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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The team of the Center for Geospace Storms (CGS), one of the NASA DRIVE Science Centers currently in Phase I, would like to bring to community’s attention the virtual workshop we are planning to hold on November
9-10, 2020. Please, mark your calendars!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts, early career scientists and students in the fields of space and atmospheric sciences, for an open-forum discussion of outstanding issues in the physics
of geospace storms, organized around specific topical sessions below. The workshop is planned as a sequence of scene-setting talks given by CGS team members and invited talks given by speakers from the larger community, with plenty of room for discussion between
the talks and at the end of each day. We invite everyone in the community to join the workshop, listen to the talks and participate in the discussion.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We will send out a detailed schedule in the next couple of weeks. A registration page will also be set up (registration is of course free, this is done to protect Zoom and Slack information). Below is a list
of sessions, scene setters and invited speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 1. Ionosphere-Atmosphere Interactions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stan Solomon (NCAR/HAO), scene-setting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nick Pedatella (NCAR/HAO), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Larisa Goncharenko (MIT Haystack Observatory), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 2. Storm enhanced density, tongues of ionization, polar cap patches, and the geospace plume.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bill Lotko (NCAR/HAO), scene-setting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Phil Erickson (MIT Haystack Observatory), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ying Zou (Univ. of Alabama Huntsville), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 3. The role of mesoscale plasmasheet transport in the ring current build-up.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matina Gkioulidou (JHU/APL), scene-setting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jian Yang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Larry Kepko (NASA/GSFC), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 4. Synergy between first-principles models and data analytics.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Shin Ohtani (JHU/APL), scene-setting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tomoko Matsuo (Colorado University), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jacob Bortnik (UCLA), invited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Always feel free to send us your feedback here (cgs.jhuapl.edu/feedback) or simply email the PI at slava.merkin @ jhuapl.edu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Slava Merkin on behalf of the CGS team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><img width="210" height="35" style="width:2.1875in;height:.3645in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D690BE.3F984CA0" alt="signature_986098663"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">--<br>
Viacheslav G. Merkin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Space Exploration Sector<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Applied Physics Laboratory<br>
Johns Hopkins University<br>
(240) 228-1756<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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