CEDAR email: CEDAR Session: How does GDC Science address the new decadal survey?

[Katelynn Greer]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite your participation in the CEDAR session: How does GDC Science address the new decadal survey?

The Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) is a mission to study the coupling between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere/thermosphere system. GDC will address crucial scientific questions pertaining to (1) understand how the high latitude ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system responds to variable solar wind/magnetosphere forcing and (2)understanding how internal processes in the global ionosphere-thermosphere system redistribute mass, momentum, and energy. GDC will be the first mission to address these objective on a global scale due to its use of a constellation of spacecraft (6) that enable simultaneous multi-point observations. In this session we will have a panel discussion of relevant guiding questions, focus areas and observational needs outlined in the new Decadal Survey (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27938/the-next-decade-of-discovery-in-solar-and-space-physics).  This will be followed by short presentations describing how GDC science addresses the Decadal Survey guidelines and how progress will be made.  We are interested in insights of both the Ionospheres-Thermospheres-Mesospheres panel as well as the Magnetospheres panel reports.  We suggest presentations to adopt the language of the Decadal Survey for explaining their GDC relevant science.

The session is scheduled from 4-6pm, Monday 23 June.  If you would like to contribute a short presentation to the session, please contact Katelynn Greer at katelynn.greer at lasp.colorado.edu<mailto:katelynn.greer at lasp.colorado.edu>

Thank you!
Katelynn
Olga
Bea
Austin

Dr. Katelynn Greer (she/her)
katelynn.greer at lasp.colorado.edu<mailto:katelynn.greer at lasp.colorado.edu>
(970) 310-4628

Research Associate
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
-Hugh Walpole

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