<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Hope everyone is enjoying CEDAR! We would like to draw your attention to a NSF/ANSWERS student online workshop that is being hosted by Clemson University on July 17, 2023.</span></div><div><font color="#202124" face="docs-Roboto"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;">We welcome students’ participation from the CEDAR community to contribute presentations of their work. Comprehensive tutorials will be offered on subjects related to space weather driven from both below and above.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">ANSWERS Student Workshop</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><b>Impacts of Atmospheric Waves and Geomagnetic Disturbances on Quiet-time and Storm-time Space Weather</b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">17 July 2023</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">Online (<span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Zoom link): </span><a href="https://clemson.zoom.us/j/8111381902" style="font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://clemson.zoom.us/j/8111381902</a><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">Space weather refers to the dynamic changes in near-Earth space caused by complex Sun--Earth interactions. Space weather can pose hazards to electric power grids, telecommunications, spacecraft operations, and astronaut health.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">The goal of this ANSWERS project is to advance our understanding of <b>how the Earth's Ionosphere-Thermosphere (IT) system changes due to the combined effects of magnetospheric forcing and forcing from the Earth's lower atmosphere</b>, including extreme weather events such as tornadoes, and space storms. <br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">Understanding IT system variability is an essential element to predict space weather. Extensive historical and ongoing observational data and state-of-the-art weather and geospace models are being used in this investigation. <br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><b><font color="#205bff"><br></font></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><b><font color="#205bff">The goal of this workshop is to facilitate graduate and and undergraduate participation in this research by providing a forum for students to present their own work relevant to space weather impacts and give students an opportunity to learn from tutorials given by the ANSWERS team members and invited speakers.</font></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><b><font color="#205bff"><br></font></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><font color="#ff1f00">Open for registration</font></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><font color="#202124" face="docs-Roboto"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;">Registration link: </span></font><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT0JXqzq18bp6aoYv-k_oUXRi5cQBj1UdyQ55Gmyqv9Biu_Q/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT0JXqzq18bp6aoYv-k_oUXRi5cQBj1UdyQ55Gmyqv9Biu_Q/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">We look forward to seeing you there,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;">Xian</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></div><div>
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