[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 42

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 42
Sep.27,2017

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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference: Particle Dynamics in the Earth’s Radiation Belts, Cascais, Portugal, 4-9 March 2018 -- Second Announcement

2. MEETING: Fundamental Physical Processes in Solar-Terrestrial Research and Their Relevance to Planetary Physics 2018, 7-13 January 2018, Kona, Hawaii - Abstract and Registration Deadline: September 30, 2017

3. MEETING: Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, 20-24 May 2018

4. Announcement of a Special Collection of manuscripts on the Solar and Geomagnetic Activity of Early September 2017

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1. MEETING: AGU Chapman Conference: Particle Dynamics in the Earth’s Radiation Belts, Cascais, Portugal, 4-9 March 2018 -- Second Announcement
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From: Seth Claudepierre (seth at aero.org)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the AGU Chapman Conference: Particle Dynamics in the Earth’s Radiation Belts, to be held 4-9 March 2018 in Cascais, Portugal at the Quinta da Marinha Resort Hotel.

All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting. For details regarding registration and abstract submission, including hotel information, please explore the meeting website:

http://chapman.agu.org/particle-dynamics/

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submissions Deadline: 11 Oct 2017
Housing Deadline: 29 Nov 2017
Registration Deadline: 29 Nov 2017

Abstracts will be solicited on radiation belt theory, observation, modeling, and experiment, with an emphasis on the five major science themes:

(1) Particle Acceleration and Transport
(2) Particle Loss
(3) Role of Nonlinear Processes
(4) New Radiation Belt Modeling Capabilities and the Quantification of Model Uncertainties
(5) Laboratory Plasma Experiments, as they relate to particle dynamics in the Earth’s radiation belts

Abstract notifications will be sent 1 Nov 2017 and the conference size will be capped at 120 participants, including students. We anticipate that partial student travel support will be available (details will be posted at the conference website when they are finalized).

Sincerely,
The Conference Conveners
Seth Claudepierre, Chris Colpitts, Joe Fennell, Xinlin Li, Jean-Francois Ripoll, Sasha Ukhorskiy 


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2. MEETING: Fundamental Physical Processes in Solar-Terrestrial Research and Their Relevance to Planetary Physics 2018, 7-13 January 2018, Kona, Hawaii - Abstract and Registration Deadline: September 30, 2017
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From: Hui Zhang, Tony Lui, Qiugang Zong (hzhang14 at alaska.edu)

Abstract and Registration Deadline: September 30, 2017

Abstract submission is open at https://goo.gl/forms/OfHxMDn3Eh8ikPCI2

Please register and/or purchase guest tickets at the following link:
https://epay.alaska.edu/C21563_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=7&CATID=209&SINGLESTORE=true

Registration Fee: $450 (includes icebreaker on Sunday, lunches Monday-Friday, conference banquet on Thursday, excursion to Volcano Park)

A conference on Fundamental Physical Processes in Solar-Terrestrial Research and Their Relevance to Planetary Physics will be held from 7 to 13 January 2018 in Kona, Hawaii.  The main theme of this conference is to focus on understanding the variability of space plasma phenomena, encompassing those related to the Sun and all planets within our solar system.

Variability of space plasma environment is the norm rather than the exception. The cause of this variability is still under active research. In the interplanetary medium, plasma parameters change continually, permeated by plasma waves, shocks, turbulence, co-rotating interaction regions, and coronal mass ejections that agitate the environment. Such disturbances in the solar wind can lead to geomagnetic storms, which do not seem to produce relativistic electrons in the radiation belt according to their intensity. The ionosphere has variability that impacts severely radio communications. Its outflows during geomagnetic active periods can modify dramatically the magnetospheric population and physical processes within.

In other planets, plasma sources from their moons play a similar role in influencing magnetospheric environment and processes much like that of the Earth's ionospheric plasma source. Information exchange on magnetospheric research between Earth and other planets can provide valuable insights into universal processes occurring throughout our solar system. Understanding and predicting the variability of space plasma phenomena requires knowledge of not only individual physical processes or magnetospheric phenomena but also the interplay between them in a system-wide approach.

More information on the conference is available at the following link:  http://hawaiiconference2018.gi.alaska.edu

Conveners: Hui Zhang, Tony Lui, Qiugang Zong
Scientific Program Committee: David Sibeck, Guan Le, Philippe Escoubet, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Dong-Hun Lee


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3. MEETING: Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, 20-24 May 2018
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From: David Sibeck (david.g.sibeck at nasa.gov)

The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS) is a joint meeting of the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Solar Physics Division (SPD) of the American Astronomical Society. Following the successful inaugural meeting in Indianapolis in 2015, the next meeting will take place 20-24 May 2018 at the Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Leesburg, VA.  

TESS welcomes participation by the entire Heliophysics community, including all four traditional sub-disciplines devoted to studies of the Sun, Heliosphere, Magnetosphere, and Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere. TESS not only promotes greater interaction and unity within Heliophysics, but also connections to astrophysics and planetary physics.  

The scientific program will include four interdisciplinary plenary sessions of interest across Heliophysics:  Space Weather, Heliophysics Applied to Stellar-Planet Systems, Ion-Neutral Coupling Throughout the Heliophysical System, and Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasmas. There will also be many sessions devoted to other topics, both interdisciplinary and more narrowly focused. Some of these sessions will be led by organizers, in the conventional “AGU style”, while others will be created by the Scientific Organizing Committee after the abstracts have been submitted (SPD style). The SOC invites you to help organize and then join us for the second TESS meeting.

To suggest a session, please contact one of the organizers below by 17 October.

Dana Longcope (dana at solar.physics.montana.edu)
Larry Paxton (larry.paxton at jhuapl.edu)


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4. Announcement of a Special Collection of manuscripts on the Solar and Geomagnetic Activity of Early September 2017
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From: Delores Knipp (dknipp at agu.org)

The editors of Space Weather are organizing a special collection to highlight the strong-to-severe space weather of  4-10 September 2017.  This interval was one of the most flare-productive periods of now-waning solar cycle 24.  Solar active regions (AR) 2673 and 2674  both matured to  complex magnetic configurations as they transited the disk.  AR2673 transformed from a simple sunspot on 2 September to a complex region with order-of-magnitude growth on 4 September,  rapidly reaching beta-gamma-delta  configuration.  In subsequent days the region issued three X-class flares and multiple partial halo ejecta.  Combined, the two active regions produced more than a dozen M-class flares.   As a parting shot AR2673 produced: 1) an X-9 level flare; 2) an associated moderate solar energetic particle event; and 3) a ground level event, as it arrived at the solar west limb on 10 September.   From 4 -16 September the radiation environment at geosynchronous orbit was at minor storm level and 100 MeV protons were episodically present in geostationary orbit during that time frame.  The early arrival of the coronal mass ejection associated with the 6 September X-9 flare produced severe geomagnetic storming on 7 and 8 September.  The full set of events was bracketed by high speed streams that produced their own minor-to-moderate geomagnetic storming.

This interval is covered by, perhaps, the best set of heliospheric and space weather instruments every to witness a significant event. We call for papers that address the heliospheric and geospace disturbances,  and highlight how ground- and space-based instrumentation, combined with improved models allow us to understand the origin, dynamics and consequences of these storms.  We are particularly interested in “effects and impacts” papers, as there have been a number of media reports that HF radio blackouts caused by the X-flares disrupted emergency communications vital to recovery efforts following Hurricane Irma. We also welcome papers that assess the importance of these impacts and any other practical impacts arising from the space weather events in early September 2017.  Additionally, we encourage papers that address the direction, propagation and arrival time of the heliospheric structures (shock, sheath and/or core) that led to periods of forecast and/or observed strong southward Bz.

Anticipated deadline for submission is 1 March 2018

Contact spaceweather at agu.org for submission information or see http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1542-7390/category/Special%20Issues/


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