*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 23, Number 3 February 21, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please provide feedback on GEM's draft White Paper ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Lotko The Director for the NSF GEM Program, Ray Walker, asked the GEM steering committee at its 2012 Summer meeting to develop a white paper that highlights (briefly) GEM program accomplishments and provides clear statements of the current program goals and strategy for achieving those goals. Ray also charged a planning group, including Jeff Hughes, Mike Liemohn, Bill Lotko (chair) and Kateriina Nykyri, to develop the white paper. First steps included discussion by the GEM steering committee of what such a white paper should include and suggestions on select program accomplishments to include in this brief document. The planning group presented a draft outline of the white paper to the GEM steering committee at its December (AGU) meeting and solicited feedback. Having incorporated the steering committee's suggestions into a revised draft, the planning group now solicits feedback from the broader community. The draft outline of the white paper can be downloaded at http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/DraftOutlineofGEMWhitePaper.pdf Please send your comments on the draft white paper to any or all members of the planning group by March 6. Jeff Hughes, hughes at bu.edu Mike Liemohn, liemohn at umich.edu Bill Lotko (chair), wlotko at dartmouth.edu Katariina Nykyri, nykyrik at erau.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. | | | | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+