Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. JOB OPENING: Director for the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences at the National Science Foundation 2. Call for participation in CEDAR-GEM Joint Modeling Challenge Session at 2013 GEM Mini-Workshop ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 23, Number 35 November 24, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. JOB OPENING: Director for the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences at the National Science Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Walker NSF is conducting a nation-wide search for the Director for the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS). AGS is the nation’s leading source of support for fundamental science in a wide range of disciplines that deal with the earth’s atmosphere and its interactions with the sun. The Division Director leads a staff of around 30 science program and support personnel and oversees an annual budget of nearly $250 million. The candidate must possess excellent scientific leadership, administrative, and managerial skills. To view the specific qualifications required, please see the job announcement link. The AGS Division Director is responsible for strategic planning and operational management for the Division, including oversight of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, observational facilities, cross-directorate activities and core scientific programs. The Division Director has managerial and oversight responsibilities for the effective use of division staff and resources in meeting organizational goals and objectives. The responsibilities of the Division Director also include the coordination of activities with other relevant organizations within NSF, other Federal agencies, professional organizations and international partners. AGS consists of: * The Atmosphere Section including the program areas of Atmospheric Chemistry, Meteorology and Climate. * The Geospace Section including the program areas of Aeronomy, Magnetospheric Physics, Solar Physics and Space Weather. * The NCAR and Facilities Section with oversight of NCAR and NSF- funded Facilities. * AGS also conducts various Educational and Cross-Directorate activities * Further detail about AGS can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=AGS https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/355344400 (The announcement flier is available at: http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/spa/doc/AGS_DD_Search_Flyer_v4.pdf) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Call for participation in CEDAR-GEM Joint Modeling Challenge Session at 2013 GEM Mini-Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Masha Kuznetsova , Barbara Emery We invite modelers, data providers, science and operational users of space weather models to participate in the GEM-CEDAR Modeling Challenge Session, which will be held during 2013 GEM Mini-Workshop on Sunday, December 8th, 2013, 02:00-05:50 pm, in the Franciscan ?? Room of the Westin San Francisco Market Street, 50 Third St. San Francisco. Since the initiation of the CEDAR-GEM Challenge during Joint CEDAR-GEM Workshop in June 2011, the project focuses on various scientific and operational aspects of the performance of magnetosphere and ionosphere models and addresses challenges of model-data comparisons and metrics studies. The details of the Challenge and studies addressed so far can be found at http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/challenges/GEM-CEDAR/index.php. The agenda includes 1) Quantifying storm impacts on the ionosphere/thermosphere 2) Status of community-wide tool for ionosphere drivers 3) Model-data comparison for high inclination and polar orbiting satellites (e.g., ISS, DMSP, and etc.) (1) Quantifying storm impacts on the ionosphere/thermosphere During the CEDAR-GEM Challenge Meetings at the 2013 Space Weather Workshop (April 15, 2013) and 2013 CEDAR Workshop (June 22-28,2013), there was a discussion on “How to quantify storm impact on the ionosphere and thermosphere”, and 8 physical processes (http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/RoR_WWW/presentations/GEM-CEDAR-2013-SWx- meeting/Tim_Fuller-Rowell_Challenge_2013.pdf) for the study were suggested by Tim Fuller-Rowell. We will first focus on three of the eight physical processes. * Process 1: Quantifying the storm energy input - Increase in magnetospheric/ionospheric high latitude convection and auroral precipitation - Enhances in conductivity at high latitudes and NO production - High latitude winds accelerated by ion drag - Joule heating increase - NO cooling IR radiation measured by SABER (? NO and T) - Rate of temperature/density response and recovery * Process 3: Build-up of plasma and structure at mid-latitude - Validate TEC from GPS maps - Validate in-situ Ne, slant TEC, or limb profile Ne from satellites - Validate ground location Ne profiles with ionosondes * Process 6: Onset/timing/evolution of neutral composition change - Response and recovery of O/N2 (e.g., TIMED/GUVI) - Movement of boundaries in O/N2 (e.g., TIMED/GUVI) People are invited to present on the topics. (2) We will discuss preliminary results and future plans of community- wide collaborative development of Driver swapping tool for MI coupling study (3) We will discuss model-data comparisons for high inclination and polar orbiting satellites: * ISS Geomagnetic Storm Studies (e.g., ISS Auroral Charging) * Preparation for a new model/data comparison project ** Ne and Te at ISS locations. The discussion will follow the presentation by Joe Minow about the ISS FPMU and DMSP data. If you are interested in presenting your work, or you have suggestions or comments, please contact one of the people listed below: Ja Soon Shim (jasoon.shim at nasa.gov), Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu), Masha Kuznetsova (Maria.M.Kuznetsova at nasa.gov) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To broadcast announcements to the GEM community, please contact | | Peter Chi, GEM Communications Coordinator, at: | | | | | | Please submit your announcements in plain text or Word document. | | | | To subscribe the GEM Messenger, 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 | | | | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+