Table of Contents ====================================================================== 1. 2014 Mini-GEM: Tail Inner-magnetosphere interactions (TIMI) Focus Group Session 2. 2014 Mini-GEM: Geospace System Science Focus Group Session 3. 2014 Mini-GEM: Mini-GEM: Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/ Population Interactions (IMCEPI) Focus Group Session 4. 2014 Mini-GEM: Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures Focus Group Session ====================================================================== *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 24, Number 41 December 9, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 2014 Mini-GEM: Tail Inner-magnetosphere interactions (TIMI) Focus Group Session ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vassilis Angelopoulos , Pontus Brandt , John Lyon , and Frank Toffoletto The GEM Tail inner magnetosphere interactions focus group will have a planning meeting at the 2014 GEM mini-workshop on Sunday, December 14, from 2:20-4:10. Participants are invited to make a short presentation and to contribute to the discussion and planning for the upcoming summer workshop. Please let us know us if you would like to make a short presentation. We look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco. FG information: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_Tail-Inner_Magnetosphere_Interactions Location: Westin San Francisco Market Street, 50 Third St. San Francisco (Third Floor meeting rooms) –Commonwealth Room ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 2014 Mini-GEM: Geospace System Science Focus Group Session ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Borovksy , Bill Lotko , Vadim Uritsky , and Juan Valdivia We invite all interested parties to join the Geospace System Science (GSS) discussion at the GEM Mini-Workshop. When: Sunday, Dec 14, 12:00-1:50 PM Where: Commonwealth Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street, 50 Third St. How: Make a case for promising candidate(s) for future studies by the GSS focus group with 1-2 key slides This session follows the GSS sessions held last summer, which focused on i) timescales, time lags and feedback loops in the M-I system, ii) long-running measurements of the geospace system and iii) initial planning for GSS focus group studies. Community input at this session will help crystalize the focus group’s future direction and activities in three areas: 1) New analysis techniques that have the potential to quantify the physics of observed timescales, time lags and feedback loops in the M- I system; 2) Event studies with comprehensive data sets that exist or can be assembled with the objective to determine the linkages and interactions that define geospace system behavior; and 3) System modeling studies that may either motivate event studies or provide essential physical insights into complex system behavior derived from event studies. To make this call a little more concrete, we mention three of the many possible candidates for GSS event studies that emerged at last summer’s workshop: - Solar wind-magnetosheath-magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions that manifest fast flow channels in polar cap, leading poleward boundary intensifications and magnetotail activity; - Control of the dayside reconnection rate and CPCP saturation; and - Multimode states of magnetospheric convection including SMCs, substorms, and quasi-periodic activations. Come to this session and help make the case for the GSS phenomena you think deserve attention by the GSS focus group. Walk-ons are welcome and will be accommodated as time permits, but talking points will be allocated first to people who contact one of the focus group co-chairs before Sunday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 2014 Mini-GEM: Mini-GEM: Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/ Population Interactions (IMCEPI) Focus Group Session ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yiqun Yu , Jichun Zhang , Colby Lemon , and Mike Liemohn We would like to call for participation in the mini-GEM session “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions (IMCEPI)” to be held on Sunday before the upcoming AGU meeting. (This is also directly relevant to the AGU session “Cross-Energy Interactions in the Inner Magnetosphere” on Monday and Thursday.) Time and location: Sunday Dec. 14, 12:00 - 1:50pm, Franciscan II Room, The Westin Market Street Hotel, 50 Third Street, San Francisco. We will focus on the following topics: (1) wave-particle interactions in the inner magnetosphere that provide important feedback on the dynamics of ring current and radiation belts, (2) self-consistent plasma and field coupling in the near-Earth region that regulates plasma transport and the development of ring current, and (3) the coupling between the inner magnetosphere and ionosphere as a whole system by linking processes like wave-particle interactions, particle precipitation, conductivity variations, and global convections. The goal of our session is to bring together researchers in different inner magnetosphere/ionosphere regimes to collaborate to improve our understanding of the complicated interactions/circulations in the inner magnetosphere system. We encourage the GEM community to participate by presenting short talks in a workshop style. We will also plan challenge events for upcoming years in order to bridge scientists from different research regimes and test and improve our models. Please join our session and share your thoughts. Let us know if you are interested in presenting. We look forward to seeing you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 2014 Mini-GEM: Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures Focus Group Session ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hui Zhang The "Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures" focus group will be having a meeting at the 2014 GEM mini-workshop on Sunday, December 14, from 2:20-4:10pm in the City Room at the Westin San Francisco, Market Street, 50 Third St. If you wish to make a presentation, please send the title of your presentation to Hui Zhang (hzhang@gi.alaska.edu) by Friday, Dec 12th. Looking forward to seeing you at San Francisco! 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) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+