-------------------------------------------------------------------- GEM Mini-Workshop on Magnetosphere Ionosphere Interactions at the AGU Meeting -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Peterson (pete@willow.colorado.edu) Thursday December 14, 1:00 PM at the San Francisco Moscone Center, Room 220. A new GEM campaign has been organized to investigate Magnetosphere Ionosphere interactions. The two working groups in this campaign will investigate (1) coupling via mass loading from plasma outflows from the ionosphere (Tom Moore and Bill Peterson, chairs) and (2) the electrodynamics of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling (William Lotko and Brian Anderson, chairs). The objective of these working groups is to foster the development of a predictive heliosphere-geosphere interaction model, with ionospheric plasma and electrodynamic coupling appearing as dynamical elements of interactions with the magnetosphere. A mini workshop will be held the afternoon of December 14, 2000, the day before the Fall AGU meeting begins. A preliminary agenda is now on line at http://koala.rice.edu/~toffo/gem2000/GEM_2000mws.html and it will be updated at least once before the meeting. At the workshop we will want to identify topics to be discussed at the GEM 2001 meeting of these working groups in Snowmass Colorado June 16-22, 2001. Because there is a special session SM03 covering electrodynamics of magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions the mini-workshop will place more emphasis on working group (1), M-I coupling via mass loading from plasma outflows from the ionosphere. We are interested in identifying data sets and/or analysis techniques addressing (a) mass exchange characterization and impacts of ionospheric plasmas, (b) methods to include mass exchange in global models. We are also particularly interested in hearing about existing large scale data bases and methods that could be used to adapt data from ground based arrays or satellite images to address MI plasma and electrodynamics coupling questions. A summary of the special session (SM03) will be presented by the organizers. Those presenting papers in SM03 are encouraged to attend the mini-workshop and participate in the discussion and planning of both working groups for Snowmass. To facilitate discussion, We propose to limit presentations to 3 view foils. To assist us in developing an agenda for the meeting, Please contact Bill Peterson (pete@willow.colorado.edu) or Tom Moore (Thomas.E.Moore@gsfc.nasa.gov) (cc: to brian.anderson@jhuapl.edu or william.lotko@dartmouth.edu) if have something you would like to present or if you plan to attend the mini-workshop.