<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class="">Presentations solicited for VGEM Session of interest:<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class="">Merged Modeling and Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and Its Effects (M3-I2)</b></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The Merged Modeling and Measurement of Injection of Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere and its Effects (M3-I2) Focus Group will have two sessions on <b class="">July 27</b> (Tuesday) at the upcoming Virtual GEM meeting on July 25 - July 30, 2021. </div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class="">Virtual GEM meeting website: <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgemworkshop.org%2Findex.php&data=04%7C01%7Cbarbara.giles%40nasa.gov%7C1ff5ddd7218946b8449908d942dd9d80%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637614341868715781%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=W8pgwxOq6Bk%2FI7M3eOClY2dvUQgpfR%2B1YP%2Bn7MqB3D8%3D&reserved=0" class="">https://gemworkshop.org/index.php</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">M3-I2 Session 1: 1:00-2:30 PM ET and Session 2: 3:00-4:30 PM ET.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The Earth’s ionosphere is a significant source of plasma to the magnetosphere and a strong influence on the dynamics of the geospace environment. The ionospheric source is contributing plasma to the plasmasphere, the plasma sheet, and the ring current and through wave-particle interactions is playing a major role in the formation and dynamics of the radiation belts. Hence, understanding of the strength and dynamics of the ion upflow/outflow particles up into the magnetosphere is of critical importance to understanding how the magnetosphere is populated and influenced by these initially low-energy particles. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">In this session, we invite presentations that attempt to improve understanding </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">(1) on the influences of low-altitude ionosphere-thermosphere conditions on ion upflow/outflow into the magnetosphere, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">(2) on the energization processes of the ion upflow/outflow, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">(3) on the e<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">ff</span>ects of ion outflow population on magnetospheric dynamics. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Presentations on data, theory, and modeling are all invited.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Let us know how you would like to contribute!<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Best regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Shasha, Rick, and Barbara</div></div><div class="">
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