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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear CEDAR colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’d like to invite you to a special mini-GEM session on the upcoming TRACERS mission. Our session will be held at the Williford C room, Hilton Chicago Hotel
<span style="color:black">(720 South Michigan Avenue) during 15:30 – 17:00 on Dec 11,</span> Sunday before the AGU fall meeting.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The goal of this session is to find strong science rationale with CEDAR and GEM scientists so that TRACERS can expand the high-resolution data collection region to auroral zone and low-latitude/equatorial ionosphere. Currently, TRACRES
will observe only the northern cusp. Your input is highly valuable!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a tentative session schedule. </p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Introduction to TRACERS mission - Craig Kletzing (15min)</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">TRACERS potential data collection in low-latitude/equatorial ionosphere and aurora zone - John Dorelli/Steve Fuselier (15-20min)</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">GOLD mission and science investigations with TRACERS - Richard Easters & Wenbin Wang (15min)</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">GDC mission and science investigations with TRACERS - Doug Rowland (15min)</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Discussion – inputs from CEDAR and GEM scientists on science with expanded TRACERS dataset (25-30min)</li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please visit the following link to find the mini-GEM schedule, hotel floor map, and online meeting links for virtual attendants.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRQX2u2UJkqRi8w3hk2KhSduS-3mok0E6O9OYZLY6ySdkLG5sh7efeXdABJq0_x8pu5tox0n0ccbFt3/pubhtml">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRQX2u2UJkqRi8w3hk2KhSduS-3mok0E6O9OYZLY6ySdkLG5sh7efeXdABJq0_x8pu5tox0n0ccbFt3/pubhtml</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can register the mini-GEM workshop for free using the following link. It takes less than a minute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://gemworkshop.org/pages/miniRegistration.php">https://gemworkshop.org/pages/miniRegistration.php</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is the TRACERS session abstract.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">===</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Tandem Reconnection And Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission is the NASA Heliophysics Explorer mission with expected launch in 2024. The overarching mission goal is connecting the magnetospheric cusp to the
magnetopause – discovering how spatial or temporal variations in magnetic reconnection drive cusp dynamics. The TRACERS mission consists of two identically instrumented satellites in the same low-Earth, sun-synchronous orbit with the spacecraft separated by
10-120 s along the orbital track. TRACERS makes field and particle observations in the northern cusp. Its instrumentation includes ion and electron spectrometers, DC electric and magnetic field and AC wave measurements. The TRACERS team currently considers
expanding its data collection area from the northern cusp to a global ionosphere (especially near the equator and the auroral region), and thus supports the upper atmosphere research. In this session, we will introduce mission details and discuss potential
science opportunities of TRACERS with the GEM and CEDAR communities.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hyunju Connor, John Dorelli, Li-jen Chen, Reiner Friedel, and Craig Kletzing</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hyunju Kim Connor (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Research Astrophysicist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Geospace Physics Laboratory, Code 673<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greenbelt, MD, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov">Hyunju.k.connor@nasa.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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