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                                                  Volume 23, Number 40
                                                     December 31, 2013
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GEMstone Vol. 23 No. 2 (Special Issue on Focus Group Final Reports)
Is Available Online
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From: Peter Chi <gemeditor at igpp.ucla.edu>

A special issue of the GEMstone newsletter has been published and is 
available online at:

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/GEMstone/GEMstone_Vol23_No2.pdf

This issue contains the final reports from the following concluded 
Focus Groups:

* Dayside Field Aligned Current and Energy
  Deposition (FED) Focus Group (2010-2012): Final Report
  by Delores J. Knipp, Stefan Eriksson and Geoff Crowley

* Near-Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, Fields, and
  Coupling Focus Group (2007-2012): Final Report
  by Sorin Zaharia, Stanislav G. Sazykin, and Benoit Lavraud

* Plasma Entry and Transport (PET) into and within the Magnetotail
  Focus Group (2008-2012): Final Report
  by Simon Wing, Jay R. Johnson, and Antonius Otto

Previous issues of GEMstone Newsletter are available online at:
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/Newsletters


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