<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>As announced at the NSF CEDAR Workshop Wednesday morning, this year the LPAG Executive Committee expanded, reordered, and refocused the strategic science areas (SSAs).  </span>The LPAG would strongly
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 and comment boxes available at the <a href="https://lwstrt.gsfc.nasa.gov/lpag" target="_blank">LPAG website</a>.</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(45,45,185);font-weight:bold"></span></span></font></li><li>
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</span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">For CEDAR people - we would specifically appreciate your comments on SSAs V, VI, VII, and IX listed below.  Please visit the website to read details and comment.</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Thank you,</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Rich Collins, Anthea Coster, and Seebany Datta-Barua</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">on behalf of the NASA Living With a Star Program Analysis Group (LPAG) Executive Committee</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">---<br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"></span></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(15,84,204);font-weight:bold">SSA-V: Dynamics of the Global Ionosphere and
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-style:italic">Key Elements</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">
 : Electron Density Profile, Total Electron Content, Storm Time Dynamics, Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances,
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">(revised from original SSA-4, TEC Forecasting)
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-style:italic">Key Elements</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">
 : Plasma Instabilities, Radio Wave Propagation, Scintillation, Polar Cap Absorption
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-style:italic">Key Elements</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">
 : Atmospheric Drag, Heating and Cooling, Waves and Tides </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">(revised from original SSA-2, Satellite Drag Forecasting)
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</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Atmospheric Depletion and Stripping, Magnetospheric Shielding, Stellar Winds, Flares and Mass Ejections
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</span></div></span></span></font></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_2831838999363830641gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Seebany Datta-Barua, Ph.D.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Associate Professor</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Illinois Institute of Technology</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">P: 312.567.3566</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">F: 312.567.7230</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://mmae.iit.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">https://engineering.iit.edu/faculty/seebany-datta-barua</a><div style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div></div></div></div></div>
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