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<div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Dear Colleagues, </div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We invite you to submit an abstract to our AGU session focusing on the plasma dynamics in the night-side transition region. We encourage the community to submit theoretical work, in-situ measurements, and simulation studies.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">

<div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u>Session number</u>:<span> </span><b>SM014</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u>Session Title</u>:<span> </span><b>Plasma Dynamics in the night-Side Transition Region</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u>Link to submit abstract:</u><b> <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/44653" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://agu.confex.<wbr>com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/<wbr>Session/44653</a></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Session description</u>: <span> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The night-side transition region in the Earth's magnetosphere is where the magnetic topology transitions from a stretched tail-like configuration to a more dipole-like magnetic field. This region hosts important plasma dynamics that impact the flow of energy and mass into the inner magnetosphere and it plays a critical role in the initiation and evolution of near-Earth plasma instabilities that can lead to system-wide effects. Despite its obvious importance in the coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere system, it remains a poorly understood region – primarily due to its time-dependent non-linear mapping to the ionosphere together with limited availability of simultaneous in-situ measurements. New observational capabilities (current and planned) are targeted at providing a wealth of information about key aspects of this region. We invite papers that aim to elucidate the dynamics of plasma processes in this region either through the use of auroral processes or constellations of detailed in-situ measurements, theory and modeling.</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><u style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">Session conveners: </span></u></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>Bea Gallardo-Lacourt</b><span> </span>(<a href="mailto:beatriz.gallardo@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">beatriz.gallardo@ucalgary.ca</a>)<wbr>, University of Calgary</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>Megan Gillies</b>, University of Calgary</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>Shasha Zou</b>, University of Michigan</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>Mike Henderson</b>, Los Alamos</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoratio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