NOTE: The last day of early registration and lodging reservation at the discounted rate for the 2014 GEM Summer Workshop is today, Wednesday 14, 2014. Go to the Workshop website at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html for registration and lodging information. Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. Call for Participation: Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions Focus Group at 2014 GEM Summer Workshop 2. JOB OPENING: Magnetospheric postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 24, Number 12 May 14, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Call for Participation: Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions Focus Group at 2014 GEM Summer Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yiqun Yu , Colby Lemon , Michael Liemohn , and Jichun Zhang We would like to call for research and participation in the new Focus group "Inner magnetosphere cross-energy/population interactions", held at the GEM summer workshop in Portsmouth, VA. There will be three sessions: Session 1 (Thursday, June 19, 1:30-3:00pm): "Influence of plasmasphere/ring current populations on wave excitation and particle distribution, and feedback on these populations." The purpose of this session is to build on what was learnt from the past Focus Group "plasmasphere-magnetosphere interaction" and apply that to couple the plasmasphere with higher-energy population, and therefore continue the discussion on the coupling between the plasmasphere, waves, and ring current. Session 2 (Thursday, June 19, 3:30-5:00pm): "Coupling of ring current plasma with fields." There has been significant modeling effort on improving the self-consistency between the plasma and fields (both electric and magnetic). We would like to move forward and continue to improve the modeling capability by stimulating the development of more comprehensive, full-physics models that could account for self- consistent cross-energy/population coupling processes. Session 3 (Friday, June 20, 10:30-12:15pm): "Improve the full self- consistent link between the wave-particle interactions, particle precipitation, and ionospheric conductivity model." We call for modeling efforts from different regions to couple the necessary physical models, such as an ionospheric conductivity model based on particle precipitation due to inner magnetosphere wave-particle interactions, and the feedback effects on the ring current/radiation belts. This session will also invoke planning discussion for our future direction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. JOB OPENING: Magnetospheric postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Larsen The Intelligence and Space Research division's Space Science and Applications group (ISR-1) at Los Alamos National Laboratory is searching for an excellent postdoctoral researcher to conduct magnetospheric research and cross calibration and validation of the next generation of Los Alamos programmatic space environment monitors against NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue largely self-directed scientific and/or instrumentation endeavors about half time and support the data calibration and validation about half time. The cross calibration effort spans several instruments of different types from low energy electrons and ions (10s of eV) to relativistic electrons and protons (10s of MeV). This position is meant to build the post-doc's and laboratory's expertise in operational space environment and has a possible path to a permanent position with the group's programmatic mission. If you are interested please send me (Brian Larsen) a CV and a cover letter addressing these preferred qualifications. - PhD in space physics or related field within the last 5 years. - Experience in magnetospheric satellite data analysis (preferably radiation belt) - Hardware and/or hardware modeling experience. - Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance (normally requires US citizenship). You are encouraged to look at the Los Alamos Post Doc program website: http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/index.php +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: | | http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/messenger/ | | | | URL of GEM Home Page: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki | | Workshop Information: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+