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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Dear CEDAR scientists,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">We would like to invite you to participate in the mini-GEM focus group session titled “3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere – Ionosphere - Thermosphere (MIT)
Coupled System”. The IEMIT FG aims to address: 1) where, when, and how magnetospheric energy contributes to the IT system and 2) how the IT system feeds back to the magnetosphere via modelling and observational approaches.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">The annual Mini-GEM workshop will take place on Sunday, December 8th, 2019 at the Holiday Inn San Francisco-Golden Gateway at 1500 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco, California. There are
three IE-MIT sessions scheduled between noon to 5 pm. Similar to the Mini-GEM 2018, the third session will be a joint session with the Modeling Methods and Validation Focus Group.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Please send the title of your talk to Hyunju Connor (<a href="mailto:hkconnor@alaska.edu"><span style="color:#600060">hkconnor@alaska.edu</span></a>) and Dogacan Su Ozturk (<a href="mailto:dogacan.s.ozturk@jpl.nasa.gov" title="mailto:dogacan.s.ozturk@jpl.nasa.gov"><span style="color:#600060">dogacan.s.ozturk@jpl.nasa.gov</span></a>).
We are looking forward to see you there!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Thank you very much,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">p.p. Dogacan Ozturk</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Hyunju Connor, Binzheng Zhang, Gang Lu, Haje Korth</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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