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Announcement of GEM Mini-Workshops in San Fransisco, December 4, 1994
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From: Harlan Spence (SPENCE@buasta.bu.edu)

Dear Geospace Environment Modeling Participants and Interested Parties,

     The annual NSF/GEM mini-workshop will be taking place in conjunction 
with the upcoming Fall AGU meeting in San Fransisco.  The meeting will be held 
at the Parc Fifty-Five Hotel on the Sunday afternoon preceding the AGU 
meeting (December 4th).  The Parc Fifty-Five Hotel is approximately midway 
between Union Square and the Moscone Center, somewhat down Market Street 
toward the Civic Auditorium (between Fourth and Fifth).   The Parc Fifty-
Five is one of the hotels available through AGU housing; please consult the 
pertinent EOS issues for location details.  We welcome oldtimers
and newcomers alike who want to learn more about or contribute to the 
NSF GEM program.

      We have a total of three rooms during the afternoon for our meetings;
each room will accomodate about thirty people.   Two of the three active
campaigns are convening (Boundary layer and Magnetotail/Substorm).  Note that
the Global Geospace Convection Model Campaign will NOT be convening a
session at this mini-worskhop.  Also note that only two of the three working
groups of each campaign will meet (WG's 1 and 3 of the Boundary Layer 
Campaign; and WG's 1 amd 2 of the Magnetotail/Substorm Campaign).  The 
following schedule has been arranged for the afternoon of the 4th:

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Time    	Campaign/Working Group (co-chairs)
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    		BOUNDARY LAYER		

1:00-2:50	 WG#1 (Lyons/Maynard)		
	            "Reconnection E-Field and Magnetopause Boundary 
			Normal B-Field"
           	
1:00-2:50 and	 WG#3 (Crooker/Friis-Christensen)	
3:10-5:00	    "Current Systems and Mapping"


		MAGNETOTAIL/SUBSTORM
	
3:10-5:00	 WG#1 (Lyons/Maynard)	
          	    "Substorm Onset Signatures: Identification, Location, 
			and Timing"

3:10-5:00        WG#2 (Onsager/Spence)
          	    "Substorm/Tail Phenomenology: Observations and Models"

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Room locations and further details will be reported as they become available.
The chairs of each of the participating working groups (WGs) will announce
their formats and agenda over the next week or so.  Each room will have 
an overhead projector and screen available; slide projectors/VCRs/etc.
will require a special request to one of the chairs on your part if the need
arises.  Refreshments will be available during the afternoon break (2:50 - 
3:10).   Hope to see you in San Fransisco!