[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 12

Tue Apr 4 15:44:37 PDT 2017

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 12
Apr.04,2017

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Table of Contents

1. Selection of New GEM Chair-elect

2. AMS Fellows and Awards

3. Deadline Extended: Submission to the MMS Special Collection of JGR

4. SESSION: 3rd COSPAR Symposium Session 3-5 "Radiation Belts Observations using Small Satellites: What Would be the Best Way to Fill Data Gaps?" -- Abstracts Due April 14 (extended deadline) 

5. SHINE 2017 Session “What are the Energy Partition and Dominant Energy Transport Mechanisms Associated with Magnetic Reconnection for Different Heliospheric Plasmas?”: Call for Abstracts

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1. Selection of New GEM Chair-elect
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From: Jacob Bortnik (jbortnik at gmail.com)

The GEM steering committee is pleased to announce the selection of a new GEM chair elect for the period 2017-2019 who will automatically become the next chair, to serve over the period 2019-2021.  There were 5 outstanding nominations for the position, and after a fairly evenly divided vote (which I consider to be a good thing, indicating that all candidates were excellent), the final winner was Prof. Paul Cassak.

Paul is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, at West Virginia University.  His many honors include AGU's James B. Macelwane medal, AGU fellowship, AGU Fred L. Scarf award, NSF faculty early career award, and WVU awards for teaching and research.  In addition to being an accomplished researcher and educator, Paul has consistently attended GEM meetings for about a decade, has chaired GEM sessions and served on the GEM Steering Committee since 2015.  Please do join us in welcoming Paul to his new GEM leadership position.

Jacob Bortnik, on behalf of the GEM steering committee

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2. AMS Fellows and Awards
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From: Michael Wiltberger (wiltbemj at ucar.edu)

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Science and Technology Committee (STAC) on Space Weather would like to draw your attention to the AMS Fellows Program. Nomination to Fellow is open to current Members of the American Meteorological Society. New Fellows are elected each year by the Council at its fall meeting from a slate submitted by the Fellows Committee of not more than two-tenths of 1 percent of all AMS Members. 

This is an excellent opportunity to recognize the contributions of exceptional peers for continued innovation and support of the space weather community. Nomination packages are due May 1, 2017. 

The Fellows criteria states that “Those eligible for election to Fellow shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric (space weather included) or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.” 

The requirements for nomination packages are completion of on-line form (3 pages max.) and a nomination letter limited to one page, along with three one-page letters of support. Of these three letters, one support letter is required from an individual outside the nominee’s home institution. These letters should supplement the information in the sponsor’s original nomination of this individual. 

Please see full awards criteria, helpful guidelines, and submission information at: 
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/fellows/ 

There are also a number of AMS medals that may be of interest, they are also due May 1, 2017: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/awards/

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3. Deadline Extended: Submission to the MMS Special Collection of JGR
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From: Matthew Argall, Daniel Gershman, Shan Wang, Frederick Wilder (matthew.argall at unh.edu)

The submission deadline for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) special collection of JGR has been extended by six week, to June 1st, 2017. The collection will gather together the wide range of discoveries made by MMS throughout its first primary mission phase. Anyone analyzing MMS data is encouraged to submit. Details are below:

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
June 1, 2017

TITLE:
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission results throughout the first primary mission phase

DESCRIPTION:
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission was launched March 15, 2015 with the goal of studying the microphysics of magnetic reconnection. During its second day-side pass, the inter-spacecraft separation was reduced to as little as 7km, or 2-3 electron skin depths at the magnetopause, allowing electron-scale physics to be spatially resolved and investigated. The unprecedented temporal resolution of the fields and particle instrument suites has advanced our understanding of dynamical processes from the bowshock, through the magnetosheath, across the magnetopause and into the inner magnetosphere and magnetotail. This special issue expands upon discoveries made during the first day-side and tail passes, and provides in-depth reports of new findings from the second day-side pass.

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4. SESSION: 3rd COSPAR Symposium Session 3-5 "Radiation Belts Observations using Small Satellites: What Would be the Best Way to Fill Data Gaps?" -- Abstracts Due April 14 (extended deadline) 
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From: Vincent Maget, J. Bernard Blake (vincent.maget at onera.fr)

The 3rd COSPAR Symposium
Small Satellites for Space Research
18-22 September 2017, Jeju, Korea
http://www.cospar2017.org/

We welcome presentations on using small satellites / cubesats for radiation belts observations in the following session. Abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.cospar2017.org/sub0302 by April 14, 2017.

3-5. Radiation Belts Observations using Small Satellites: What Would be the Best Way to Fill Data Gaps?
* Scientific Organizer(s): Vincent Maget (ONERA, France) and J Bernard Blake (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)

Session Summary:
Radiation belts specifications are still an active field of research as well as a big challenge. Indeed, many data gaps still exist, especially in the SLOT region, where the new EOR (Earth Orbit Rising) platforms will encounter drastic environments for a few months. The idea of this session is to discuss on:
    - the new/valuable small detectors opportunities that exist or are being prototyped,
    - in-flight feedback from already flown small missions such as Cubesats and which orbits can be reached as launch opportunities are still the main constraint today,
    - opportunities of "operational" constellations for radiation belt situation awareness (referencing the current ESA SSA framework): how to define a realistic and interesting one?

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5. SHINE 2017 Session “What are the Energy Partition and Dominant Energy Transport Mechanisms Associated with Magnetic Reconnection for Different Heliospheric Plasmas?”: Call for Abstracts
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From: Maria Kazachenko, Benjamin Lynch, Nick Murphy, Lucas Tarr, Silvina Guidoni  (kazachenko at ssl.berkeley.edu)

http://shinecon.org/shine2017/session2017.php#session10

We would like to draw your attention to the session “What are the Energy Partition and Dominant Energy Transport Mechanisms Associated with Magnetic Reconnection for Different Heliospheric Plasmas?” to be held at this year’s SHINE Workshop (shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, July 24-28, 2017). 

This session aims to bring the solar, in situ, and laboratory heliophysics communities together to discuss the energy partition during magnetic reconnection. Questions of particular interest include:

-- How well does the energy partition predicted by current theory and simulations (particle and fluid) compare to observations? What are the observational signatures of various energy transport mechanisms? 

-- How does the energy partition change with time during a reconnection event, as energy is transported outward from the reconnection region?  

-- Are the dominant energy transport mechanisms similar throughout the heliosphere, or do different processes dominate in the coronal, laboratory, or magnetospheric environment?

We welcome poster presentations as well as participation in the discussion (Wednesday morning, July 26). Our invited scene-setting speakers will provide reviews on observations and theory and also guide the open discussion, which is expected (and indeed hoped) to be the central part of the session. Those who wish to make (or refute) a particular point may bring one slide that can be quickly put up on the main projector, if relevant to the ongoing discussion.

Poster presentations will be on display during the whole week. The abstract deadline for poster presentations is June 23rd. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues. 

Conveners: Maria Kazachenko, Benjamin Lynch, Nick Murphy, Lucas Tarr, Silvina Guidoni 

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