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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Workshop Announcement: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">A Strategic Vision for Incoherent Scatter Radar</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Virtual/Online</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">April 26-27, 2021</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">This online workshop will conduct interactive discussions to both define a vision that incorporates community views on the most important objectives for future incoherent scatter (IS) radar facilities
and to develop a strategy for pursuing them. The ultimate goal of this workshop is to generate a draft program plan for delivery to U.S. NSF Geospace leadership and the forthcoming US NASEM Decadal Survey. The plan will address key scientific and technical
aspects of future IS radar facilities including those key scientific frontier areas where IS radar techniques and observations are essential for progress.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400">The plan will also discuss the ways future facilities could combine multiple different types of radio and radar observations to address
a broad portfolio of scientific investigations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">A high priority for the organizing committee is to include early career researchers and graduate students in the field. Accordingly, we strongly encourage faculty to invite their graduate students/postdocs
to actively participate in the workshop.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">The workshop will be held on April 26 and 27, 2021 (afternoons Eastern Standard Time). The program will include six serial sessions, each composed of two anchor talks followed by a moderated discussion.
The specific workshop agenda will be made available shortly. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">A workshop registration site is available through the following URL:</span></p>
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<a href="https://forms.gle/of9WyLtC2iBn1Cvi7"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">https://forms.gle/of9WyLtC2iBn1Cvi7</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Participants must register to receive a zoom link to the workshop.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">For more information, please consult any of the workshop organizers:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Anthea Coster (costera@mit.edu)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Phil Erickson (pje@mit.edu)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Dave Hysell (david.hysell@cornell.edu)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Elizabeth Kendall (elizabeth.kendall@ucf.edu)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Roger Varney (roger.varney@sri.com)</span></p>
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