<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>As some of you already know, a new International Astronomy Union (IAU) working group on Comparative Solar Minima was approved at the Rio General Assembly. I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">ts mission is to facilitate international and interdisciplinary research that focusses on the coupled Sun-Earth system during solar minimum periods. Such research seeks to characterize the system at its most basic, "ground state", but also to understand the degree and nature of variations within and between solar minima.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Among other things, this working group will provide an archival home for Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) observations and science.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>We have begun a set of web pages, which may be found at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ihy2007.org/IAUWG/WEBPAGES/IAUWG.shtml">http://ihy2007.org/IAUWG/WEBPAGES/IAUWG.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The email list for this new working group will use the WHI-mail (this address) as its starting point. We expect it to remain a low-volume mailing list. As always, you are free to unsubscribe at any time -- see information at the bottom of the mailing list page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/whi">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/whi</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>I welcome any and all comments and feedback!</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Sarah</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">---------------------------</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Sarah Gibson</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">HAO/NCAR</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">p.o. box 3000</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Boulder, CO</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">80307-3000</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">303-497-1587</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">303-497-1589 (fax)</font></p></div></div> </div><br></body></html>