*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 20, Number 39 December 13, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New GEM Focus Group Selections ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Liemohn The GEM Steering Committee is pleased to announce the selection of three proposals for new Focus Groups: FG Name: Metrics and Validation Leaders: Masha Kuznetsova, Aaron Ridley, Howard Singer, Lutz Rastaetter, and Tim Guild FG Name: The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma: Measuring, Modeling, and Merging Into the GEM GGCM Leaders: Bob Schunk, Rick Chappell, and Dan Welling FG Name: Scientific Magnetic Mapping and Techniques Leaders: Eric Donovan, Liz MacDonald, and Robyn Millan These Focus Groups will begin immediately, with full session participation at the Summer 2011 Workshop (which, by the way, is being jointly held with CEDAR on June 27-July 1). They will all last for 5 years, with their final summer workshop sessions in 2015. The GEM Steering Committee would like to thank all of those who wrote proposals this year. GEM is driven by grassroots participation, and we greatly appreciate the time and effort put into writing these proposals and volunteering to lead sessions and activities within the magnetospheric physics community. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+