[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 2

Tue Jan 10 22:15:42 PST 2017

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 2
Jan.11,2017

Announcement submission website: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/messenger_form/

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Table of Contents

1. Heliophysics Summer School 2017

2. The MMS Special Collection of JGR Is Open to Submissions (2nd Notice)

3. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017: MMS Session

4. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting: P-EM12 "Space Weather, Space Climate, VarSITI" Session

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1. Heliophysics Summer School 2017
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From: Susanne Demaree (vspapply at ucar.edu)

 Heliophysics Summer School 2017
“Long-term solar activity and the climates of space and Earth”
 1 – 8 August, 2017 - Boulder, CO

Deadline is 24 February 2017

Applications are invited for the 2017 Heliophysics Summer School, which will be held in Boulder, Colorado. We are seeking students to join us this coming summer for a unique professional experience. They will learn about the exciting science of heliophysics as a broad, coherent discipline that reaches in space from the Earth’s troposphere to the depths of the Sun, and in time from the formation of the solar system to the distant future.

The 2017 Heliophysics Summer School focuses on the physics of the connections between the Sun, the heliosphere, the magnetospheres and the upper atmospheres of the planets. The solar system offers a wide variety of conditions under which the interaction of bodies with a plasma environment can be studied, while exoplanets and Sun-like stars offer an even wider range of perspectives with lessons about our local cosmos from distant past to distant future.

The 2017 Summer School will begin with an overview of the various components composing the Heliophysical system, and review some of the universal physical processes at work throughout the system. It will then focus on long-term processes, from the Sun’s modulated activity to its influences on the climate systems of the heliosphere, Earth’s atmosphere and planetary environments. The class will draw on material from all four of the Heliophysics textbooks.

The school will be based on lectures, laboratories, and recitations from world experts, and will draw material from the four textbooks Heliophysics I-IV, published by Cambridge University Press.

Approximately 35 students will be selected through a competitive process organized by the UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs. The school lasts for eight days, and each participant receives full travel support for airline tickets, lodging and per diem costs.

Student Application Requirements:

-- Currently enrolled as a graduate student in any phase of training, or first or second year postdoctoral fellow.

-- Major in physics with an emphasis on astrophysics, geophysics, plasma physics, and space physics, or experienced in at least one of these areas.

-- Pursuing a career in heliophysics or astrophysics. 

For additional information and instructions on how to apply, please visit the Heliophysics website at www.Heliophysics.ucar.edu.

For further information, call (303) 497-1605 or e-mail vspapply at ucar.edu.

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2. The MMS Special Collection of JGR Is Open to Submissions (2nd Notice)
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From: Matthew Argall, Dan Gershman, Shan Wang, Rick Wilder (matthew.argall at unh.edu)

The Journal of Geophysical Research is accepting submissions to the Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) special collection. 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 DATES:
Open: Dec. 1, 2016
Close: April 15, 2017

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

DESCRIPTION:
The Magnetosphere 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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3. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017: MMS Session
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From: Seiji Zenitani (seiji.zenitani at nao.ac.jp)

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a session on NASA/MMS mission and associated magnetospheric physics in JpGU-AGU joint meeting 2017 in (Greater) Tokyo. The detail information is attached below.

JpGU-AGU joint meeting 2017 (May 20 - 25)
  http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/
  https://www.m-messe.co.jp/en/newcityguide/hotel/

Important dates
Feb 3rd (FRI)    Early  Abstract  Submission Deadline at 11:59 [JST; UTC+09]
Feb 16th (THU)   Final Abstract   Submission Deadline at 17:00 [JST; UTC+09]

Submission sites
  http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/submission.html (JpGU members)
  http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/for_agu.html (AGU members)

We look forward to seeing you at Makuhari.

Hiroshi, Tom, Benoit, and Seiji

P-EM13: "Exploring space plasma processes with Magnetospheric Multiscale mission"

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has been making formation-flying observations of collision-less plasmas in and around Earth's magnetosphere since launched in March 2015.  With a spacecraft separation as small as 10 km, the four MMS spacecraft now probe sub ion-scale structures in and around the magnetopause and magnetotail current sheets, measuring the plasma and fields at comparably high temporal resolutions for the first time.  After completing its dayside magnetopause seasons in January 2017, MMS will start to unveil electron-scale physics of magnetic reconnection and associated phenomena in the magnetotail.  The purpose of this session is to bring together and discuss the latest results on multiscale processes in and around the magnetosphere, including: magnetic reconnection, wave-particle interaction, turbulence in the magnetosheath and low-latitude boundary layers, Flux Transfer Events, dipolarization fronts in the magnetotail, and kinetic processes at and around the bow shock.  We solicit abstracts investigating these and related topics using observations, theory and modeling, and laboratory experiments, with emphasis on relevance to the interpretation of MMS data.  Results from Geotail, Cluster, THEMIS, VAPs, and other spacecraft observations that have prospects for future MMS observations are welcome.  For a truly multiscale perspective, relevant ground-based observations from all sky imagers, meridian scanning photometers, magnetometer chains, and radars of various types are also solicited.

Invited speakers:
Jim Burch (Southwest Research Institute)
Jan Egedal (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Daniel Graham (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)
Naritoshi Kitamura (JAXA/ISAS)

Conveners:
Hiroshi Hasegawa (JAXA/ISAS)
Thomas Earle Moore (NASA/GSFC)
Benoit Lavraud (IRAP)
Seiji Zenitani (NAOJ)

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4. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting: P-EM12 "Space Weather, Space Climate, VarSITI" Session
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From: Antti Pulkkinen (antti.a.pulkkinen at nasa.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

We invite abstract submissions to our “Space Weather, Space Climate, VarSITI” session at the upcoming joint JpGU-AGU meeting May 20-25, 2017 in Makuhari Messe, Japan (http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/). The abstract submission deadline is February 16th, 2017. To submit your abstract, please go to https://www.member-jpgu.org/jpgu/en/. AGU members need to first obtain their JpGU login, which can be done via http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/for_agu.html.

Detailed session description is attached below and can be viewed also at http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/session_list/detail/P-EM12.html.

Best wishes,

Antti and co-conveners of the session P-EM12

Session ID: P-EM12

Session Description:

"Past, Present, and Future of Solar-Terrestrial Environment" is the keynote of this session. We share the latest scientific papers to understand how the solar-terrestrial environment changes in various time scales, and discuss the necessary international collaboration projects associated with VarSITI. More specifically, welcomed papers include space climate studies using tree rings and ice cores, cutting-edge observational and modeling studies of geospace, heliosphere and the sun, simulation or statistical studies to predict the future space weather and space climate. This session cooperates with Project for Solar-Terrestrial Environment Prediction (PSTEP) supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from MEXT/Japan.

Main Convener:  Ryuho Kataoka (National Institute of Polar Research, Japan). Co-conveners: Antti Pulkkinen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Kanya Kusano (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan), Kazuo Shiokawa (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan).

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