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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear CEDAR Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Machine Learning-based Geospace Environment Modeling (ML-GEM) is a new resource group selected by the GEM Steering Committee. It has two primary goals: 1) to develop an Artificial Intelligence Modeling Framework
for Advancing Heliophysics Research (AIMFAHR) by integrating community-wide AI efforts and 2) to advance system-of-systems science in Sun-Earth interaction from a data-driven perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At the 2024 GEM summer workshop, ML-GEM participants selected three challenge storms to facilitate community-wide, AI-driven research activities over the coming years: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">January 4, 2023 (minimum Sym-H :-74nT at 09:04UT)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">May 6, 2023 (minimum Sym-H : -108 nT at 05:11 UT)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">May 11, 2024 (minimum Sym-H : -518nT at 02:14 UT)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The goals of this initiative are to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1) Understand the current status of AI-driven heliophysics models, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2) Share new AI techniques and lessons learned, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3) Compile a catalog of ML-ready dataset, and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3) Unify community-wide AI efforts under a single modeling framework, AIMFAHR. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The ML-GEM resource group invites AI-driven studies on the challenge storms to a mini-GEM session, which will be scheduled in the afternoon of Sunday, December 8, prior to AGU, as well as to the regular ML-GEM
session during the 2025 GEM-CEDAR summer workshop. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We look forward to your participation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hyunju Connor, Matthew Argall, Xiangning Chu, Bashi Ferdousi, and Valluri Sai Gowtam (ML-GEM chairs).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Note - If you receive this email on nights and/or weekends, that doesn't mean I expect you to read it or reply at that time. Please read & reply
when you can during whatever your working hours happen to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">---------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Hyunju Kim Connor (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Research Astrophysicist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Geospace Physics Laboratory, Code 673<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Rm. 236, Bldg. 21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">8800 Greenbelt RD, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Email :
<a href="mailto:Hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">Hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tel. : 301-286-7417<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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