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Hello, GEM community! Help us celebrate the GEM Program 30th anniversary during the Virtual GEM 2021 Summer Workshop! The preliminary schedule for VGEM 2021 is available here – please stay tuned for more information as we finalize it. As part of the celebrations, and to capture the spirit of GEM, we would like to exhibit …
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Hello, GEM community! We invite your participation at the virtual GEM Workshop, which will be held via Zoom telecommunications during July 25 – 30, 2021, from 11am – 7pm EST. The Steering Committee (SC) is preparing an exciting program to celebrate GEM 30th anniversary, let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas and …
Dear GEM colleagues and friends, As we are closing another very successful virtual mini-GEM workshop, I would like to thank all of you for attending and sharing your ideas. Hope you enjoyed the Focus Group discussions and planning for the 2021 GEM Summer Workshop (stay tuned for updates whether it will be virtual, hybrid, or …
Hello, GEM community! We invite your participation at the virtual Mini-GEM Workshop, which will be held via Zoom telecommunications during January 19 – 22, 2021, from 10am – 2pm EST. The Focus Groups have scheduled 2-hour Zoom sessions, advertised through the GEM Messenger, GEM Wiki, and in their respective Slack channels (gemworkshop.slack.com). Student townhall meetings …
Hello, GEM community! You may have noticed a bit of a gap between posts here. There has been some work going on behind the scenes – in particular, we ramping up our preparations for the summer workshop, including the GEM plenary sessions and the joint GEM/SHINE day on the Saturday between the individual workshops. Let …
This post is to provide some additional information about Mini-GEM Steering Committee results that were not covered in the recent GEM Messenger newsletter. (1) Lisa Winter from NSF provided a brief update, including the new solicitation for space weather proposals (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505758). She reminded everyone that the GEM and base programs have no deadlines, so proposals …
It has been some time since the last blog entry, but the ramp up to the Mini-GEM meeting is in full swing! The signature feature of GEM workshops is the focus groups, which come from the community. We solicit proposals once a year. The deadline was last Friday, and we got six proposals (a healthy …
Well, the GEM Steering Committee (SC) had it’s first ever (that I know of) “Fall GEM SC meeting” last Friday, a virtual meeting to address a number of topics that couldn’t wait until our next in-person meeting. It was a marathon 2 hour (!) meeting covering a wide range of topics. We truly are lucky …
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For the first time I know of, the GEM Steering Committee (SC) will have a meeting outside of normal GEM meeting times. The SC traditionally met once at the Summer Workshop and once at the Mini-GEM before AGU. What started as in informal wrap-up after the Summer Workshop under Mike Wiltberger turned into another full-fledged …
You may be aware that we had a special lunch session at the 2019 GEM Workshop on the topic of underrepresented people at GEM. I’ve been asked by folks for a summary of the session, so that’s the subject of today’s entry. The planning for the session was a result of a long set of …
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