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THE GEM MESSENGERS

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1. Requests for Ideas for Joint GEM-SHINE Sessions (January 9)

2. Change of Contact Information: Benoit Lavraud (January 23)

3. GEMstone Vol. 17 No. 1 Is Available Online (February 27)

4. 2009 GEM Summer Workshop dates (March 4)

5. 1. Second AMISR Science Planning Workshop, June 20-21, 2008, Midway, Utah (with CEDAR/GEM Workshops) - See Also http://www.amisr.com/meetings/2008/ and http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki (click on 'Workshops' and 2008); 2. The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling Summer School 2008, July 21 - August 1, 2008, Boston University (March 13)

6. 1. GemWiki: A New GEM Web Site; 2. CALL FOR PAPERS: JGR Special Section "Entropy properties, constraints, and transitions related to plasma transport, turbulence, and information flow throughout the heliosphere, magnetosphere, and boundaries" (April 10)

7. GEM Workshop Website and Online Registration (April 12)

8. GEM Focus Group "Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions" (April 15)

9. New GEM Focus Group "Modes of Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Energy Transfer" (April 21)

10. 1. Solicitation of Contributions to the 2008 GEM Session(s) on "Physical Processes in the Cusps: Plasma Transport and Energization"; 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the 2008 GEM Session(s) on "Bow Shock Phenomena and their Magnetospheric Impacts" (April 25)

11. New GEM Focus Group "Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes" (April 26)

12. 1. THEMIS Software Tutorial and Clinic GEM Meeting: Thu, Jun 26, Zermatt Utah; 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the 2008 Joint GEM-SHINE Session on "Multiple-Dip Geomagnetic Storms: Solar-Wind Drivers or Internal Magnetospheric Processes" (April 30)

13. Sessions for New GEM Focus Group "Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions" (May 5)

14. Solicitation for GEM Community Participation in a Special Planning Session for the New GEM Focus Group "Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions" (May 8)

15. 1. Solicitation of Contributions to the 2008 GEM Session on "Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection"; 2. Diffuse Auroral Precipitation Sessions at 2008 GEM Workshop (May 15)

16. 1. GEM/SHINE Joint Session on "Perpendicular ion heating: observations on Earth and theory at the Sun"; 2. Two GEM Breakout Sessions: "Solar wind-magnetosphere coupling: Theory and simulations" "How does the physics of magnetic reconnection scale up to reality?" (May 19)

17. 1. GEM 2008 Summer Workshop Information at the GemWiki Website; 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Plasma Entry and Transport into and within the Magnetotail (PET)" Focus Group at the GEM 2008 Summer Workshop; 3. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, Fields and Coupling" Focus Group at the GEM 2008 Summer Workshop (May 23)

18. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Electrodynamics and Transport" (MICET) Focus Group at the GEM 2008 Summer Workshop (May 27)

19. 1. GGCM Metrics and Validation Focus Group: Solicitation for GEM Community Participation in Inner Magnetosphere Models Metrics and Validation; 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Space Radiation Climatology" Focus Group at the GEM 2008 Summer Workshop; 3. New GEM Focus Group "Substorm Expansion Onset: The First 10 Minutes" Second Announcement for the GEM 2008 Summer Workshop 9may 28)

20. 1. GEM 2008 Summer Workshop Updates; 2. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Modes of Solar-wind Magnetosphere Energy Transfer" Focus Group at the GEM 2008 Summer Workshop (May 29)

21. Joint GEM-SHINE Sessions at 2008 GEM Summer Workshop (June 10)

22. Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions Wiki Page Is Up (July 3)