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Dear colleagues,<br class=""><br class="">While you are celebrating the New Year and planning on your travels for 2016, we would like to draw your attention to a meeting in Asia. The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) will hold its annual meeting in Beijing during July 31 to August 5, 2016. Please consider submitting a paper to Session ST17, entitled "Ionosphere And Thermosphere Dynamics And Coupling”, as described below.<br class=""><br class="">AOGS is open for abstract submission from now through Feb 19, 2016. Please follow this link for abstract submission <a href="http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm" class="">http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm</a>; general information about the AOGS Beijing Meeting is here: <a href="http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=home.htm" class="">http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=home.htm</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shunrong Zhang</div><div class="">MIT Haystack Observatory</div><div class="">Phone: 781-981-5725</div><div class=""><br class="">------------------------------------------------------<br class=""> ST17 Ionosphere And Thermosphere Dynamics And Coupling<br class="">———————————————————————————<br class="">Conveners:</div><div class="">Shunrong Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)<br class="">Liubo Liu (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)<br class="">Yongliang Zhang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)<br class="">Jiuhou Lei (University of Science and Technology of China, China)<br class="">Huixin Liu (Kyushu University, Japan)<br class=""><br class="">Mass, momentum, and energy exchanges between the ionosphere and thermosphere (IT) are some of the key subject areas in aeronomy. These processes are know to be fundamental, and may become intensified due to enhancements of direct and indirect impacts from the sun emitting UV radiation and energetic particles. As a result, the ionosphere and thermosphere exhibit strong variability on various spatial and temporal scales, varying with latitudes and disturbance development stages.<br class="">Characteristic IT variations, in the form of disturbance winds and composition in neutral particles, ionospheric dynamo fields as well as polarization fields, traveling<br class="">atmospheric/ionospheric disturbances, etc, have long been the very active research focuses in our community. We are organizing this session for the purpose of promoting analysis, observation, and modeling leading to the enhanced understanding of ionospheric and thermospheric dynamics and coupling. Topic areas of particular interest to this session include, but not limited to, 1) correlation between EIA and Equatorial Thermospheric Anomaly (ETA); 2) storm-time ionosphere and thermosphere variations; 3) traveling ionospheric and atmospheric disturbances (TIDs/TADs) in general and, in particular, during magnetic storms; 4) IT perturbations originated from the below;<br class="">and 5) magnetospheric inputs to the IT system and the IT feedback.<br class=""><br class="">Confirmed speakers:<br class="">Y. Otsuka, A. Saito (Japan); Y. Kwak (Korea); A. Burns, W. Wang, S. Yee, T. Yuan (USA); Z. Xiao, X. Yue, Y. Chen, X. Luan, Q. Zhang (China)<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>