[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 29, Number 5

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 29, Number 5
Mar.06,2019

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Table of Contents

1. GEM Summer Workshop 2019 Announcement

2. Request for Community Input on Benchmarks for Space Weather

3. Honoring Don Carpenter

4. NASA SBIR/STTR 2019 Program Solicitation is Open w/Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development

5. MMS Data in Python with pySPEDAS

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1. GEM Summer Workshop 2019 Announcement
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From: Chia-Lin Huang, Christopher Mouikis (chia-lin.huang at unh.edu)

The GEM 2019 Summer Workshop will be held during June 22-28, 2019 at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, NM. Please go to our new conference website http://gemworkshop.org for the meeting information.

   - There will be a CEDAR-GEM joint meeting on Saturday June 22.

   - Student day is on June 23

   - Regular GEM week on June 24 – 28

Some important dates:

   - Application for student support: March 1 - April 30, 2019

   - Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 15, 2019

   - Deadline for poster submissions: May 31, 2019

If you have questions on registration, student financial support, family care grant, and the workshop, please contact the GEM coordinators at University of New Hampshire:

   Chia-Lin Huang (chia-lin.huang at unh.edu) and 

   Christopher Mouikis (chris.mouikis at unh.edu)

For questions about hotel, student accommodation and travel arrangement, and registration payment, please contact:

   Umbe Oliveira-Cantu (olivevents at comcast.net)

Looking forward to meeting you at the GEM!


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2. Request for Community Input on Benchmarks for Space Weather
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From: Michael Wiltberger (mwiltber at nsf.gov)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is sponsoring an effort that seeks to engage the space weather community to develop the next phase of space weather benchmarks. As a point of reference, the U.S. National Science & Technology Council released Phase 1 benchmarks in June 2018. This new NSF-sponsored effort seeks to improve on the Phase 1 Benchmarks and identify opportunities for research efforts that will improve the understanding of extreme space weather, resulting in better benchmarks and preparedness. This effort, supported by NASA and the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, is being chaired by Geoff Reeves (LANL).

To support this effort, we are requesting input from the space weather community. Your input will help improve the fidelity and utility of space weather benchmarks and support development of a more refined Phase 2 Benchmarks study. This input may also be used to inform Federal research and development R&D priorities. For more information, please see the following link: https://idalink.org/SWxBenchmarks


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3. Honoring Don Carpenter
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From: Vikas Sonwalkar, Antony Fraser-Smith, Umran S. Inan, Mark Golkowski, Jacob Bortnik (jbortnik at gmail.com)

Donald Leland Carpenter, 91, a pioneer space scientist, passed away peacefully on February 5, 2019, in Santa Cruz, California. Don Carpenter, as he was generally known,  is best  known as the discoverer of what is now called the ‘plasmapause’ (affectionately also known as ‘Carpenter’s Knee’), the sharp drop in the density of plasma  that co-rotates with the Earth and plays a fundamental role in the physics of the upper atmosphere. 

Born on January 3, 1928, in Spokane, Washington, Don graduated from Grant High School in Portland, Oregon and served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1948. He then studied international politics and language at Willamette University and in 1951 moved to New York City to pursue his Master’s degree in Political Science at Columbia University. Ultimately, discovering his true calling, as described in his contribution to the 1997 AGU publication Discovery of the Magnetosphere, Don settled in the Bay Area, attending Stanford University for his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering.  He was a research professor for over 40 years at the Space Telecommunications & Radio Science Laboratory (STAR Lab) at Stanford University, a career he truly enjoyed. Using naturally-occurring and manmade very low frequency (VLF) waves as a tool to probe the upper atmosphere, Don made significant contributions to many areas of magnetospheric physics until he was well into his eighties.  At age 87 Don authored a book on the history of radio research at Stanford entitled Very Low Frequency Space Radio Research at Stanford 1950 – 1990. In 2002, he was nominated by Belgium and awarded the John Howard Dellinger Medal by the International Union of Radio Science “For his discovery of the plasmapause, for pioneering studies of the plasmasphere structure and dynamics and for development and use of whistler-mode waves as diagnostic probes of the magnetosphere.” In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.  Collaborators and close friends of Don included scientists from all parts of the world.  A man of impeccable integrity and great personal humility and generosity, Don was truly loved by his colleagues, students, friends, and family alike. 

Don helped to form a running group at Stanford called the Angell Field Ancients where he made many life-long friends. Later in life when Don could no longer run, he and his beloved wife of more than 50 years, Betty Carpenter, spent many hours hiking trails near their home in Palo Alto, California. In addition to running and scientific discovery, Don had a passion for languages speaking several fluently. Two years ago, Don moved to Aptos, California to be closer to family, including his granddaughter who brought him much joy.

Don is survived by his two sons, Frederic P. Carpenter and his wife Rose of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Jesse V. Carpenter and his wife Erika and granddaughter Megan of Aptos, California, and his brother Richard Carpenter of Portland, Oregon. A life celebration memorial will be held at the Palo Alto Lucie Stern Community Center on Saturday March 16 at 1 pm. For more information or to RSVP please email memorialDLC2019 at gmail.com.


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4. NASA SBIR/STTR 2019 Program Solicitation is Open w/Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development
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From: James Spann, PhD (jim.spann at nasa.gov)

The NASA SBIR/STTR programs provide opportunities to small business concerns to engage in the research, development, and demonstration of technologies that both fulfill NASA needs and have the potential for successful commercialization. The 2019 Program Solicitation is now open and includes subtopic S5.06, Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development. Phase I proposals are due by March 29, 2019 at 5:00 pm EST.

The subtopic S5.06 is intended to help the NASA Heliophysics Program meet its research obligations to prepare our nation for space weather events.  Four areas have been identified for priority development:

• Preparation and validation of existing science models that may be suitable for transition to operational use
• Innovations to produce and/or further refine space weather operational benchmarks
• Data assimilation innovations that enable tools and protocols for the operational space weather community
• Instrumentation concepts, flight architectures, and reporting systems suitable for data assimilation into space weather monitoring and forecasting systems

For complete information, please see the S5.06 Space Weather R2O/O2R Technology Development Subtopic at https://sbir.nasa.gov/solicitations.  The NASA SBIR/STTR Help Desk can answer questions (sbir at reisystems.com / 301-937-0888, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri., Eastern Time).

James Spann, PhD
Space Weather Lead
Heliophysics Division, NASA HQ 


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5. MMS Data in Python with pySPEDAS
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From: Eric Grimes, Jim Lewis, Vassilis Angelopoulos and the SPEDAS team  (egrimes at igpp.ucla.edu)

MMS Data in Python with pySPEDAS
Time: Wednesday, March 6, 2018 10:00 AM Pacific Time / 1:00 PM Eastern Time 

The SPEDAS development team invites you to a webinar we'll be holding on Wednesday, March 6, 2018 at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. The focus of this webinar will be on loading and plotting MMS Data in Python with pySPEDAS (and pyTplot). In addition to loading and plotting the data, we'll include examples of how to access the data values, manipulate the plots and save the data values to files. We'll also show how to use various analysis tools in pySPEDAS on MMS data products.

Tentative agenda:
- Introduction
- Loading MMS Data in Python
- Plotting MMS Data in Python
- Analysis Tools
- Future Plans

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