[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 14

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 14
May.08,2017

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

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Table of Contents

1. GEM Summer Workshop 2017 Announcement: Early Registration by Next Week!

2. Invitation to a New GEM focus Group “3D ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere coupled system”

3. Workshop on "Active Experiments in Space: Past, Present and Future" – Registration and abstract submission are open

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1. GEM Summer Workshop 2017 Announcement: Early Registration by Next Week!
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From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu)

The GEM 2017 Summer Workshop will be held during June 18-23, 2017 at the Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterfront Hotel - Portsmouth, Virginia. Please see more at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html

The early registration is due next week on May 13, 2017. The poster deadline is on May 14, 2017. The hotel reservation deadline is on May 17, 2017. The session schedule (36 individual sessions from Monday to Thursday) and Sunday student session schedule have been updated to the website.

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact with Zhonghua Xu at (ZXU77 at VT.EDU) or Ashley Barker at (frost at vt.edu ).


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2. Invitation to a New GEM focus Group “3D ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere coupled system”
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From: Hyunju Connor, Binzheng Zhang (hyunju.k.connor at nasa.gov)

Dear Colleagues,

We’d like to advertise a new GEM focus group titled “3D ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere – ionosphere – thermosphere coupled system”. Our two 1.5hr sessions are currently scheduled in the Monday afternoon (Jun 19). We encourage scientists in related fields to participate our sessions. If you are interested in giving a talk, please send your talk title to Binzheng Zhang (binzheng at ucar.edu) or Hyunju Connor (hyunju.k.connor at nasa.gov).  Here is our brief session description:

Although strong coupling of the magnetosphere – ionosphere – thermosphere (MIT) system is widely recognized by the space science community, studying this coupling dynamics as a whole global system has yet to be conducted comprehensively. This GEM focus group addresses current understandings and challenges in the MIT coupling dynamics with emphasis on the magnetospheric energy/momentum input and the high-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics. Field-aligned currents, auroral precipitation, Poynting flux, and magnetospheric waves can have significant impacts on the MIT coupling, especially during strong geomagnetic activities. Studying their spatiotemporal dynamics, energy/momentum deposition patterns, and direct impacts on the high-latitude ionosphere (ionospheric upflows, electric fields, conductances, Joule heating, etc) is a key first step to improve our understanding of the MIT coupling dynamics. This focus group invites observations, simulations, theory, or any combination of the three on these topics. 

For more information, please visit the following website:
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System


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3. Workshop on "Active Experiments in Space: Past, Present and Future" – Registration and abstract submission are open
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From: Gian Luca Delzanno, Joe Borovsky (delzanno at lanl.gov)

Active Experiments in Space: Past, Present and Future
Sep 11th -14th 2017, Santa Fe (NM)
http://www.cvent.com/events/active-experiments-in-space-past-present-and-future/event-summary-73675ac6ba5745d48d181933c4783454.aspx

The registration and abstract submission for the workshop are open. These are the important deadlines:

Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 1, 2017
Deadline for Invited Abstracts: June 1, 2017
Deadline for Contributed Abstracts: July 15, 2017
Hotel Reservation Deadline: August 11, 2017


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