<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Dear GEM and <span class="il">CEDAR</span> scientists,</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">We invite you to our mini-GEM session titled “3D ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere (<span class="il">MIT</span>) coupled system”. This session will be held between 15:30 - 17:00pm on December 10 (Sunday before the AGU meeting) at the Hilton Garden Inn - New Orleans Convention Center, 1001 S Peters St, New Orleans, LA70130. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">We hope both GEM and <span class="il">CEDAR</span> scientists to join our discussion on the <span class="il">MIT coupling</span> topics and thus create synergy between the two communities for better understanding of a global MIT system. We have 8 speakers so far and here is the tentative schedule.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ol style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;" class=""><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Evan Thomas: New statistical patterns of ionospheric convection derived from SuperDARN observations</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Jennifer Carter: Two mechanisms for dayside polar cap auroral emissions under northward IMF</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Alex Chartier: Puzzling Global (N+S) December Maximum of Polar Cap Patches Observed using Swarm</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Qingyu Zou: Impacts of small scale electric field/particle precipitation on Joule heating: GITM simulations</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Olga Verkhoglyadova: Semi-analytical estimation of energy deposition by Alfven waves into the ionosphere during storms</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Robert Rankin: Suppression of the ionospheric feedback instability</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Ryan McGranaghan: Characteristics of multi-scale field aligned currents and implications for the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Doga Ozturk: Response of the coupled M-I-T system to the March 17, 2015 solar wind dynamic pressure enhancement event, insights from numerical studies</li></ol><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">You can also check the schedule at the following website:</span></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><a href="http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System#2017_Mini-GEM_Workshop" class="">http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System#2017_Mini-GEM_Workshop</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" class="">We are looking forward to your participation in our session.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Thank you very much,</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span class="il">Hyunju</span> Connor, Binzheng Zhang, Gang Lu, and Haje Korth.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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