[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 28, Number 4

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 28, Number 4
Feb.08,2018

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

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Table of Contents

1. GEM Summer Workshop 2018 Announcement

2. Call for Students to Give Tutorials at GEM Student Day 2018

3. Space Weather Workshop

4. Call for TESS-2018 Submissions: Comparative Physics and Consequences of Celestial Body Atmospheric Loss

5. 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly: PRBEM

6. Special Webinar on FIELDS Analysis with SPEDAS

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1. GEM Summer Workshop 2018 Announcement
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From: Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu)

GEM Summer Workshop 2018 Announcement

The GEM 2018 Summer Workshop will be held during June 17-23, 2018 at the Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterfront Hotel - Portsmouth, Virginia. Please see more at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact  Zhonghua XU (zxu77 at vt.edu) or Ashley Barker (540-231-2188 , ashley.barker at vt.edu, for questions regarding to logistics).

The following are the important dates:
Open application for student support: Monday, January 22, 2018
Deadline for student applications for support: Friday, March 9, 2018
Last day to make lodging reservations and receive the discounted rate: Thursday, May 24, 2018
Last day to pay the early registration fee: Sunday, May 13, 2018
Deadline for poster submissions: Sunday, May 13, 2018

Student support is open for application now (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/students.html). A high priority will be given to the following groups: graduate students engaged in their thesis or dissertation research, first time attendees and students from small institutions, and students having specific GEM-related duties.

We urge those of you who qualify and are planning to attend the 2018 GEM Workshop to act quickly and send applications to Zhonghua Xu (zxu77 at vt.edu) requesting support that includes the following information:

Name:
Email:
Advisor's name and email:
School:
Graduate or undergraduate student:
Year in school:
Previous GEM support received (list number of years):
Are you signed up to give a student tutorial (yes/no)?
Are you signed up to be a volunteer (taking pictures, recording tutorials, light control during plenary sessions...) (yes/no)?
Tentative title and abstract for your oral/poster presentation
Write a brief statement of purpose (500 words) about why you should come to GEM. The statement should include what your research goals are, how GEM could help in pursuing those goals, and how you can contribute to GEM.

Deadline for student applications and adviser recommendations is Friday, March 09, 2018. Applications or adviser recommendations received after this date will be on the waiting list.

Looking forward to meeting you at the GEM!


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2. Call for Students to Give Tutorials at GEM Student Day 2018
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From: Suzanne Smith, Ryan Dewey (suzanne.e.smith at nasa.gov)

Student Day tutorials. We've begun planning Student Day and are now calling for requests to give the student tutorials. These tutorials are meant to be a general/informative introduction to magnetospheric concepts. Talks will be roughly 15 minutes with a few minutes for questions afterwards. Currently, we have thirteen planned tutorials:

1) Plasma physics basics
2) Magnetic reconnection
3) General inner/outer magnetosphere and heliosphere structure
4) Dayside magnetosphere
5) Magnetotail
6) Inner magnetosphere
7) Ionosphere/thermosphere
8) Geomagnetic storms
9) Substorms
10) Kinetic processes
11) Waves
12) Models
13) Data resources

If you are interested in giving a student tutorial, please send an email application to Suzanne (suzanne.e.smith at nasa.gov) and Ryan (rmdewey at umich.edu). The email subject should include "GEM Student Tutorial" and the email body should include the following information:

(1) Your name
(2) Your institution
(3) Year in graduate school
(4) Number of GEM summer workshops previously attended
(5) Topic(s) you would like, with preference clearly stated. The more topics you are willing and able to give, the more of a chance you will have of giving a tutorial.
(6) Motivation for giving a talk

Applications for tutorials are due March 1st!


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3. Space Weather Workshop
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From: Susanne Demaree (sdemaree at ucar.edu)

Space Weather Workshop

REGISTRATION is now OPEN!

Space Weather Workshop is an annual conference that brings industry, academia, and government agencies together in a lively dialog about space weather. What began in 1996 as a conference for the space weather user community, Space Weather Workshop has evolved into the Nation's leading conference on all issues relating to space weather.

The Meeting of Science, Research, Applications, Operations & Users
April 16-20, 2018

Westin Westminster Hotel
10600 Westminster Blvd
Westminster, CO  80020
(303) 410-5000

Deadlines:
- Student Abstract Submission: Friday, March 2
- Decisions on Student Support will be offered by Friday, March 9
- All other speaker and poster abstract submission: Friday, March 16
- Hotel Room Block: Monday, March 26
- Banquet Registration and payment:  Wednesday, April 11

Space Weather Workshop 2018
cpaess.ucar.edu/events/space-weather-workshop


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4. Call for TESS-2018 Submissions: Comparative Physics and Consequences of Celestial Body Atmospheric Loss
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From: Mike Liemohn, Shannon Curry, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Nicholeen Viall (liemohn at umich.edu)

The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit, TESS-2018, https://connect.agu.org/tess2018/home, is a meeting that brings together the Solar Physics Division of AAS with the Space Physics and Aeronomy section of AGU, to be held 20-24 May 2018 in Leesburg, Virginia. TESS not only promotes greater interaction and unity within Heliophysics but also connections to astrophysics and planetary physics.

We would like to bring to your attention a TESS-2018 special session on "Comparative Physics and Consequences of Celestial Body Atmospheric Loss." We welcome contributions to this session on any related topic to particle outflow from the Earth, planets, moons, comets, or Sun. Studies that are specific to a single celestial body are welcome, as are studies that compare different bodies and address fundamental physical processes or universal outflow phenomena.  

For the GEM community, this is particularly relevant to those participating in the Focus Group, "Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)."  Several other FGs are also highly applicable to this TESS special session. 

The TESS-2018 abstract submission deadline is 20 February 2018.

Session description:
Atmospheres abound throughout the solar system, including the Sun and Earth, the terrestrial planets, the outer planets, several planetary moons, and comets. The loss of these atmospheres includes the escape of both neutral gas as well as ionized particles.  While the neutral-ion proportions and dominant forces can be different, the basic physics and governing equations are similar. Therefore, much can be learned from a discussion of atmospheric loss comparing the physics and escape rates across different celestial bodies. For smaller bodies, the consequences of atmospheric outflow on the celestial object’s magnetosphere (whether that is internally produced or externally induced) can be substantial, driving structure and dynamics throughout the space environment of the celestial object (on a variety of spatial and temporal scale sizes). For the Sun, atmospheric loss creates the supersonic solar wind that creates and fills the heliosphere, affects all of the planetary obstacles within it. This session welcomes presentations across the broad spectrum of solar system objects, including the Sun, planets, moons, and comets, and all possible investigation techniques, including recent or archival observations, numerical approaches ranging from analytical to empirical to coupled first-principles models, theoretical analyses, or relevant lab experiments.


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5. 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly: PRBEM
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From: Adam, Paul, Yuri, and Vincent (akellerman at igpp.ucla.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in our Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modeling (PRBEM), by submitting an abstract to one of our two panel sessions at the upcoming COSPAR meeting. PRBEM.1 is focused on modeling, while PRBEM.2 is focused on observations. Abstracts are due next Friday, February 16. 

COSPAR-18-PRBEM.1: DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICS-BASED, EMPIRICAL, AND DATA ASSIMILATIVE MODELS OF THE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT

Solicited Speakers: Dave Pitchford, Adam Kellerman, Sebastien Boudarie, Michael Balikhin, Kyung-Chan Kim, and Binbin, Ni

COSPAR-18-PRBEM.2: RECENT AND UPCOMING OBSERVATIONS OF THE RADIATION BELTS

Solicited Speakers: Alessandro Bruno, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Allison Jaynes, James McCollough, Seth Claudepierre, Yuri Shprits, Lauren Blum, Ian Mann, Elena Kronberg, Craig Rodger, Robert Ecoffet, Steve Morley

Descriptions:
PRBEM.1: In this session we invite contributions focusing of various aspects of modeling the radiation hazards in the Earth magnetosphere. We will focus on physics based, empirical and data assimilation models of the space environment including modeling of the galactic cosmic rays, electron and  proton radiation belts as well as ring current and surface charging associated with it. We encourage submission of abstracts presenting modeling, comparison of models with new observations as well as combination of models and data by means of data assimilation.

PRBEM.2: The declining phase of the solar cycle is well underway, several CIR storms are driving periodic geomagnetic storms, and recently a CME storm resulted in very large changes in the Earth’s radiation belts. By mid-2018, the Van Allen Probes will have observed the radiation belt region at all MLT sectors multiple times. In combination with several spacecraft, including RESONANCE, THEMIS, MMS, POES, Arase(ERG) and cubesats, balloons, and ground-based observatories, an unprecedented multi-point observatory will be available. A central goal of this panel will be to discuss recent and future observations, missions, and techniques, which may be combined to advance our understanding of local-to-global scale radiation belt dynamics, including processes such as wave-particle interactions, particle transport, and particle loss.
Combining observations from several space-borne and ground-based observatories may come with challenges such as the interpretation of measurements in terms of small-to-large scale processes, or accurate cross-calibration of measurements from different instruments. This panel welcomes papers of recent radiation belt observations, including coupling to the lower energy ring current population, and other spatial regions, such as the ionosphere and plasma sheet. Papers describing instrumentation from current and future observatories, and papers describing techniques for improving, combining, or cross-calibrating measurements, are equally welcome.


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6. Special Webinar on FIELDS Analysis with SPEDAS
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From: Eric Grimes, Jim Lewis, Vassilis Angelopoulos and the SPEDAS team (egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu)

The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS) development team would like to invite you to participate in a Webex presentation we'll be holding on February 14, 2018.

On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific, we'll be hosting a session focusing on using SPEDAS to analyze MMS FIELDS data. For more information on the MMS plug-in in SPEDAS, please see: 
http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=MMS

If there are any particular questions or topics of general interest that you'd like to see covered, please send your suggestions to Eric Grimes, egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu, and we'll try to work them in.

See below for the agenda and Webex connection info.

Special Webinar on FIELDS Analysis with SPEDAS

Time: February 14, 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific
URL: https://uclaigpp.webex.com/uclaigpp
Meeting name = Special Webinar on FIELDS Analysis with SPEDAS
Password = mms-FIELDS-data5
Phone to use: 510-643-3817 
Conference ID/pass = none; first person hears the ring, second starts the telecon

Tentative agenda:

- Introduction to load routines, keywords (FGM, SCM, EDP, EDI)
- Coordinate transformations (cotrans / qcotrans)
- Minimum variance analysis
- Curlometer calculations
- Wave polarization calculations
- Dynamic power spectra
- Poynting flux
- GUI examples (if time permits)


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