<div dir="ltr"><div>Please send the following AGU session announcement to the CEDAR community.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>





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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">AGU Fall 2020 Meeting Session: Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Asymmetry (SM011)</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">From: </span>Hyomin Kim (NJIT), Andrew Gerrard (NJIT), Daniel Welling (UTA), Karl Laundal (University of Bergen)</p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">(hmkim at <a href="http://njit.edu">njit.edu</a>)</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">We invite you to submit an AGU abstract to the co-organized (SM/A/AE/SA/SH sections) session on "Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Asymmetry”. More detailed information can be found on the website at <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/103442"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/103442</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">SM011: Geospace Research from Polar Environments: A Focus on Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Asymmetry</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Session Description:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The uniqueness of polar regions for conducting geospace research has been acknowledged for decades. This is because instrumentation located at high-latitudes allows access to a natural laboratory for studying the Earth’s atmosphere, its space environment, and solar-generated interplanetary structures. Given that the polar regions are critical for geospace research, the interhemispheric conjugacy and asymmetries in the polar regions remain an area fraught with unknowns and open questions, representing a barrier to understanding the thermosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system. These interhemispheric features may manifest in a number of ways, including auroral patterns, induced electrical currents, geomagnetic field geometry, ionospheric electrodynamics, ion-neutral coupling, temperature and winds in the neutral atmosphere, and more. This session solicits papers on recent advances in space physics, aeronomy and space weather focusing on interhemispheric conjugacy and asymmetries in polar regions. Studies discussing observations or modeling results that place polar dynamics in global context are highly encouraged.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Hyomin Kim, Andrew Gerrard, Daniel Welling, Karl Laundal</span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;width:525px;border-spacing:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(35,38,54);font-family:Poppins,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><tbody style="border:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em"><tr><td style="padding:5px;font-size:0.9em;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(255,0,0);border-width:0px 3px 0px 0px;border-bottom-style:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:rgb(204,0,0);border-left-color:initial;width:180px;vertical-align:middle"><a href="https://www.njit.edu/" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183)" target="_blank"><img src="https://assets.njit.edu/uicomponents/NJIT-email-logo.png" alt="NJIT logo" style="border:0px;display:block;vertical-align:middle;width:150px;height:auto;max-width:150px"></a></td><td style="padding:5px 5px 5px 10px;font-size:12px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:16px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong style="color:rgb(111,111,111);font-size:13px">Hyomin Kim</strong><br><font color="#6f6f6f">Assistant Professor</font><br><font color="#6f6f6f">Physics<br></font><font color="#666666">Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research<br>Institute for Space Weather Sciences</font><br><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:hmkim@njit.edu" target="_blank">hmkim@njit.edu</a> • <span style="white-space:nowrap">(973) 596-5704</span><br><a href="https://web.njit.edu/~hmkim/" target="_blank">https://web.njit.edu/~hmkim/</a><br>104 Tiernan Hall, 161 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102<br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>