<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class="">We would like to draw your attention to the following Earth and Space Science Informatics session at the <b class="">2018 Fall AGU Meeting, 10-14 December 2018 in Washington DC.</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""><b class="">SessionID</b>: 53055<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""><b class="">SessionTitle</b>: <o:p class=""></o:p><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SA015. New scientific measurements in Near-Earth space </span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""><b class="">Session Details</b>: <o:p class=""></o:p><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/53055" class="">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/53055</a> </font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""><b class="">Session Description</b>: <o:p class=""></o:p><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Several new space-based instruments and observatories dedicated to understanding conditions and processes in the ionosphere and upper atmosphere have come online in 2018. These systems will likely provide significant new scientific results and capability for operational model validation. This session is dedicated to informing the scientific community of the new observations that are now available and any new scientific findings that may be reported thus far from observatories in near-Earth space. Discussion of the potential or realization of scientific gains from collaborative efforts between ground-based instruments/networks or older space-based observatories is welcome.</span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p class=""><font size="2" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class="">The session will be an alternative format, with a panel of 8 invited authors and an extended Q&A. We would like to solicit abstracts for the accompanying posters session.</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""> </font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""><b class="">Index Terms</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><font size="2" class=""><span class=""><div class="">0355 Thermosphere: composition and chemistry <br class=""></div><div class="">2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions <br class=""></div><div class="">7894 Instruments and techniques <br class=""></div><div class="">7959 Models<br class=""></div></span><span class=""><br class=""></span></font><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class="">Please note that the <b class="">abstract deadline is Wednesday, 1 August 2018</b>(2359 EDT), so please plan accordingly and submit your abstract soon. Authors will be informed in September regarding the date of their presentation. To submit an abstract please follow this link: <a href="https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">//fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/</a></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class=""> </font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2" class="">Sincerely,<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> Thomas Immel, UC Berkeley</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> Scott England, Virginia Tech</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> Loren Chang, National Central University of Taiwan</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> Richard Eastes, University of Colorado</font></div></div></body></html>