[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 25, Number 49

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 25, Number 49
November 30, 2015

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Table of Contents

1. Call for Proposals for New GEM Focus Groups - Deadline Dec 4!

2. GEMstone Volume 25 Number 1 Available Online

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1. Call for Proposals for New GEM Focus Groups - Deadline Dec 4!
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From: The GEM Steering Committee 

The GEM Steering Committee (SC) is now accepting proposals for new Focus Groups (FGs). This call is open until December 1st. Please follow the proposal guidelines in the GEM by-laws: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Bylaws 

The proposals should be 2 pages in length, organized under the following headings, and in the following order: 

1) Topic (a description of the topic) 
2) Timeliness (a statement on timeliness of the proposed FG) 
3) Fit (how does the FG would relate to existing FGs... e.g., compliment?, duplicate?) 
4) Goal& Deliverable (specific goal and target deliverable*) 
5) Co-chairs (names of the proposed co-chairs) 
6) Research Area (the Research Area with which it will be associated) 
7) Term (5 years or less from summer 2014) 
8) Expected activities (for example topics of sessions or challenges) 

*Deliverables can be GGCM modules, empirical relations that lead to modules, solutions to specific science problems, challenges, data sets for validation and metrics, or paper collections. 

The nine active FGs, organized according to research area, are as follows... 

SWMI -Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Interaction Research Area
 (Coordinators:  Katariina Nykyri and Steve Petrinec) 
- Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bowshock FG (ends 2016)
- Tail Environment and dynamics at lunar distances (ends 2019)

MPS - Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet Research Area
 (Coordinators: Andrei Runov and Matina Gkioulidou)
- Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions FG (ends 2016)
- Testing Proposed links between mesoscale auroral and polar cap dynamics (ends 2019)

IMAG - Inner Magnetosphere Research Area
(Coordinators: Scott Elkington and Seth Claudepierre)
- Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions (ends 2018)
- Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (ends 2018)

MIC - Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling Research Area 
(Coordinators: Marc Lessard and Shin Ohtani)
- Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection FG (ends 2017)

GSM - Global System Modeling Research Area
 (Coordinators: Frank Tofoletto and Alex Glocer)
- Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere FG (ends 2017)
- Geospace System Science FG (ends 2018)

More details about the existing FGs are available on the GEM website:http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/GEM_Focus_Groups 

Please keep in mind that on one hand we want to have active FGs operating under the umbrella of each Research Area, but there is no upper limit to the number within a research area. The GEM SC will consider all proposals received before the submission deadline. 

The FG proposals will be posted on the GEM Wiki website before the GEM Mini-Workshop. There will be a late-afternoon session at the Mini- Workshop at which the FG proposals will be presented and discussed in a forum open to the entire GEM community. The SC will then meet after the mini-workshop sessions to decide which proposals will be selected to become new GEM Focus Groups. If you are proposing a FG, then please plan to give a 5-minute presentation in this session. 

Please send FG proposals to the GEM Steering Committee Chair Mike Wiltberger and Chair Elect Jacob Bortnik (wiltbemj at ucar.edu ; jbortnik at atmos.ucla.edu). Questions should be directed to the SC Chair or to the specific Research Area Coordinator for your topic. The list of RA coordinators is available at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/Organization_and_People.


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2. GEMstone Volume 25 Number 1 Available Online
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From: Peter Chi <gemeditor at igpp.ucla.edu>

The 25th GEMstone Newsletter is available online at:

http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/GEMstone/GEMstone_Vol25_No1.pdf

The content includes:
- Notes from NSF Program Director
- Notes from GEM Chair
- Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction RA Report
Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures FG
	Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances FG
- Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet RA Report
Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions FG
Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms FG
- Inner Magnetosphere RA Report
Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions FG
Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling FG
- Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling RA Report
Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma FG
Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere FG
- Global System Modeling RA Report
Metrics and Validation FG
Magnetic Reconnection FG
Geospace System Science FG
- Workshop Coordinator Report
- Student Representative Report
- GEM Steering Committee
- List of GEM Focus Groups

Past issues of the GEMstone Newsletter, including special issues for Focus Group Final Reports (such as those made by the Magnetosheath Focus Group and the Radiation Belts and Waves Focus Group in the past year) can be found online at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/Newsletters. 


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