Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. Reconnection in the Magnetosphere GEM Focus Group: Call for Presentations at 2013 Summer Workshop 2. Announcing the AGU Joint Prize for Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves and Processes Prize 3. Call for Nominations for (1) Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award; (2) Sunanda and Santimay Basu United States Early Career Award (New Deadline: May 25, 2013) ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 23, Number 6 May 12, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Reconnection in the Magnetosphere GEM Focus Group: Call for Presentations at 2013 Summer Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrei Runov Dear Colleagues, We would like to solicit contributions to the "Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere" Focus Group sessions at the upcoming GEM meeting in Snowmass, Colorado on June 16 - 21, 2013. The Focus Group goals description and other information is available at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_Magnetic_Reconnection_in_the_Magnetosphere. Thus summer we plan four 1.5 hr-long sessions to discuss 1. Dayside reconnection and its relation to transient phenomena at the magnetopause and bow shock (joint with Dayside Transient FG); 2. Magnetotail reconnection and its role in substorms, pseudo breakups, PBIs and other substorm-related phenomena (joint with Substorm Onset FG); 3. General problems of magnetospheric reconnection. Nominally, the session activities will address Signatures of Kinetic Scale Reconnection Physics (a prelude to the launch of MMS), but contributions on any topic including onset, evolution, and consequences are welcomed We welcome contributions based upon data analysis, simulations, and theory. The tentative agenda of the workshop is available at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2013GEM_agenda.pdf. To follow the GEM philosophy and the informal workshop format, your presentations need to be short and concise (without AGU-style introductions and conclusions) in order to engender discussions. We strongly suggest preparing 5 slides or less and 5 min-long presentations focused strictly on the topic. We encourage presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Please submit a tentative topic of your presentation (to help us plan the session) and address your questions, if any, to Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Paul.Cassak@mail.wvu.edu Focus Group coordinators Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Paul.Cassak@mail.wvu.edu Homa Karimabadi, University of California, San Diego, homakar@gmail.com Andrei Runov, University of California, Los Angeles, arunov@igpp.ucla.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Announcing the AGU Joint Prize for Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves and Processes Prize ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert McCoy Deadline: 15 June 2013 The prize consists of a $10,000 monetary prize, an announcement in Eos, and an award plaque presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco during the award presentation year. The prize is made possible through the generosity of AGU members, Bruce T. Tsurutani and Olga P. Verkhoglyadova. In 2013, the award recognizes an individual for their scientific contribution to the field of space weather (the 2015 award will recognize an individual for their scientific contributions to nonlinear waves and processes); the contribution can take the form of a single significant and cutting-edge project or a lifetime of achievement. Eligible nominees must be current AGU members working in the field of space weather. For more information and eligibility requirements see: http://www.agu.org/honorsprogram/section_fg/awardnom_sfg.shtml#joint_prize ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Call for Nominations for (1) Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award; (2) Sunanda and Santimay Basu United States Early Career Award (New Deadline: May 25, 2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fabiano Rodrigues and Eftyhia Zesta We urge you to nominate young colleagues for the International and National Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Awards. The deadline for nominations has been extended to May 25, 2013. Below you will find detailed information for each Award. Please, feel free to contact the committee chairs (Dr. Fabiano Rodrigues - fabiano@utdallas.edu and Eftyhia.Zesta@nasa.gov) if you have any questions. (1) Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award (New Deadline: May 25, 2013) Established in 2008, the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award in Sun Earth Systems Science is presented annually to honor an individual young scientist from a developing nation for making outstanding contributions to research in Sun-Earth Systems Science that further the understanding of both plasma physical processes and their applications for the benefit of society. The award is open to scientists who received their Ph.D. degree after 15 May 2006 and currently live and work in developing nations. Consideration is to be given to candidates who have overcome obstacles in attaining their research objectives. The awardee will receive three years' membership in AGU; an award certificate; one complimentary ticket for the SPA section dinner; meeting registration, air travel, and living expenses (i.e., air travel and hotel room) will be provided to attend the Fall Meeting during the award presentation year; the opportunity to deliver an invited paper on the dissertation topic in an appropriate SPA session at the AGU Fall Meeting; and an Eos announcement. Nominations should be prepared by an AGU member or other geoscientist who is knowledgeable of the candidate's qualifications. Nominations should include: - Nominator's name and title, address, and contact numbers; - Nominee's name and title, institutional affiliation, and address; - A statement - not to exceed two pages - of the action(s) or achievement(s) for which the candidate is nominated; - Two (2) letters of support from AGU members or from other recognized geoscientists belonging to institutions other than that of the nominee; and - The nominee's curriculum vitae (not to exceed 3 pages). To view a list of previous Basu Award recipients, please visit: http://www.agu.org/honorsprogram/section_fg/spa/ Nominations must be submitted by deadline in electronic form (preferred as one combined PDF file) to Danica Williams (dwilliams@agu.org) or in hard copy to: American Geophysical Union Attn: Danica Williams Science Department 2000 Florida Avenue NW Washington, DC, 20009, USA Telephone: +1.202.777.7513 You can also contact the Chair of the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Award Committee with questions: Dr. Fabiano Rodrigues (fabiano@utdallas.edu) (2) Sunanda and Santimay Basu United States Early Career Award (New Deadline: May 25, 2013). The Basu United States Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science is an addition to the original Basu Early Career award and will be awarded for the first time in 2013. This award seeks to recognize an individual early career scientist who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident within three years of obtaining a Ph.D. degree and for demonstrating scientific success in studying the plasma physical processes that couple Earth's atmosphere to driving mechanisms in the magnetosphere, solar wind, and Sun. The individual should show the talent needed to complete future work in those areas of space weather and their applications for the benefits to society. This award is open to US citizens and permanent residents that have completed their PhD after May 15, 2010 by a US institution. The recipient will be invited to present a paper at AGU's Fall Meeting at an appropriate session and will receive a $1,000 cash award. The award will be presented at the Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section's dinner so attendance at the Fall Meeting is mandatory. The awardee will also be presented with a certificate of appreciation, three years' membership in AGU and a complimentary ticket to the SPA dinner. Nominations should be prepared by an AGU member who is not the thesis advisor, but who is knowledgeable of the candidate's qualifications. Nominations should include: * Nominator's name and title, address, and contact numbers; * Nominee's name and title, institutional affiliation, and address; * A statement (not to exceed two pages) of the work for which the candidate is nominated * Three (3) letters of support from AGU members; and * The nominee's curriculum vitae (not to exceed 3 pages). All nomination packets should be in conformance to AGU's Conflict of Interest Policy. Nominations must be submitted by deadline in electronic form (preferred as one combined PDF file) to Danica Williams (dwilliams at agu.org>) or in hard copy to: American Geophysical Union Attn: Danica Williams Science Department 2000 Florida Avenue NW Washington, DC, 20009, USA Telephone: +1.202.777.7513 You can also contact the Chair of the Sunanda and Santimay Basu United States Award Committee with questions: Dr. Eftyhia Zesta (Eftyhia.Zesta@nasa.gov) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+