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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Colleagues,</span><br class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please consider participating in the CEDAR/GEM session “<b class=""><font color="#660000" class="">Decadal Survey ITM Missions — How to Best Engage the CEDAR/GEM Community</font></b></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"
on </span><b class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monday</b><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, June 20, </span><b class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4:00-6:00 PM</b><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">In the recent NRC Decadal Survey, a variety of critical science topics relating to CEDAR and GEM science goals were discussed by the Atmosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (AIMI) Panel led by Jeff Forbes and
Jim Clemmons, and two new satellite mission concepts were developed to address some of these:</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">— Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC): A multi-spacecraft mission to study the pathways by which solar wind and lower atmospheric forcing drive the tightly coupled ionosphere-thermosphere system on a global scale,
for the first time. GDC is a major (strategic) Living With a Star mission to study both ITM and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling.</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">— Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) is a strategic, new Solar-Terrestrial Probe initiative. DYNAMIC would focus on lower atmosphere forcing of the ionosphere-thermosphere system.</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">Both of these missions represent a new beginning for space-based research, using proven multi-point and global-scale measurements that would be funded by NASA but represent watershed opportunities for the CEDAR/GEM
community in terms of support of ground-based observations, data analysis, modeling, theory, students, etc. Given that these are both large-scale strategic NASA missions, it is critical to develop community input on the best ideas for their ultimate implementation.</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">This session represents an opportunity for community members to discuss the motivation and expectations of these exciting new missions and their “game changing” science return. We urge everyone to come with their ideas
to help make these missions a reality.</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">This session will serve to discuss recent (post-decadal survey) scientific findings relevant to these missions, and to stimulate discussion in the community about the breadth and depth of the science return from the
missions. In addition, discussions of how these missions might integrate with future CEDAR/GEM science plans, and NSF ground-based observations over the next decade would be desirable.</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Times;">The opportunity for community input begins now in anticipation of the opening of funding wedges in the NASA budget as Solar Probe Plus and the Solar Orbiter Collaboration near their launches. Strong community interest
in, and input towards, the implementations of future strategic ITM missions is needed to galvanize these directions within the NASA science agenda.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Interested parties who would like to present should contact the session conveners: Larry Paxton (</span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asti.bhatt@sri.com" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Larry.Paxton@jhuapl.edu</a><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">),
Rod Heelis (</span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:elizabeth.kendall@sri.com" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">heelis@utdallas.edu</a><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), Jim Clemmons (</span><a href="mailto:James.H.Clemmons@aero.org" class="">James.H.Clemmons@aero.org</a>)<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
Doug Rowland (</span><a href="mailto:douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov" class="">douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov</a>)<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and Rob Pfaff (</span><a href="mailto:robert.F.Pfaff@nasa.gov" class="">robert.F.Pfaff@nasa.gov</a>)</div>
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thank you,</span></div>
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Larry Paxton, Rod Heelis, Jim Clemmons, Doug Rowland, and Rob Pfaff</span><br class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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