[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 30, Number 2

Thu Jan 16 17:12:57 PST 2020

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 30, Number 2
Jan.16,2020

Announcement submission website:
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Table of Contents

1. Mini-GEM Steering Committee Minutes

2. Call for Papers: JGR/GRL/SWE Special Section on "Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves"

3. General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of International Union of Radio Science (URSI-GASS) from 29 August to 5 September, 2020, Rome, Italy.

4. COSPAR Session D2.3 / E3.3 “Thermal and Dynamic Plasma Instabilities on Multiscales: From Laboratories to Planets, the Sun/Stars, Galaxies, and Beyond”

5. COSPAR Session D3.2 "Cross-scale Coupling and Multi-point Observations in the Magnetosphere" -- Abstracts Due by February 14

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1. Mini-GEM Steering Committee Minutes
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From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

Thank you for your patience during the holiday season which delayed the distribution of the minutes to the steering committee meeting that occurred at Mini-GEM.  They have now been approved and posted on the GEM website, https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Other_Documents_and_Reports.  Please let any steering committee member know if you have any questions or comments!

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2. Call for Papers: JGR/GRL/SWE Special Section on "Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves"
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From: Peter Chi, Kazue Takahashi, and Alfredo Del Corpo (pchi at igpp.ucla.edu)

We are happy to inform you that JGR-Space Physics, GRL, and Space Weather have jointly approved a special section in AGU journals entitled “Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves.” The scope of this special section can be found below. 

Manuscripts are being accepted through March 31, 2020. When you submit your manuscript to this special section, please look for “Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves” in the special issue drop-down menu.

If you have a related article under review by one of the above three AGU journals, and if you are interested in joining this special seciton, please let us know whenever we can assist you in coordinating with the associated Editorial Office.

JGR/GRL/SWE Special Section:
Probing the Magnetosphere through Magnetoseismology and Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves

The vast magnetosphere can experience a variety of impulses and fluctuations at ultra low frequencies (ULF) that result from the interaction with the solar wind or internal resonances and wave-particle interactions. These continuous or impulsive perturbations provide a unique way to probe the state of and physical processes in the magnetosphere. In particular, two magnetoseismic methods have been well demonstrated for investigation of the magnetosphere. Observations of the widespread field line resonance in the magnetosphere show the variability of the plasmasphere in timescales ranging from within an hour to over a solar cycle. Timing impulse arrivals has enabled new capability of remotely monitoring sudden impulses and substorm onsets, which are important magnetospheric phenomena but rarely measured on site. The occurrence of certain ULF wave types, such as electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves or long-period poloidal waves, can imply the existence of warm plasma populations. This special issue solicits all papers that use magnetoseismology and/or ULF waves to explore the magnetosphere.

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3. General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of International Union of Radio Science (URSI-GASS) from 29 August to 5 September, 2020, Rome, Italy.
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From: Wen Li (wenli77 at bu.edu)

The DEADLINE for submission of abstracts, for application for Young Scientists Award, and for Student Paper Competition is JANUARY 31, 2020. The abstracts submission website is the following: https://www.ursi2020.org/author-info-abstract-submission/

We particularly invite students to participate the URSI-GASS 2020 Student Paper Competition. Young Scientists Awards will be set up to assist young scientists to attend the URSI-GASS. The full details can be found at https://www.ursi2020.org/

Please note that we will ACCEPT USUALLY FORMATTED ABSTRACTS prepared in the template named "extended abstracts". Authors who wish to submit a longer "Summary Paper" with figures and references to the proceedings still have the opportunity to do so but not required unless the authors apply for a Young Scientists Award. The abstracts have to be submitted as pdf files.

The URSI-GASS will have an open scientific program covered by ten Commissions of URSI, two of which (Commission H and G) are closely related to the GEM community. Please find the full scientific program at https://www.ursi2020.org/program/

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4. COSPAR Session D2.3 / E3.3 “Thermal and Dynamic Plasma Instabilities on Multiscales: From Laboratories to Planets, the Sun/Stars, Galaxies, and Beyond”
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From: Patrick Antolin, Katariina Nykyri, Wei Liu (nykyrik at erau.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

As the abstract deadline rapidly approaches (February 14, 2020 at 23:59 UTC), I'd like to bring to your attention a cross-disciplinary session on thermal and dynamic plasma instabilities, at the 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, hosted in Sydney, Australia, 15-22 August, 2020. This session brings together solar, astrophysical, space and laboratory plasma physicists to explore these multiscale phenomena. 

Our session is titled “Thermal and Dynamic Plasma Instabilities on Multiscales: From Laboratories to Planets, the Sun/Stars, Galaxies, and Beyond” (listed as event D2.3 / E3.3: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=877) and builds on the previous, very successful session of similar name at COSPAR 2018 in Pasadena (event D2.2/E3.2 "Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona (Prominences and Coronal Rain) and Non-solar Analogs”).

We have 2 full days (total 12 hours) allocated to this session and expect to accommodate many (if not all) oral requests, yet leaving some time to allow for in-depth discussions. We encourage you to submit an abstract at your earliest convenience.

To do so, please follow this link to login:
  https://www.cospar-assembly.org/user/mypapers.php?log=1

Partial financial support up to 1200 Euros is available to a limited number of participants; applications are due on Feburary 14, 2020 (see instructions at https://www.cospar-assembly.org/show_infopage.php?info=19 )

Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Sydney.

Best,
Patrick Antolin, Katariina Nykyri and Wei Liu
on behalf of SOC

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5. COSPAR Session D3.2 "Cross-scale Coupling and Multi-point Observations in the Magnetosphere" -- Abstracts Due by February 14
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From: Katariina Nykyri (nykyrik at erau.edu)

We invite abstract submissions to the 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly session D3.2: Cross-scale Coupling and Multi-point Observations in the Magnetosphere, to be held in Sydney Australia on 15-23rd of August, 2020. You can submit your abstract using the following link.

https://www.cospar-assembly.org/user/addabstract.php  The deadline for abstract submissions is 14 February 2020.

Session D3.2 will hold five scientific half-day events organized based on topics in the following session description. Session D3.2 has two confirmed invited speakers for each half-day event and are listed below.

D3.2: Cross-scale Coupling and Multi-point Observations in the Magnetosphere

One of the most compelling problems in near collisionless space plasmas is to understand how energy is being transferred between different spatial and temporal scales. Great progress has been made in understanding the physical mechanisms that allow the solar wind energy and plasma transport and circulation through the magnetosphere-ionosphere system. The main mechanism, allowing plasma and energy transport across the magnetopause and release in the magnetotail during substorms, is magnetic reconnection. While the micro-physics of reconnection is actualized in the ion and electron diffusion regions, the resulting field configuration has global effects on the magnetosphere. Also, other processes can affect the external boundary conditions that drive reconnection. These include velocity shear driven Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI), high-speed jets, or other processes that can create a thin current sheet. KHI is a multi-scale process that can lead to development of shocks, secondary instabilities, plasma wave mode excitations, as well as reconnection. These processes heat and accelerate plasma affecting the global state of the magnetosphere. This session invites studies of cross-scale processes in the magnetospheric system using space or ground based data and simulations. We also invite papers on multi-spacecraft mission concepts targeted for understanding the remaining science questions in the magnetospheric system.

Confirmed list of Invited Speakers:
Li Jen Chen (GSFC&University of Maryland, USA),
Natalia Ganushkina (University of Michigan, USA/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland),
Joo Hwang  (South West Research Institute, USA),
Cecilia Norgren (University of Bergen, Norway)
Tai Phan (Space Science Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, USA)
Alesando Retino (Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, France)
Julia Stawarz (Imperial College, London, UK),
Juan Alejandro Valdivia (University of Chile, Chile),
Ivan Vaskoiy (Space Science Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, USA),
Rick Wilder (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

We look forward to seeing you in Sydney!

Best wishes,
Katariina Nykyri (MSO), and SOC:  Maria Stepanova, Thomas E. Moore, Bertrand Lembege and Anatoly Petrukovich

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