[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 26, Number 31

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 26, Number 31
Aug.12,2016

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Table of Contents

1. SPEDAS and MMS Plug-ins Webinars: August 24 and August 31, 2016

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1. SPEDAS and MMS Plug-ins Webinars: August 24 and August 31, 2016
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From: Vassilis Angelopoulos (vassilis at ucla.edu)

Dear Space Physics community:

The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS) development team would like to invite you to participate in two Webex presentations we'll be holding later this month.

On Wednesday August 24, at 10am Pacific time, we'll be hosting a tutorial, live demo, and Q & A session on the SPEDAS software package and its capabilities. For more information on SPEDAS please look at: http://spedas.org  and http://spedas.org/wiki

On Wednesday August 31 at 10am Pacific, we'll be hosting another session focusing on using SPEDAS to analyze MMS data. This MMS session will assume some familiarity with SPEDAS, so those who haven't used SPEDAS before might want to consider participating in both sessions. For more information on that software please see: http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=MMS

If there are any particular questions or topics of general interest that you'd like to see covered in either session, please send your suggestions to Jim Lewis, jwl at ssl.berkeley.edu, and we'll try to work them in.

See below for agendas and Webex connection info.

Jim Lewis, Eric Grimes, Vassilis Angelopoulos and the SPEDAS team

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SPEDAS Session:  SPEDAS general tutorial and live demo

Webex details:
URL: https://uclaigpp.webex.com/uclaigpp

Time: August 24 @10AM Pacific Daylight Time (scheduled for 2hrs) Meeting name = SPEDAS webinar Password = goSP3D at S Phone to use: 1-888-921-8686 Conference ID/pass = 3107947090 and press # International callers dial: 001-678-259-1049

Tentative agenda:
* SPEDAS overview and general concepts:  Missions supported, local and remote data repositories, load routines, data analysis and manipulation routines, tplot variables, plotting data, GUI capabilities
* Simple examples of using the command line to load data.
* Examples of how to access or modify the underlying data and metadata for tplot variables
* Plotting data with tplot (both line plots and spectrograms); changing tplot options
* Command line data manipulation routines: coordinate transformations, support data, data manipulation, use of the 'calc' routine to operate directly on tplot variables, crib sheets
* How to start the SPEDAS GUI;  how to import and plot existing tplot variables
* Loading data via the SPEDAS GUI: missions with SPEDAS plugins can be loaded via "Load Data" panel, other missions available via generic "Load Data from CDAWeb" panel.
* Plotting in the SPEDAS GUI;  how to change GUI plot options
* Data processing and analysis in the GUI: Data Analysis panel, summary plots, ISEE 3D tool, 'Calculate' panel
* Exporting GUI plots to postscript files for further editing or inclusion in papers.

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MMS Plug-ins Session:  Processing MMS data with SPEDAS

Time: August 31, 10am-12pm Pacific Daylight Time
URL: https://uclaigpp.webex.com/uclaigpp
Meeting name = MMS Plug-ins webinar
Password = R3c0nnect!
Phone to use: 1-888-921-8686
Conference ID/pass = 3107947090 and press # International callers dial: 001-678-259-1049

Tentative agenda:
1) Introduction to FPI, HPCA load routines, standard keywords
2) Loading and Plotting the Particle Data
3) Spectra from the Particle Distributions
4) Particle Slices (2D/3D slices)
5) Questions


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