[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 25, Number 57

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 25, Number 57
December 17, 2015

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1. International Conference on Substorms 13 (ICS-13) date change
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From: Marc Lessard (marc.lessard at unh.edu)

The International Conference on Substorms 13 (ICS-13) had been planned for September, 2016. After discussions about the value of having the meeting in 2016 versus having the meeting a year later, the SOC has voted to change the date of the meeting to September, 2017. The primary driver for this action is that the MMS tail season will be during the spring/summer 2017 (when apogees are raised to ~25 RE). Advances in substorms based on these observations will make ICS-13 a significantly more effective and exciting meeting. In addition, the Japanese ERG satellite will be launched in in FY2016, making a meeting in 2017 more practical in terms of its contributions to substorms.

Science Organizing Committee:

Elizaveta Antonova, Moscow State University, Russia
Lasse Clausen, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
Eric Donovan, University of Calgary, Canada
Stefan Eriksson, Univ of Colorado, USA
Yasong Ge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Mike Henderson, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
Larry Kepko, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Jim LaBelle, Dartmouth College, USA
Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire, USA
Dag Lorentzen, UNIS, Norway
Steve Milan, University of Leicester, UK
Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Nagoya University, Japan
Kyle Murphy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Rumi Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
Yasunobu Ogawa, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Laurianne Palin, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden
Minna Palmroth, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Evgeny Panov, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
Jimmy Raeder, University of New Hampshire, USA
Andrei Runov, Univ of California Los Angeles, USA


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