2024 GEM Workshop

Date and Location

The 2024 GEM Workshop will be held from from June 23 – 28, 2024 in Fort Collins, CO at the Hilton Fort Collins. The format of the meeting is in-person, however individual focus groups can choose to support a virtual component as well.

Schedule

For the most up to date workshop information, please refer to the GEM Workshop Website and the GEM App.

Please also refer to the GEM Focus Groups, Modeling Methods Methods and Validation Resource Group, and Machine Learning in Geospace pages for more information.

Financial Aid

Student and Early Career Support

Eligibility The following selection criteria are considered when selecting who receives support:
1. Applicants must be enrolled in a university as a graduate student or undergraduate student, or be a postdoc / early career scientist (graduate from PhD in the past 3 years), on the date the financial support application closes.
2. Students receiving financial support must participate during the Student Day activities.
3. Recipients of financial support must present a poster during the main workshop poster sessions.
4. Recipients of financial support are required to attend the workshop for the whole week. If for legitimate reasons, the applicant can only attend part of the workshop, they will have lower priority in getting selected.

Selection Process

1. Student representatives and Student tutorial speakers will be funded.
2. A student applicant’s advisor must submit a letter of acknowledgement.
3. A statement of financial need is optional but encouraged. Financial need: letters from the student’s advisor (or from the postdoc applicant) stating the level of financial need will be considered (e.g., the postdoc has no travel funding; the advisor only has travel funding for one student but has five students who want to attend, etc.)
4. Lottery: Of the remaining funds, students will be selected via a lottery system. 1st time attendees will be weighted heavier in the randomized selection to ensure they are prioritized. There will be a box to check on the application to note if this is the student’s first time attending GEM.


Support

1. Workshop registration fees: Half the fee is covered.
2. Lodging will be covered in double occupancy rooms. Roommates will be assigned by GEM if a preferred roommate is not provided.
3. For students: Domestic Round trip airfare will be covered. Ground traveling expenses will be reimbursed.
4. Traveling cost is not covered for postdoc / early career scientists (PhD + 3 years).
5. International traveling costs are not covered, but international students can apply for support that will cover the shared housing and half of the registration fee.

Family Care Grant

To help GEM members with young children attending the summer workshop, a new Family Care Grant is available for all GEM participants to apply. This grant is intended to help offset the cost of childcare, though recipients will be responsible for arranging their own childcare. We anticipate to award eight grants of up to $400 to each applicant. This might include babysitting costs at the hotel, or contributions towards the daily expenses of a spouse/relative attending the meeting to care for the child.

Please apply here: https://gemworkshop.org/family-care/