[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 59

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 59
Dec.06,2017

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Table of Contents

1. LWS Town Hall Meeting

2. AGU Fall 2017 Session: Assessment of Space Environment Models and Data: Validation Metrics, Frameworks, and Applications - Panel Format (SM002)

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1. LWS Town Hall Meeting
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From: Jeff Morrill, Janet Kozyra, Mark Linton, Eftyhia Zesta) (jeff.s.morrill at nasa.gov)

We will hold the Town Hall meeting for the Heliophysics Living With a Star (LWS)  program at the Fall AGU meeting, December 13, 2017, 6:30 PM – 8:45PM, Esplanade Ballroom-1, Le Meridien New Orleans, 333 Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130-3215. You are invited to attend and hear brief summaries on the program status and ongoing group efforts, and to participate in open discussion of the LWS program.  A draft agenda is below.

LWS Town Hall Draft Agenda – Fall AGU 2017
Topic
Welcome
LWS Status
GDC Status
LWS Activities
LWS Coordination
Why LPAG?
Future LPAG Activities
FST Reports
Open Discussion


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2. AGU Fall 2017 Session: Assessment of Space Environment Models and Data: Validation Metrics, Frameworks, and Applications - Panel Format (SM002)
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From: Adam Kellerman, Alexa Halford, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Jeff Klenzing (akellerman at igpp.ucla.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to attend our panel session titled “Assessment of Space Environment Models and Data: Validation Metrics, Frameworks, and Applications”. The session will occur bright and early on Monday morning, December 11 at 08:00 - 10:00, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 243-244, New Orleans. 

We will have 8 panelists, representing atmospheric, ionospheric, magnetospheric, and solar research and applications. A 40-minute discussion section will follow the talks, in which the audience may engage with the panelists and each other. We are excited to have 8 great presentations from our panelists, and are looking forward to a lively discussion following the talks. The discussion will be devoted to bringing our research communities together, with an emphasis on identifying cross-disciplinary tools, methods, and approaches to aid in efficient and effective research progress, both towards research goals and applications. We hope to identify efficient and effective methods and approaches utilized across different research and application areas that may benefit both researchers and society, which will hopefully set the tone for collaborative efforts both for the remainder of the meeting, and ongoing into the future. 

The panelists, their affiliations, and their abstract titles are as follows:

Brett A. Carter - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia
SM11E-01: “Predicting ionospheric scintillation: Recent advancements and future challenges”

Robert A. Steenburgh - National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA
SM11E-02: “A Practitioners Perspective on Verification”

Antti A. Pulkkinen - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
SM11E-03: “Lessons learned from recent geomagnetic disturbance model validation activities”

Barbara J. Thompson - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
SM11E-04: “Assessing and Adapting Scientific Results for Space Weather Research to Operations (R2O)”

Timothy Guild - The Aerospace Corporation, USA
SM11E-05: “Space weather tools for satellite anomaly analysis: an example and future needs”

Suzy Bingham - The Met Office, UK
SM11E-06: Verification of space weather forecasts at the UK Met Office

Michele D. Cash - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, USA
SM11E-07: “Space Weather Forecasting at NOAA with Michigan’s Geospace Model: Results from the First Year in Real-Time Operations”

Yaireska M. Collado-Vega, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
SM11E-08: “Magnetopause Standoff Position Changes and Geosynchronous Orbit Crossings: Models and Observations”

Session Description:
The assessment of both scientific understanding and its application to societal needs can drive progress through providing direction, and constructive feedback into the research efforts of a field. The tools needed to assess and track this progress include metrics, validation techniques, and framework designs. Advances in computation and instrumentation, and the resulting large data sets, provide new potential for system-wide assessment. However, they also provide a challenge for the relevant frameworks. Many of the needed tools can be cross-disciplinary in their applicability, and the space physics research community can learn from, and share with the Earth and atmospheric science communities, who likewise share the goals of both scientific understanding, and applications beneficial to society. The goal of this session is to bring these research communities together to discuss current efforts, successful approaches, and lessons learned in building and applying tools for validation, metrics, and applications to societal needs.


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