REMINDERS: (1) All published Focus Group announcements for the 2013 Summer Workshop can be found at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/2013_Summer_Workshop (2) GEM poster titles must be submitted no later than Wednesday, June 5. Go to http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/poster.html for details. Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures Focus Group: Call for Presentations at the 2013 GEM Summer Workshop 2. International CAWSES-II Symposium November 18-22, 2013, Nagoya, Japan Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013 ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 23, Number 12 June 3, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures Focus Group: Call for Presentations at the 2013 GEM Summer Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hui Zhang The "Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures" focus group will hold four sessions at the upcoming GEM Workshop in Snowmass, CO, June 16-21, 2013. Session 1: 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm on Monday (June 17) Foreshock Phenomena Session 2: 10:30 am - 12:15 pm on Tuesday (June 18) Ground Signatures Session 3: 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm on Tuesday (June 18) Magnetopause Phenomena (joint with Reconnection FG) Session 4: 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm on Tuesday (June 18) Planning Session If you would like to present in this focus group sessions, please send a tentative title of your presentation to hzhang@gi.alaska.edu The Focus Group description is available at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_Transient_Phenomena_at_the_Magnetopause_and_Bow_Shock_and_Their_Ground_Signatures You can also find a table and a short description of some transient foreshock phenomena, together with a list of Hot Flow Anomaly and Foreshock Bubble event at this webpage. You are more than welcome to investigate these events and their ionospheric response. We hope to see you soon at GEM! Focus Group Coordinators: Hui Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks (hzhang@gi.alaska.edu) Q.-G. Zong, University of Massachusetts Lowell (qgzong@gmail.com) Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Polytechnic and State University (mikeruo@vt.edu) David Murr, Augsburg College (murrdl@augsburg.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. International CAWSES-II Symposium November 18-22, 2013, Nagoya, Japan Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kazuo Shiokawa The abstract submission deadline is approaching in one month for the International CAWSES-II Symposium which will be held on November 18-22, 2013, at Nagoya, Japan. Please submit your abstract in your earliest convenience from http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/cawses2013/. This International CAWSES-II Symposium hosted by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss the scientific accomplishments of CAWSES-II and look forward to SCOSTEP's future programs at a moment toward the end of its five-year period. Deadlines: Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2013 Financial support request deadline: June 30, 2013 Early registration deadline: August 31, 2013 Session structures (detailed session descriptions are available on the above web site): Tutorial Lectures: Joseph M. Davilla, Toshitaka Tsuda, Lesley J. Gray, Jan Lastovicka, Bruce Tsurutani, Herman Luehr, and Peter Fox Panel 1: Long time change/trend of the sun-earth system Coordinator: K. Kusano (STEL, Nagoya U.) Panel 2: Variability of the sun-earth system Coordinator/Moderator: J. Oberheide (Clemson U.) Panel 3: Beyond the CAWSES-II Coordinator/Moderator: N. Gopalswamy (NASA) SS-1: Solar Influences on Earth's Climate Session leaders: Ilya Usoskin, Katja Matthes, Annika Seppala SS-2: Geospace Response to Altered Climate Session leaders: Jan Lastovicka, Daniel Marsh, Gufran Beig SS-3: Short-term Solar Variability and Geospace Session leaders: Kazunari Shibata, Joe Borovsky, Yoshiharu Omura SS-4: Geosphace Response to Lower Atmospheric Waves Session leaders: Jens Oberheide, Kazuo Shiokawa, Subramanian Gurubaran SS-5: eScience and Informatics Successes and Challenges for CAWSES-II Session leaders: Peter Fox, Janet Kozyra, Yasuhiro Murayama Sincerely yours, Mamoru Yamamoto, Takuji Nakamura, Kazuo Shiokawa, and Nat Gopalswamy, Conveners of CAWSES2013 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+