[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 28, Number 13

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 28, Number 13
Apr.05,2018

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Table of Contents

1. Bowie Lecture Nominations

2. Space Weather Special Issue "Space Weather Capabilities Assessment: International Forum" -- Call for Papers

3. VarSITI Newsletter Vol.17

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1. Bowie Lecture Nominations
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From: Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu)

Dear Colleagues:

We are looking for suggestions for the AGU Bowie Lectures for Space Physics and Aeronomy. This year we are looking for a nominee from the Magnetospheres (for the Van Allen Lecture) and one from Solar-Heliospheric (for the Parker Lecture) disciplines. The lectureships are described at: https://spa.agu.org/awards/spa-section-awards-honors/

Please send nominations to Larry Paxton (larry.paxton at jhuapl.edu) and Christina Cohen (cohen at srl.caltech.edu). A short paragraph describing why your nominee should be awarded this Lectureship would be very helpful.


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2. Space Weather Special Issue "Space Weather Capabilities Assessment: International Forum" -- Call for Papers
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From: Masha Kuznetsova (maria.m.kuznetsova at nasa.gov)

The AGU Space Weather Journal is announcing a Special Collection “Space Weather Capabilities Assessment: International Forum”. This special issue highlights progress of working teams of the International Forum on Space Weather Capabilities Assessment. The Forum activities have been initiated during the International CCMC - LWS Working Meeting: “Assessing Space Weather Understanding and Applications”, April 3 - 7, 2017, Cape Canaveral, Florida.  The Forum is addressing the need to quantify and to track progress over time in the field of space weather and to establish internationally recognized set of metrics and benchmarks for objective evaluations that are meaningful to end-users of space weather information, model developers, and decision makers. Expected outcomes of Forum activities include developing means to aid in tracking the progress of the LWS program towards its goals. Topics covered by the special collection include: defining metrics for essential space weather quantities; benchmarking the current state of space environment models, applications and forecasting techniques; addressing challenges in data-model comparisons; tracking progress in incorporation of scientific ideas into space weather applications. This special collection will include contributions from the Forum working teams and the community. If you have questions about this special collection please contact the associate editor for the special collection (Dan Welling) or special collection organizers (Masha Kuznetsova, Leila Mays, Yihua Zheng, Ja Soon Shim).  The special collection is now open for submissions.  Submitting authors will find the special selection available upon submitting their manuscript via AGU's GEMS submission website: https://spaceweather-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex. The submission deadline is May 18th, 2018.


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3. VarSITI Newsletter Vol.17
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From: Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

>From Kazuo Shiokawa (shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp)

SCOSTEP's VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact, 2014-2018)

VarSITI Newsletter volume 17 has now been published.  The PDF file is available at 
http://newserver.stil.bas.bg/varsiti/newsL/VarSITI_Newsletter_Vol17.pdf
Below are the contents of this volume.  

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Contents of VarSITI Newsletter Volume 17

Articles
1. Introducing the NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Extension (WACCM-X 2.0)
2. Coordinated investigations of topside H+ ions: new results for inner magnetosphere
3. Complex catalogue of high speed streams and geomagnetic storms during solar cycle 24 (2009?2016)

Highlights on Young Scientists
1. Jian Du/ USA
2. Diana Besli-Ionescu/ Romania
3. Emma Douma/ New Zealand
4. Lauri Holappa/ Finland, USA

Meeting Reports
1. Promoting a new generation of Chinese-American collaboration in space
2. 13-th conference "Plasma Physics in the Solar System"
3. Dynamic Sun II: Solar Magnetism from Interior to the Corona
4. International School on Equatorial and low-latitude ionosphere (ISELION 2018)
5. IAU Symposium 340
6. Particle Dynamics in the Earth's Radiation Belts

Upcoming Meetings
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