[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 29, Number 27

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 29, Number 27
Aug.02,2019

Announcement submission website:
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Table of Contents

1. Last Chance - At-Large Steering Committee member Deadline Friday, Aug. 2!

2. New GEM "Chair's Chat" Blog!

3. Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities: Request for Community Input

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1. Last Chance - At-Large Steering Committee member Deadline Friday, Aug. 2!
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From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

This is the final reminder for the deadline of Friday, August 2, to apply for the open Steering Committee position!!!  Details from the original email follow.  Thanks!

The appointment of Vania as Vice-Chair means that there is one new opening for an At-Large member on the SC.  To enhance transparency, the SC voted to (re-)open a community-wide search to fill this position.  The duties of the various SC positions are summarized in the GEM “best practices” document, which can be found at 
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM_BestPractices_22Sep2017.pdf.

Please send a succinct one-page CV and a separate brief statement of interest (no more than half a page) describing your interest in the position, any relevant experience, and your approach to serving the GEM community and maintaining an interactive and workshop-style meeting.  Applications and nominations will be accepted until Friday, August 2.  To submit an application, please send the requested documents to Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak AT mail.wvu.edu) and Vania Jordanova (vania AT lanl.gov). Send the name and contact information of nominations to the same addresses. If you previously applied for a position before the summer workshop, please reapply if you are still interested.  


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2. New GEM "Chair's Chat" Blog!
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From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

I have heard many people in the GEM community say they would prefer more communication and transparency from the Steering Committee.  This is an important issue and one we want to fix. To (partially) address this, I have been inspired by the wonderful blog by Mike Liemohn (for his role as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Geophysical Research) to set up a blog for GEM.  

The goal is to keep the community informed about GEM governance that crosses the desks of the Steering Committee.  The plan is to not overlap with information that goes out to the GEM Messenger newsletter, but to give insight on matters that impact the GEM community and to hopefully encourage the community to give more feedback and contribute to the future directions of GEM.  

The set of entries from the first month of the blog is below; announcements will follow approximately once a month with the entries from that month.

July 1: GEM Chair’s Chat Goes Online
https://gemchairschat.home.blog/2019/07/01/welcome-to-my-blog/

July 31: GEM Child Care Grants
   https://gemchairschat.home.blog/2019/07/31/gem-child-care-grants/

Main Website:   https://gemchairschat.home.blog/


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3. Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities: Request for Community Input
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From: Maura Hagan (maura.hagan at usu.edu)

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate recently embraced as a standard practice the concept of exploiting opportunities for secondary science payloads on launches with excess mass capacity. The National Academies Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) has been asked by NASA’s Heliophysics Division to prepare a short report discussing possible elements of a program with the flexibility and agility to respond to such emergent rideshare opportunities.

The CSSP is seeking community input on this topic, in particular with regards to the following topics:

1) Kinds of solar and space physics science that would be enabled by an agile response to rideshare opportunities, at locations that would provide global perspectives, unique views, or continuous coverage, among others;
2) Types of payloads that are suited to rideshare opportunities, because they are scientifically valuable in single or multiple locations and rapidly deployable with short development times or that can be shelved until a launch becomes available;
3) Considerations for the development and implementation of a new HPD program that would allow agile responses to future short-notice rideshare opportunities.

Input may be contributed by using the input form found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/SSB_052324


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