Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. GEMstone Vol. 20 No. 1 Is Available Online 2. Agenda for 2010 GEM-ULTIMA Forum on Ground Magnetometers December 12, 2010, GEM Mini-workshop 3. Intermagnet 1-sec Data Standards ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 20, Number 37 December 10, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GEMstone Vol. 20 No. 1 Is Available Online ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: GEM Editor The 20th volume of the GEMstone newsletter is available online at: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/GEMstone/GEMstone_Vol20_No1.pdf The content includes: - Notes from NSF Program Director - Notes from GEM Chair - CCGM Research Area Report Metrics and Validation FG Modules and Methods FG - Dayside Research Area Report Cusp Physics FG The Magnetosheath FG Dayside FAC and Energy Deposition FG - Tail Research Area Report Plasma Entry and Transport FG Near Earth Magnetosphere FG Substorm Expansion Onset FG - IMS Research Area Report Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions FG Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling FG Space Radiation Climatology FG Diffuse Auroral Participation FG - GEM Student Report - GEM Steering Committee Report - SHINE Liaison Report - NASA Liaison Report - ESA Liaison Report - JAXA Liaison Report - Current GEM Structure - List of Active Focus Groups - GEM Contact List ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Agenda for 2010 GEM-ULTIMA Forum on Ground Magnetometers December 12, 2010, GEM Mini-workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Chi The GEM-ULTIMA Ground Magnetometer Forum will take place at the GEM Mini-workshop (Westin SF Market Street) in Cornell Room from 12:00pm to 4:30pm, Sunday, December 12, 2010. Below is the planned meeting agenda. In the GEM workshop spirit we can accommodate additional single-viewgraph presentations whenever time allows. Session A. Community Presentations on Ground Magnetometers: Including Stations, Data, and Observations 12:00-12:05 Welcome 12:05-12:25 Proposal to ULTIMA data usage ground rules (Kiyohumi Yumoto) 12:25-12:45 Chinese Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project (Chi Wang) 12:45-13:05 Intermagnet and its current work in developing 1-sec and quasi-definitive data (Jeffrey Love) 13:05-13:25 IUGONET: Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (Shuji Abe) 13:25-13:45 VxO Distribution of ULTIMA Data - Potential partnership with Canadian Space Science Data Portal (Roddi Potter) 13:45-14:05 Long-term Sq variations observed by MAGDAS magnetometers (Y. Yamazaki) Session B. ULTIMA Reports and Operation 14:20-14:25 Welcome 14:25-16:00 Updates from magnetometer arrays and data networks Magnetometer arrays: AAIMNet, AUTUMN, CARISMA, McMAC/Falcon, MACCS, MAGDAS, MEASURE, SAMBA, SEGMA, THEMIS, AMBER, IMAGE Data networks: SuperMAG, VMO 16:00-16:30 ULTIMA Business Meeting: Elections, discussion of next meeting, data citations, and more A PDF version of the full schedule is posted online at: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/Agenda-GEM-ULTIMA2010.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Intermagnet 1-sec Data Standards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeffrey Love (Please see the following online documents: INTERMAGNET One-second Standards Proposal: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/INTERMAGNET%20One-second%20Standards%20Proposal.pdf Quantisation Error of IAGA-2002 http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/Quantisation%20Error%20of%20IAGA-2002.pdf +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+