[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 62

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 62
Dec.26,2017

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Table of Contents

1. Message From the Chair: Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year!

2. GRL Special Section: Initial Results of the ERG (Arase) Project and Multi-point Observations

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1. Message From the Chair: Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year!
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From: Jacob Bortnik (jbortnik at gmail.com)

Dear GEM colleagues,

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a joyful and festive holiday season, and a wonderful new year ahead!  

Looking back on the past year, there is much to be thankful for. We’ve had another successful GEM summer workshop in Portsmouth, VA (18-23 June 2017) which was attended by 156 scientists and 73 students, representing 12 countries and approximately 66 different institutions.  As we heard at the recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, decisive steps have been taken to implement some of the recommendations of the recent Decadal Survey, leading to many new opportunities and much excitement in the field of magnetospheric and heliophysics.  And possibly closest to my heart: we ran a poll asking GEM members what they valued most about GEM, and learned that overwhelmingly, it was the workshop style and the informal nature of the vibrant, engaged GEM community which made GEM unique among scientific communities and the GEM summer workshop the crown-jewel (or crown-GEM?) of the meeting calendar.  We will be taking into account many of the excellent ideas and suggestions that you put forth as we plan the next GEM summer workshop in Sante Fe, NM (16-22 June 2018), which will be held back-to-back with the CEDAR workshop (24-28 June 2018) with a CEDAR-GEM joint day scheduled for Saturday 23 June 2018.

Looking ahead, a number of open slots will become available on the GEM Steering Committee in 2018 as some of our members rotate off, so consider volunteering to serve, propose a new GEM Focus Group, or get involved in some way.  As the number of opportunities in our field expands, as our models become more refined, and the data from our Heliophysics System Observatory continues to grow, I encourage you to make 2018 the year to try bold new ideas, to “think big thinks”, and to communicate the excitement and relevance of our science to the broader public.

Best wishes for the New Year ahead, and we look forward to seeing you at the GEM summer workshop in Santa Fe.

Jacob Bortnik


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2. GRL Special Section: Initial Results of the ERG (Arase) Project and Multi-point Observations
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From: Yoshi Miyoshi, Iku Shinohara, Kazuo Shiokawa and Shiang-Yu Wang (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

Dear Colleagues

We are very pleased to announce that the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) will be soon accepting paper submissions to the Special Section for Initial results of the ERG(Arase) project and multi-point observations.

Submission window: January 1 – May  31, 2018.

Special section description:
The Arase (ERG) mission has been exploring the Earth’s inner magnetosphere, in particularly, the Van Allen radiation belts with six sets of onboard particle analyzers and two sets of onboard electromagnetic field measurements since its launch on December 20, 2016. The major purpose of the Arase mission is to study acceleration, transport, and loss processes of radiation belt particles and dynamics of the inner magnetosphere. One major characteristic of the Arase’s observation strategy is that various kinds of ground-based coordinated observations has been carefully prepared. Coordinated multi-point observations with satellites in space and ground-based observatories must contribute comprehensive understandings of physical mechanism of dynamically variation geospace environment. Indeed, Arase and its coordinated measurements in geospace has successfully observed several severe geospace storm events. This special issue expands upon new findings from these observations of Arase and ground-based networks as well as interplay among different missions. Results from related observations and modeling/simulation studies on the inner magnetosphere are also welcome.

Please use AGU GEMS system (https://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex) to submit your manuscript.

We look forward to many articles for this special section.

Special section coordinators:
Yoshi Miyoshi (ISEE, Nagoya University, miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Iku Shiokawa (ISAS/JAXA, iku at stp.isas.jaxa.jp)
Kazuo Shiokawa (ISEE, Nagoya University, shiokawa at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Shiang-Yu Wang (ASIAA, swwang at asiaa.sinica.edu.tw)


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