners. The following links may be helpful. http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Focus_Groups gives a listing of the current GEM focus groups and their leaders. http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2010:Workshop:Workshop_List gives a listing of CEDAR workshop themes and their conveners from the 2010 meeting. This cross-listing is not meant to be restrictive; attendees may propose novel and promising themes for joint sessions. Research areas that do not lend themselves to integration will be organized and conducted in the usual way by the respective GEM and CEDAR organizing committees. Potential workshop conveners are asked to either (i) notify the taskforce that you have identified a theme for a joint workshop and colleagues in the other community to serve as co-conveners, or, (ii) notify the taskforce that you have identified a suitable theme and request that the taskforce assist you with the identification of potential co-conveners. At this stage, we are requesting that you provide the theme of your proposed joint workshop, a brief description, and at least the beginning of a list of conveners. Direct this information to a member of the taskforce by January 15, 2011 or submit the information via the appropriate link on the CEDAR Wiki at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Main. Consideration of proposals for joint workshops including discussions with proposers will be carried out in January. The program of the Joint workshops will be finalized in March. Looking forward to an exciting meeting in Santa Fe! Mike Ruohoniemi (Taskforce chair) mikeruo@vt.edu For CEDAR-GEM Taskforce members: (CEDAR) John Foster jcf at haystack.mit.edu Barb Emery emery at ucar.edu Tim Fuller Rowell tim.fuller-rowell at noaa.gov Josh Semeter jls at bu.edu (GEM) Mike Liemohn liemohn at umich.edu Bob Clauer rclauer at vt.edu Bill Lotko william.lotko at dartmouth.edu Bob Strangeway strange at igpp.ucla.edu David Murr murrdl at augsburg.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, fields and coupling " Focus Group Session at the 2010 GEM Mini-workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sorin Zaharia , Stan Sazykin , Benoit Lavraud and Colby Lemon The Near Earth Magnetosphere focus group will hold a mini GEM workshop session at the Westin San Francisco Market Street hotel (50 Third St.) on Sunday Dec. 12, 2010 from 4:30 to 6:00 PM. For a full schedule of the mini-workshop see http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/MiniWorkshopSchedule_GEM2010_r3.pdf Our focus group session discussions will include: 1). planning of activities for the 2011 joint GEM-CEDAR Workshop; 2). Phase 1 (modeling an idealized storm event) of the Near Earth Magnetosphere Challenge, and 3). General presentations. We welcome short presentations on any topic aligned with the 2 research fronts of our focus group: 1. Data-based/empirical models of fields and particles in the near- Earth magnetosphere 2. Physics-based modeling including coupling between plasma, electric and magnetic fields in the inner magnetosphere Please send us the title of your contribution at the email addresses listed above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. CORRECTION: Location and Time for PET Focus Group Meeting at 2010 GEM Mini-workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: GEM Editor This message is to correct the location and time for the Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (PET) Focus Group Meeting published in GEM Messenger, Volume 20, Number 30. The correct meeting time and location is: 04:30-06:30 PM, Sunday, December 12 Westin San Francisco Market Street, 50 Third Street, San Francisco (during the 2010 GEM Mini-workshop) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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. | | | | GEM Messenger is also posted online via newsfeed at | | http://heliophysics.blogspot.com and | | http://www.facebook.com/heliophysics | | | | Back issues are available at ftp://igpp.ucla.edu/scratch/gem/ | | | | URL of GEM Home Page: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki | | Workshop Information: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+