CEDAR email: CEDAR-GEM registration due (rooms at La Fonda) and joint workshops

Fri Jun 3 11:41:10 MDT 2011

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 03 June 2011.
Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under
'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'.
CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'.
All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page.
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(1) CEDAR-GEM registration late fees, La Fonda hotel block to June 4.
 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).
See also http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Main

(2) Nonlinear Plasma joint CEDAR-GEM Workshop June 27-28, Santa Fe.
 From Evgeny Mishin <Evgeny.Mishin at hanscom.af.mil> and Anatoly Streltsov 
<anatoly.v.streltsov at dartmouth.edu>.
See also 
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Nonlinear_Plasma_Effects

(3) Announcement of Ion Outflow Focus Group Sessions at the GEM/CEDAR Joint 
Meeting in Santa Fe, June 27 and June 29, 2011.
 From Dan Welling <dwelling at lanl.gov>.
See also 
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_The_Ionospheric_Source_of_Magnetospheric_Plasma 

and
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Special:CEDAR-GEM_Joint_Workshop_Proposal_List 
(click on workshop numbers 5-8).

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(1) CEDAR-GEM registration late fees, La Fonda hotel block to June 4.
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 From Barbara Emery (emery at ucar.edu).

Non-student registrations are due Friday June 3, and late fees of $75
will go into effect at midnight Sunday night on the CEDAR site.

Hotel reservations at the $139 price for the CEDAR-GEM Summer Workshop in
Santa Fe Sunday June 26 (Student-only Student Workshop) to Friday July 1
are done for Eldorado and Hilton hotels, but La Fonda still has rooms
in their block up to Saturday June 4.

CEDAR students should make their airline reservations by June 3 and send
copies to Susan Baltuch at baltuch at ucar.edu.

CEDAR participants should register at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Main
and get accommodations at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Accommodations
or at http://vsp-rosebud.dls.ucar.edu/cedar/hotel.php
and use 'CEDAR Summer Workshop' to book their rooms. GEM participants should
go to http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/ to register and book hotel rooms under
'GEM Summer Workshop' at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/travel.html.

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(2) Nonlinear Plasma joint CEDAR-GEM Workshop June 27-28, Santa Fe.
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 From Evgeny Mishin <Evgeny.Mishin at hanscom.af.mil> and Anatoly Streltsov 
<anatoly.v.streltsov at dartmouth.edu>.

We would like to announce a tentative Program of the "Nonlinear Plasma
Effects in Auroral/Subauroral Plasmas" workshop at the upcoming GEM-CEDAR
workshop in  Santa Fe on June 27-July 1, 2011.

The objective of this workshop is to make an assessment of the contribution
of nonlinear plasma processes to the dynamics of the
magnetosphere-ionosphere system with the emphasis on their effects on the
energy transport and release in the ionosphere and magnetosphere at auroral
and subauroral latitudes.

The workshop description is located at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2011_Workshop:Nonlinear_Plasma_Effects

Sincerely,

Evgeny Mishin <Evgeny.Mishin at hanscom.af.mil> and Anatoly Streltsov 
<anatoly.v.streltsov at dartmouth.edu>

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(3) Announcement of Ion Outflow Focus Group Sessions at the GEM/CEDAR Joint 
Meeting in Santa Fe, June 27 and June 29, 2011.
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 From Dan Welling <dwelling at lanl.gov>.

The new GEM focus group on The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric 
Plasma—Measuring, Modeling and Merging Into the GEM GGCM will hold four joint 
GEM/CEDAR sessions at the upcoming meeting in Santa Fe.  The conveners, Rick 
Chappell, Bob Schunk and Dan Welling would like to invite participation from the 
GEM/CEDAR community for any of the following four sessions.  The sessions will 
begin with a summary overview talk and will be followed by contributed 
workshop-style talks with discussion.  Each session will last two hours.  The 
topics and times of the sessions are listed below.  Please contact the session 
chairman for each of the four sessions to be added to the agenda for the session.

See a description of the Focus Group at 
http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_The_Ionospheric_Source_of_Magnetospheric_Plasma 

and a description of the 4 workshops at
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/Special:CEDAR-GEM_Joint_Workshop_Proposal_List 
(click on workshop numbers 5-8).

<b>June 27, 2011; 1:30-3:30pm—Measurements of Ion Outflow in the Ionosphere and 
Magnetosphere</b>

The Earth’s ionosphere has been shown to be a significant contributor of plasma 
to different particle populations of the magnetosphere.  Through a variety of 
energization processes, the low energy ionospheric particles are transported 
from low altitudes upward into the magnetosphere where they can become more 
energized and can help create fundamentally important regions such as the plasma 
sheet and ring current.  This workshop will review and discuss observations of 
outflow in the ionosphere and magnetosphere as a stimulus for refining existing 
outflow models.

Session Chairman:  Rick Chappell   rick.chappell at vanderbilt.edu

<b>June 27, 2011; 4:00-6:00pm—Modeling Ionospheric Outflow</b>

There is a continuous ion outflow from the Earth at high latitudes. The outflow 
consists of light thermal ions (H+ , He+ and O+) and energized ions (NO+, O2+, 
N2+, O+, N+, He+ and H+). The ion energization in the polar wind is associated 
with photoelectrons, hot magnetosphere electrons and ions, wave-particle 
interactions in the cusp and nocturnal oval at various altitudes, 
electromagnetic wave turbulence above the polar cap, and centrifugal 
acceleration. In addition, the ion outflow occurs in conjunction with 
magnetospheric convection, which causes the high-latitude plasma to drift into 
and out of the dayside ionosphere, cusp, polar cap, nocturnal auroral oval, and 
subauroral night-side ionosphere. Because of the complicated dynamics, various 
ion outflow models have been developed, including hydrodynamic (fluid), 
hydromagnetic, semi-kinetic, kinetic, generalized transport, and macroscopic 
particle-in-cell models. This workshop will identify the ionospheric outflow 
models that currently exist, establish the strengths and limitations of existing 
models, and determine the important outflow processes that need to be included 
in outflow models.

Session Chairman:  Bob Schunk    schunk at cc.usu.edu

<b>June 29, 2011; 10:00-12:00 noon</b>

Geospace Generalized Circulation Models (GGCMs), invaluable tools for studying 
the Earth’s magnetosphere, have historically neglected the ionospheric source of 
magnetospheric plasma.  Recently, an increased recognition of the importance of 
this source has spurred the magnetospheric modeling community towards finding 
new, innovative ways to include it in the large-scale models.  This workshop 
will examine existing merging techniques between outflow and magnetosphere 
models and review recent discoveries concerning the impact ionospheric outflow 
has on the global magnetospheric results.

Session Chairman:  Dan Welling   dwelling at lanl.gov

<b>June 29, 2011; 1:30-3:30pm</b>

The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma: Measuring, Modeling, and 
Merging into the GEM GGCM focus group (or simply Outflow MMM) is a newly 
developed focus group aimed toward combining research of ionospheric outflow 
with Geospace General Circulation Models (GGCMs).  The focus group has four 
major goals: refine existing outflow models through data-model comparisons, 
merge these models into the GGCMs and examine the impact on the magnetosphere, 
evaluate the coupled codes through data-model comparisons, and examine feedback 
from the magnetosphere to the ionospheric outflow.  This session will summarize 
the Outflow MMM sessions that have taken place throughout the GEM/CEDAR meeting 
and work with the GEM and CEDAR communities to plan for the future of the 5-year 
focus group.

Session Chairmen:
*Rick Chappell   rick.chappell at vanderbilt.edu
*Bob Schunk    schunk at cc.usu.edu
*Dan Welling   dwelling at lanl.gov

We look forward to your participation in these joint sessions.

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