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THE GEM MESSENGERS

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1. Call for GEM Participation in Joint Assembly Special Session: "The Role of the Plasmasphere and Plasmapause in Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Dynamics" (January 30)

2. Call for GEM Participation in LWS CDAW Working Group Sessions 5-9 March 2007 - Florida Tech - Melbourne, FL (http://cism.fit.edu/LWS-CDAW_2007_Main.html)- Deadline for Registration, Abstract Submission and Request for Financial Assistance: January 31, 2007 <== TODAY! (January 31)

3. Call for GEM Participation in Joint Assembly Special Session: "Observational Constraints on Radiation Belt Dynamics" (February 6)

4. 1. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2007; 2. Call for GEM Participation in 2007 Joint Assembly Special Session SM03: Distortions of Inner Magnetospheric Electric and Magnetic Fields (February 15)

5. The GEM 2007 Summer Workshop, June 17-22, 2007, Zermatt, Utah (April 12)

6. 1. GEMstone Vol. 16 No. 1 Is Available Online; 2. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2007 (April 19)

7. GEM 2007 Summer Workshops: Workshop on "Physical Processes in the Cusps: Implications for Plasma Transport and Energization" (May 2)

8. GEM 2007 Summer Workshops: Workshop on "Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause" (May 4)

9. 1. Solicitation of contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, Fields and Coupling" GEM Focus Group; 2. GEM Space Radiation Climatology Focus Group Announcement (May 9)

10. 1. Solicitation of Contribution to the Solar wind plasma Plasma Entry and Tranport into and within the Magnetotail (PET) Focus Group at GEM Workshop on June 17-22, 2007; 2. Future of Community Modeling Session at GEM 2007 Workshop (May 12)

11. 1. NSF GEM: DASI Break-out Session at GEM 2007 Summer Workshops; 2. GEM 2007 Summer Workshops: Breakout sessions on MI Coupling Electrodynamics and Transport (May 14)

12. GEM 2007 Breakout Sessions for a New Focus Group on the "Diffuse Aurora" (May 17)

13. GEM 2007 Workshop FG3 Breakout Session: A campaign concerning fine structure on the sun surviving to 1 AU and hitting the magnetosphere (May 18)

14. Reminders of Upcoming Deadlines the 2007 GEM Summer Workshop, Zermatt, Utah, June 17-22, 2007 (May 21)

15. 2007 GEM Summer Workshop - Extension of the Hotel Deadline to June 4 (Zermatt, Utah, June 17-22, 2007) (May 23)

16. 1. Global-Scale MI Coupling Focus Group (joint session with GGCM), GEM 2007 Summer Meeting (June 18-22, 2007) Zermatt, Utah, Contact: David Murr (david.murr@dartmouth.edu) or Mike Wiltberger (wiltbemj@ucar.edu); 2. Global-Scale MI Coupling Focus Group, GEM 2007 Summer Meeting (June 18-22, 2007) Zermatt, Utah, Contact: David Murr (david.murr@dartmouth.edu) (June 1)

17. 1. Posters for 2007 GEM Summer Workshop (Zermatt, Utah, June 17-22, 2007); 2. GEM GGCM Modules and Methods Breakout Session "Modeling Magnetic Reconnection in Large Systems" (June 3)

18. 1. GEM 2007 Breakout Session: Discussion of a Possible New Focus Group "Magnetotail Dynamics Focus Group"; 2. Solicitation of contribution to the Solar wind plasma Plasma Entry and Tranport into and within the Magnetotail (PET) focus group at GEM workshop on June 17-22, 2007 (June 5)

19. 1. 2007 GEM Summer Workshop (Zermatt, Utah, June 17-22, 2007); 2. GGCM - Metrics Session, Tuesday 10:30 - 12:15 (June 9)

20. An Open Letter to the GEM Inner Magnetosphere Community Regarding FG9 - Space Radiation Climatology (August 6)

21. Geospace Environment Modeling Proposals (August 31)

22. Call for Proposals for New GEM Focus Groups; 2. GEM 2007 Steering Committee Meeting Report (September 5)

23. NSF: Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (October 3)

24. Information Regarding GEM Mini-Workshop in December (October 6)

25. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, Fields and Coupling " Focus Group Session at the GEM 2007 Mini-workshop (November 9)

26. 1. GEM Mini-workshop Session "Bow Shock Phenomena and Their Magnetospheric Impacts"; 2. GEM Mini-workshop Session "Plasma Injection into the Cusp: Role of Magnetic Reconnection and Ionospheric Consequences" (November 11)

27. GEM Mini-workshop Session "Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause" (November 13)

28. 1. THEMIS Conjunctions Days/Times Now Available - Invitation for Joint Observations; 2. PET Focus Group Session at the GEM Mini-workshop (November 15)

29. GEM Mini-workshop: Schedule and Locations (November 27)

30. A few Notes from the Chair (November 30)

31. Air Force Research Laboratory Job Announcement - Scientist with Experience in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Processes (Opening directly related to GEM) (December 5)