<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear CEDAR Community,</p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">as current and incoming Chairs of the CEDAR Science Steering Committee
(CSSC), I and Larisa want
to address & enhance the vitality of the CEDAR Community. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1. The CSSC has supported ongoing work by the
CEDAR Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Taskforce, including last year’s DEI
workshop at vCEDAR2020. This important
work continues with help from the community (Jia Yue and Shasha Zou), as well
as the DEI Taskforce.</p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are
aware of a number of incidents regarding the use of racially charged language
and violent actions against the Asian Community in the past few months across
the US. Our community embraces diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI),
and strongly condemns offensive and hateful speeches and physical attacks, or
racial intolerance of any kind under any circumstances. Asian scientists and
students have contributed significantly to all aspects of the CEDAR sciences
and objectives since the foundation of CEDAR. </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One of the primary responsibilities of CEDAR is to foster an open,
respectful and inclusive research and learning environment for all scientists
and students. We will continue to strive to promote equity and respect in our
community. </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CEDAR will be holding DEI sessions at the upcoming CEDAR workshop to begin
this crucial conversation to support Asian and other minority groups and
continue promoting DEI. We value each and every scientist and student member in
our community, and we are committed to fulfilling the goal to ensure all are
treated with respect and empathy. We
strongly encourage all CEDAR members to participate in the DEI Highlight
Session and the workshop. We hope to
‘see’ you at vCEDAR2021</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2. The Decadal Survey
related to our science is organizing. To
that end, there is a Heliophysics 2050 workshop in session this week that is
open to anyone who wishes to register.
Please be sure your voices are heard at Tuesday’s session related to ITM
and at subsequent ‘distillation’ meetings.
To register go to <a href="https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/registration/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/registration/</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you are already registered you can login via the
information emailed to you last week.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3) The European
community is re-thinking/re-organizing its space weather efforts and invites
participation and ideas related to this.
Only European scientists will ultimately vote on the reorganization, but
scientists worldwide are invited to participate in the discussion. We know CEDAR science is an international
effort that relies on science and instruments in other nations, so please also
chime in. The European space weather ‘Quo
Vadis’ effort will be achieved through different actions indicated on the
webpage <a href="https://quovadis.aeronomie.be/index.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:blue">https://quovadis.aeronomie.be/index.php</span></a> and
special Slack workspace.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Delores J. Knipp (CSSC Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Larisa Goncharenko (Incoming CSSC Chair)</p></div>