[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 26, Number 29

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 26, Number 29
Jul.28,2016

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Table of Contents

1. AGU Fall Meeting Session A103: The rise of small satellite constellations for Earth observation

2. AGU Fall Meeting Session SH019: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, and Missing Information

3. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM013: Interactions Across the Spectrum of Inner Magnetosphere Plasma

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1. AGU Fall Meeting Session A103: The rise of small satellite constellations for Earth observation
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From: David Klumpar (klumpar at montana.edu)

Colleagues,

Session A103 will include presentations relevant to SPA (SA, SM, SH) and geospace sciences in general.  Invited Speakers are:

-- William Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
-- Harlan Spence, UNH, Durham, NH

Consider submitting an abstract prior to the August 3, 2016 submission deadline  
A103. The rise of small satellite constellations for Earth observation

Session ID#: 13542

Session Description:

Earth and geospace observation from space-based constellations holds the promise of simultaneous global coverage at high temporal resolution.  The maturation of small satellite and constellation technologies is providing new opportunities for making the next great leap in science and applications, using multi-point observatories.   This session explores Earth and space science problems that are or could be addressed using small satellite constellations or swarms and the underlying observation approaches that make new solutions possible.  We invite contributions presenting current or planned missions, mission concepts, studies that define measurement requirements, and new and developing technologies that specifically enable constellations.

Primary Convener:  William Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration, Laurel, MD, United States

Conveners:  
Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States

Co-Organized with:
Atmospheric Sciences
Earth and Space Science Informatics
SPA-Aeronomy
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
GC - Global Environmental Change
IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
SA - SPA-Aeronomy
SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
SA - SPA-Aeronomy
SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics


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2. AGU Fall Meeting Session SH019: Space Weather Forecasting: Science, Operations, and Missing Information
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From: Antti Pulkkinen (antti.a.pulkkinen at nasa.gov)

Dear All.

We ask for contributed abstracts to our co-convened SH (Solar and Heliospheric Physics) and SM (Magnetospheric Physics) space-weather science, forecasting, operations, and missing information session at the upcoming Fall AGU in San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/).  The abstract-submission deadline is fast coming upon us on 03 August 2016 at 11:59 P.M. EDT / 04 August 2016 at 03:59UT.

Full session details are below including related sessions which we are attempting to coordinate with for consecutive session running at the meeting.  To submit your abstract, the first author must be the submitting author and must be an AGU member (before 24 July 2016).  First authors are allowed to submit one contributed abstract, or one contributed abstract and one invited abstract, or two invited abstracts to the science sessions.  An additional abstract can be submitted to Union and Public Affairs sessions.

To submit your abstract, please go here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/sh/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=12359.

Please note that this session is being organized as one of the new alternate-format sessions and the details will be given in the next announcement; please see: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/alternate-session-formats/ for further AGU details on the alternate format sessions.  Preliminary panellist members include Mark Gibbs (Met Office, UK), Juha-Pekka (Jussi) Luntama (ESA SSA, Germany), Kanya Kusano (Nagoya University, Japan/PSTEP), and Clezio Marcos De Nardin (National Institute for Space Research, Brasil/ISES), and we are in the preparations of confirming one panellist from NOAA SWPC (USA) and also one from NASA Heliophysics (USA).

Best wishes,

Mario (on behalf of all the SH019 Conveners).

Session ID#: 12359

Session Description:
Society is ever-more reliant on reliable energy supplies and the technologies which they enable/run.  These are susceptible to both extreme and everyday space weather (SW); the latter in the current solar cycle has proven to be more-surprisingly influenced by solar-wind structures and not just CME events.  Such susceptibilities include power grids, aviation/maritime, communications, GNSS positioning/timing, etc...

Following the highly-successful session at Fall-AGU-2015, this session is intended to follow-up and expand/continue the assessment of the state-of-the-art global SW forecasting capabilities and establish where additional-services/improvements are necessary to advance our SW forecast/prediction capabilities.

The session solicits contributions of: the provision of suitable observations/measurements; the developments of scientific models into operational use; and ongoing developments of SW forecasting.  Contributions emphasizing science from SW operational missions (e.g. GOES/DSCOVR/NOAA-2020/Carrington) including those highlighting data/model gaps and that identify steps needed to further improve or keep existing SW forecasting services viable, are also very-much welcomed.

Primary Convener:  Mario Mark Bisi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Antti A Pulkkinen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Americo Gonzalez-Esparza, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico

Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH), and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics (SM)

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
P - Planetary Sciences
SA - SPA-Aeronomy
SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:
4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]

Related National Space Weather Action Plan (NSWAP)-focused sessions include:
SM004: Assessing the National Space Weather Action Plan: Implications for Space Weather Research
PA012: Defining Extreme Space Weather Events
PA037: The National Space Weather Action Plan: Five Benchmarks for Extreme Space Weather Events


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3. AGU Fall Meeting Session SM013: Interactions Across the Spectrum of Inner Magnetosphere Plasma
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From: Colby Lemon (colby at aero.org)

Dear fellow scientists,
    We would like to make you aware of and invite you to participate in AGU session SM013:

Interactions Across the Spectrum of Inner Magnetosphere Plasma
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13653

Session Description:
Plasma from eV to MeV energies coexists in the inner magnetosphere and mutually interacts via the global electric and magnetic fields and wave environment. At the lowest energies, the plasmasphere is the upward extension of the ionosphere; it carries most of the plasma mass, and its dynamics substantially impacts plasma wave growth and propagation. The medium energy plasma carries the bulk of plasma energy and ring current, distorts the magnetic and electric fields, and is the driver and central mediator of inner magnetosphere coupling across the spectrum. At the highest energies, radiation belt sources, acceleration, transport, and loss are driven by the low and medium energy plasma, and the waves they generate. We invite presentations, including theory, simulations, and observations from recent missions such as Van Allen Probes, MMS, THEMIS, GOES, TWINS, and Cluster, that investigate interactions and feedback between these different plasma populations and their coupling with electromagnetic fields.

Thank you!
Colby Lemon (The Aerospace Corporation)
Yiqun Yu (Beihang University)
Mike Liemohn (University of Michigan)
Jichun Zhang (University of New Hampshire)


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