Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. USGS Planning Meeting (including Geomagnetism) on December 16 2. The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 20, Number 36 December 6, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. USGS Planning Meeting (including Geomagnetism) on December 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeffrey Love The USGS Hazards Science Strategy Planning Team (SSPT) will have a townhall meeting during the next AGU meeting: Thursday, Dec. 16th at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Moscone West Room 3006 At this meeting, input from the community will be sought on the hazards science conducted by the USGS. This will cover a broad range of topic, including earthquakes, volcanoes, etc., but it will also include geomagnetic research and magnetic observatory operation. Users of USGS geomagnetic observatory data (or Intermagnet data) are invited to attend, to lend their support, and ask questions. Jeffrey J Love USGS Advisor for Geomagnetic Research ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jean Lilensten, Anna Belehaki, Jurgen Watermann The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate http://www.swsc-journal.org/ Contact: swsc@edpsciences.org Space Weather is a quite new discipline. A definition approved by 24 countries states that "Space weather is the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. The associated discipline aims, through observation, monitoring, analysis and modelling, at understanding and predicting the state of the sun, the interplanetary and planetary environments, and the solar and non-solar driven perturbations that affect them; and also at forecasting and nowcasting the possible impacts on biological and technological systems." In turn, space climate deals with the middle and long term aspects of space weather, their manifestations in the heliosphere and their effects on planetary environments including the impacts on climate. We are happy to announce the birth of a new journal devoted to these disciplines: the "Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate" (SWSC) - http://www.swsc-journal.org/. The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate is an international multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary open access journal, which publishes papers on all aspects of space weather and space climate. Coverage includes, but is not limited to - fundamental and applied scientific research including theory, observation, data analysis, modelling, and prediction - technical applications and engineering solutions - impact on humans and technology in space, in the air, at sea and on land - societal and economic implications - educational and dissemination concepts and experiences - development of user-targeted products and services - scientific, technical, political and commercial initiatives SWSC accepts manuscripts related to space weather and to space climate from a broad range of fields including solar physics, space plasma physics, aeronomy, planetology, radio science, informatics, geophysics, biology, medicine, astronautic, aeronautic and electrical engineering, meteorology, climatology, mathematics, and economics. SWSC publishes regular research articles, short communications, invited reviews, technical and observational reports, strategic and educational articles and concise project reports. All manuscripts are peer reviewed. Accepted papers are published in electronic form only. SWSC is owned and published by EDP Sciences (http://maj.edpsciences.org/) with support from the Cooperation in Science and Technology office (http://www.cost.esf.org/) and Solar Terrestrial Center of Excellence (http://www.stce.be/). EDP Sciences maintains an electronic open access archive of all published material. SWSC will be indexed in Crossref and consequently appear in many international Digital Library reference systems. The first issue will be published in 2011, but - being an electronic- only journal - papers will be published once accepted and converted into the SWSC standard format. We invite you to submit articles to this new international journal. 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