Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes GEM Focus Group: Call for Presentations at the 2013 GEM Summer Workshop 2. First announcement of the 12th International Conference on Substorms (ICS-12), Ise-Shima, Japan, November 10-14, 2014 ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 23, Number 9 May 28, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes GEM Focus Group: Call for Presentations at the 2013 GEM Summer Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrei Runov We would like to invite contributions to the Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes Focus Group at the upcoming GEM meeting in Snowmass on June 16-21, 2013. The Focus Group goals and other information are available at: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG12._Substorm_Expansion_Onset:_The_First_10_Minutes For this summer we plan four 1.5 hr-long sessions to discuss * Relative timing between onset signatures in space and on the ground * The role of magnetotail reconnection (distant and near-Earth) in substorms and substorm-related processes, such as pseudo-breakups, PBIs, streamers, and other substorm-related phenomena (joint with the RX Focus Group) * Substorm-related processes in the tail-dipole transition region * Substorm onset mapping (joint with the Magnetic Mapping and Techniques Focus Group). Since it is the Substorm Expansion Onset Focus Group final year, we plan to allocate 10 minutes of each session for the final report discussion. The workshop agenda is available at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/schedule.html Each speaker will be allotted time for 5 minutes (3 slides) presentation, in order to ensure enough time for discussion. Please submit tentative titles of your presentation and/or address your questions to the FG coordinators Vassilis Angelopoulos (vassilis at ucla.edu) Shin Ohtani (Shin.Ohtani atjhuapl.edu) Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp) Andrei Runov (arunov atigpp.ucla.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. First announcement of the 12th International Conference on Substorms (ICS-12), Ise-Shima, Japan, November 10-14, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kazuo Shiokawa The 12th International Conference on Substorms (ICS-12) Venue: Ise-Shima Royal Hotel, Shima, Japan http://www.daiwaresort.jp/en/ise/index.html/ Date: November 10-14, 2014 Over the half century since the first finding of the auroral substorm by Akasofu (1964), auroral and magnetospheric substorm has been one of the main topic for the scientists in space physics. Not only giving the spectacular auroral view, substorm contains various fundamental processes of plasma acceleration and dissipation in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere. Recent satellite missions of THEMIS and Van Allen Probes as well as several modeling efforts are giving more insights into the relationship between the mid-tail plasma sheet and the inner magnetosphere and the relationship between substorms and storms. Extended ground imager, radar, and magnetometer arrays provide more complex dynamical features of the magnetosphere during subtorms. During ICS-12 we are going to highlight the most recent results in substorm research. Topical sessions may cover substorm processes in the tail, interaction between the tail and the inner magnetosphere and ionosphere, substorm currents and its dynamics, and the role of substorm in geospace energetics, as well as the role of MHD and kinetic instabilities in substorms. Other substorm-related researches are also welcomed, such as storm-substorm relationship, ULF/ELF/VLF waves, and non-Earth substorm-like features. Ample opportunity will be given for discussions on the new results. Science Organizing Committee (SOC) Olaf Amm, Eric Donovan, Mei-Ching Fok, Masaki Fujimoto, Karl-Heinz Glasmeier, Marc Lessard, Mark Lester, Rumi Nakamura, Yoshiharu Omura, Andrei Runov, Mikhail Panasyuk, Ondrej Santolik, Jean-Andre Sauvaud, Kazuo Shiokawa (chair), Dave Sibeck, Xiaogang Wang +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+