<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">MEETING: First International Workshop on Small Satellites for Space Weather Research &amp; Forecasting,  Washington, DC, August 1 - 4, 2017</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">The Small Satellites for Space Weather Research and Forecasting workshop is the first dedicated scientific meeting focusing on specific needs of space weather studies using smallsat platforms. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">We invite a broad scope of contributions related to the applications of small satellites to space weather observations, research, analyses, forecasting, and operations, including those utilizing the CubeSat reference design.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">The overarching goal of the workshop is to identify target scientific questions, geospace domains, and space weather conditions for which small satellites have a decisive advantage over traditional space weather monitoring platforms. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">We will also seek to determine major scientific, engineering, and programmatic challenges in developing dedicated small satellite space weather missions of the future, and to explore the unique training opportunities smallsat-based </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">space weather research &amp; forecasting can offer to academic institutions. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">More details soon.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:13px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-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