<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="">Dear CEDAR scientists,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I would like to invite you to participate in the mini-GEM sessions titled “3D ionospheric electrodynamics and its impact on the magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere (MIT) coupled system”. They will be held between 12:00 - 5:00pm on December 9 (Sunday before the AGU meeting) at the Hilton Old Town Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia, ~30mins away from the AGU convention center.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is a tentative schedule for our MIT sessions. Please check the updated schedule at the following website.</div><div 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" class="">http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_3D_Ionospheric_Electrodynamics_and_Its_Impact_on_the_Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere_Coupled_System</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">*** Session 1 - 12:00-13:30 in Jefferson Room ***</b></div><ol style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Kevin Pham - CMIT modeling</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Dogacan Ozturk - the effects of small-scale electric fields on the MIT coupling</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Cheng Sheng - Ionospheric Conductance from COSMIC observations and RCM-GITM coupling</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Qingyu Zhu - Boundary-oriented convection and particle precipitation patterns for IMF Bz southward dominant conditions and their impacts on Joule heating: Preliminary results</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Andrew Kiene - Observations of ion-neutral coupling and Joule heating driven by energy input from the magnetosphere</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Denny Oliveira - Neutral Mass Density Response to Extreme Geomagnetic Storms: Current and Future Perspectives</li></ol><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">*** Session 2 - 13:50-15:20 in Jefferson Room ***</b></div><ol style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Xiaozia Zhang - Diffuse aurora precipitation pattern deduced from the Electron-Cyclotron-Harmonics waves in the inner magnetosphere</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Qianli Ma - Plasma sheet electron scattering and diffuse aurora precipitation by whistler mode chorus waves</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Jonathan Krall - the effect of oxygen on the limiting H+ flux in the topside ionosphere</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Lindsay Goodwin - Cluster-ground conjunctions associated with polar cap density structures</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Alex Chartier - The cause of the puzzling annual variability of polar cap patches</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Jiaen Ren - Statistical Characteristics of Polar Cap Patches Observed by RISR‐C</li></ol><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">*** Session 3 - 15:30 - 17:00 in Salon A&B room ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Ionospheric conductance challenge session jointed with </span>Modeling Methods & Validation (MMV) focus group.<span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">We will discuss observations and model results of the following storms:</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><ul class=""><li class="">2016 Oct 13-15</li><li class="">2013 March 17</li><li class="">2015 Jun 21-24</li><li class="">2012 March 9</li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;" class="">Speakers are as follows.</span></div></div></div><div class=""><ol style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Rob Redmon</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Steve Kaeppler</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Bob Robinson</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Gang Lu - presented by Hyunju Connor</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Margaret Chen</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Agnit Mukhopadhyay - presented by Mike Liemohn</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;" class="">Dan Weimer</li></ol></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are looking forward to your participation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much,</div><div class="">Hyunju Connor, Binzheng Zhang, Gang Lu, and Haje Korth.</div></div><div class="">
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