[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 25, Number 47

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 25, Number 47
November 15, 2015

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Table of Contents

1. Mini-GEM 2015 in San Francisco on December 13
2. MEETING: Exploring the Geospace Frontier: New Directions (Quo Vadis), Boulder, Colorado, May 25-27, 2016
3. JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Experimental Space Physics and Spacecraft Engineering at Virginia Tech

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1. Mini-GEM 2015 in San Francisco on December 13
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From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu)

Time: December 13th, 2015 (Sunday before AGU Fall Meeting)

Location:  Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
1500 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA http://goldengatewayhotel.com/ 

Registration:  Free on site sign-in

Schedule: pdf file will be uploaded to http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem-mini/index.html

8:00-12:00	2 sessions
•	GEM-ULTIMA (Peter Chi)
•	Student session

12:00-13:30	6 sessions
•	Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (Weichao TU)
•	Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms (Joint with Mapping) (Toshi Nishimura)
•	OutflowMMM (Dan Welling)
•	Metrics and Validatian (Lutz Rastaetter)
•	H/GSO coordination planning (Marilia Samara/Toshi Nishimura)
•	Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions (Frank Toffoletto)

13:30-13:50	Coffee Break at Lobby foyer-lower (with food)

13:50-15:20	6 sessions
•	Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (Weichao TU)
•	Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms (Toshi Nishimura)	
•	Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances (Chih-Ping Wang)
•	GEM-CEDAR Modeling Challenge: TEC and Auroral Region (Masha Kuznetsova)	
•	Geospace Systems Science (Joe Borovsky)
•	Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures (Hui Zhang)

15:20-15:30	PM Break (no food)

15:30-17:00	5 sessions
•	Reconnection in the Magnetosphere (Paul Cassak)
•	Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy /Population Interactions (Yiqun Yu)
•	*SPEDAS/THEMIS/MMS joint tutorial and GEM planning (Vassilis Angelopoulos)
•	GEM-CEDAR Grand Challenges: Storms and Substorms without boarders (Masha Kuznetsova)
•	Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection (Stanislav Sazykin)

17:00-19:00	New FGs (Michael Wiltberger)

*SPEDAS (THEMIS/MMS/ERG…) tutorials:
This session is to introduce the multi-mission analysis software SPEDAS, provide tutorials on its basic functionality and on MMS data analysis, discuss programmer updates to various mission plug-ins, plan for the upcoming GEM meeting and spill-over to an on-site session for people with their own laptops with IDL, assuming internet connection is available. Updates at: spedas.org/<http://spedas.org/ >  MMS rules of the road at: https://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/mms/MMS+Data+Rights+and+Rules+for+Data+Use ”
- Jim Lewis, Eric Grimes, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Barbara Giles, Tomas Moore”"
If you have any questions, please contact with Zhonghua Xu at ZXU77 at VT.EDU. More details are available at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem-mini/index.html

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2. MEETING: Exploring the Geospace Frontier: New Directions (Quo Vadis), Boulder, Colorado, May 25-27, 2016
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From: David Hysell (david.hysell at cornell.edu)

A workshop is being organized to help shape the direction of research in geospace system science. The workshop will focus on the experimental infrastructure required for discovery research in the 21st century, with consideration for both basic and applied research driven by cutting edge observations of the system.  We will develop strategies that can integrate geospace research across outmoded disciplinary boundaries and better align with activities carried out by different federal and international agencies.

Initiatives to be considered during the workshop will span the Sun-Earth connection. Examples of unique geospace capabilities for the future to be discussed at the workshop would include the construction of a low-frequency, multi-static radar system capable of receiving echoes from the middle atmosphere through the ionosphere, plasmasphere, magnetosphere, and the Sun. This facility would also include advanced, high-power lidar systems as described by the "OASIS - Exploring the Interaction of the Earth's Atmosphere with Space" document. Another research-driving facility could be the COSMO suite of instrumentation to describe the multidimensional magneto-thermal environment of the solar atmosphere at the heart of the space weather enterprise.

The workshop will take place in the context of contemporary community strategic documents and also other major experimental initiatives in geospace including EISCAT_3D and current and planned NASA missions, and natural synergies and overlaps will be considered. We expect the workshop to culminate in an action plan for pursuing an NSF MREFC (Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction) project to enable discovery science across the Geospace community.

The workshop will be sponsored by NSF and HAO/NCAR and is tentatively scheduled to take place in Boulder from May 25--27, 2016. A website for the workshop is available at

https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/events/GeospaceFrontier2016

People interested in participating should contact one of the co-organizers listed below for more information.

David Hysell, Cornell University, david.hysell at cornell.edu
Scott McIntosh, High Altitude Observatory, mscott at uar.edu
Jeff Thayer, University of Colorado at Boulder, jeffrey.thayer at colorado.edu

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3. JOB OPENING: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Experimental Space Physics and Spacecraft Engineering at Virginia Tech
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From: Robert Clauer (rclauer at vt.edu)

The Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering requests applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Experimental Space Physics and Spacecraft Engineering. Areas of particular interest include: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Physics, Space Weather, and Remote Sensing. Expertise in complementary areas such as spacecraft-environmental interactions, power generation and storage, and thermal modeling and control of space systems are highly desirable.
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/positions/attachments/magnetosphere-professor-attach.pdf
https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/59524

Interviews will begin in early December.


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