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                                                  Volume 23, Number 33
                                                     November 11, 2013
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Call for Proposals for New GEM Focus Groups
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From: The GEM Steering Committee 
 
The GEM Steering Committee (SC) is now accepting proposals for new 
Focus Groups (FGs).  This call is open until December 1st.  Please 
follow the proposal guidelines in the GEM by-laws:
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Bylaws 
 
The proposals should be 2 pages in length, organized under the 
following headings, and in the following order: 
 
1) Topic (a description of the topic) 
2) Timeliness (a statement on timeliness of the proposed FG) 
3) Fit (how does the FG would relate to existing FGs... e.g., 
   compliment?, duplicate?) 
4) Goal&  Deliverable (specific goal and target deliverable*) 
5) Co-chairs (names of the proposed co-chairs) 
6) Research Area (the Research Area with which it will be associated) 
7) Term (5 years or less from summer 2014) 
8) Expected activities (for example topics of sessions or challenges) 
 
*Deliverables can be GGCM modules, empirical relations that lead to 
modules, solutions to specific science problems, challenges, data sets 
for validation and metrics, or paper 
collections. 
 
The nine active FGs, organized according to research area, are as 
follows... 
 
GGCM Research Area  (Coordinators: Slava Merkin and Frank Tofoletto) 
   - Metrics and Validation FG (ends 2015) 
   - The Ionospheric Source of Dayside Plasma FG (ends 2015) 
   - Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere FG (ends 2017) 
 
MI-Coupling Research Area  (Coordinators: Bill Lotko and Marc Lessard) 
   - Scientific Magnetic Mapping FG (ends 2015)
   - Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection FG (ends 
     2017) 
 
Dayside Research Area  (Coordinators: Karl-Heinz Trattner and 
   Katariina Nykyri) 
   -  The Magnetosheath FG (ends 2014) 
   -  Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bowshock FG (ends 
      2016) 
 
Tail Research Area  (Coordinators: Larry Kepko and TBD) 
   - Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions FG (ends 2016) 
    
Inner Magnetosphere Research Area  (Coordinators: Anthony Chan and 
   Scott Elkington) 
   - Radiation Belts and Wave Modeling Focus Group FG (ends 2014) 

More details about the existing FGs are available on the GEM 
website:http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Focus_Groups 
 
Please keep in mind that on one hand we want to have active FGs 
operating under the umbrella of each Research Area, but there is no 
upper limit to the number within a research area. The GEM SC will 
consider all proposals received before the submission deadline. 
 
The FG proposals will be posted on the GEM Wiki website before the GEM 
Mini-Workshop.  There will be a late-afternoon session at the Mini-
Workshop at which the FG proposals will be presented and discussed in 
a forum open to the entire GEM community.  The SC will then meet after 
the mini-workshop sessions to decide which proposals will be selected 
to become new GEM Focus Groups.  If you are proposing a FG, then 
please plan to give a 5-minute presentation in this session. 
 
Please send FG proposals to the GEM Steering Committee Chair Eric 
Donovan and Chair Elect Mike Wiltberger (edonovan at ucalgary.ca; 
wiltbemj at ucar.edu). Questions should be directed to the SC Chair or 
to the specific Research Area Coordinator for your topic. The list of 
RA coordinators is available 
at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/Organization_and_People.



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