<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Dear WHI Team,</span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">First and Foremost, let us thank you for your enthusiastic response to the Whole Heliosphere Interval! After our first round of updates, we have over 200 participants whose research covers the Earth's atmosphere out to the edge of the heliopause. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We'd particularly like to thank our colleagues who have agreed to lead Targeted Observing Plans, Giannina Poletto, Leonard Strachan, Craig DeForest, Scott McIntosh, Sarah Gibson, Bob Leamon, and Mari Paz Miralles. Please see <a href="http://ihy2007.org/WHI/targeted_plans.shtml">http://ihy2007.org/WHI/targeted_plans.shtml</a> for links to these campaign plans. We also wish to extend our appreciation to our CAWSES coordinators, Kazunari Shibata and Janet Kozyra, and to our ULTIMA coordinators Kiyohumi Yumoto and Peter Chi.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The WHI website is <a href="http://ihy2007.org/WHI/WHI.shtml"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0021E8">http://ihy2007.org/WHI</font></a>. Note the "News and Updates" link (<a href="http://ihy2007.org/WHI/WHI_news.shtml)">http://ihy2007.org/WHI/WHI_news.shtml)</a>, which will continue to be updated (this way we keep the volume of emails to this list to a bare minimum). Additionally, Craig DeForest has put together the WHI wiki: <a href="http://whi.boulder.swri.edu/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0021E8">http://whi.boulder.swri.edu</font></a>, please take a look! </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To help us continue WHI planning, please review the following: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Please go to the WHI website and check the "Planned WHI Observations/Models" and "WHI: The People" pages to<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "> determine whether your information is correct. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">We ask that you fill out a WHI profile [<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.hao.ucar.edu/forms/whi_survey_form.html">http://www.hao.ucar.edu/forms/whi_survey_form.html</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">] to ensure that you are appropriately represented.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2) Please review the "Planned WHI Observations/Models" and "WHI: The People" pages for people, observations or models you might think are missing - i.e. would make an excellent addition to WHI or a complement to your observation or model. Please <i>contact them directly</i> <i>about WHI,</i> and forward them this email message. If they are interested in participating, ask them to fill out the WHI profile web form or contact us directly.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div><div>Again, thank you all for your interest in WHI.<div></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sarah Gibson and Barbara Thompson, WHI Coordinators</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>