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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none" class="ContentPasted0">We invite you to consider submitting an abstract to the <span style="color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">SA021
session in SPA-Aeronomy at the AGU Fall Meeting, 2023 to be held in San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December, 2023.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Session Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> SA021 -
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">The Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC): Research Goals, Opportunities, and Instrumentation<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Session Description:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">GDC is a six-satellite constellation, designed to investigate the dynamics of the coupling between the ionosphere and thermosphere, with two primary goals: (1)
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">understand how the high latitude ionosphere-thermosphere system responds to variable solar wind/magnetosphere forcing and (2) understand how internal processes
in the global ionosphere-thermosphere system redistribute mass, momentum, and energy. Its orbital configuration will allow, for the first time, coverage of the full range of temporal and spatial scales in the I-T system.
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="ContentPasted0">We invite presentations describing the GDC instrumentation and interdisciplinary science planned. In addition, presentations on possible investigations
using the GDC measurements in conjunction with other data sources and modeling efforts are solicited, including ideas for synthesizing the vast amounts of data engendered.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"> We also
solicit presentations on current </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="ContentPasted0">missions and potential future missions that are synergistic with GDC, as well as presentations focused
on the societal and industrial benefits, such as communications and orbital drag.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Abstract Submission Deadline:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> Wednesday, 2 August 2023 23:59 EDT/03:59
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none" class="ContentPasted0">We look forward to receiving your contributions.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of the session conveners.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none" class="ContentPasted0">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Phil Anderson<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><a href="mailto:Phillip.anderson1@utdallas.edu" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Phillip.anderson1@utdallas.edu</a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Doug Rowland<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><a href="mailto:douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="linkonly">douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov</a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Aaron Ridley<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><a href="mailto:ridley@umich.edu" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="linkonly">ridley@umich.edu</a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Bea Gallardo-Lacourt<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">bea.gallardolacourt@nasa.gov<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<div>Dr. Phillip C. Anderson<br>
University of Texas at Dallas<br>
Director, W. B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences<br>
800 W. Campbell Rd. MS WT15<br>
Richardson, TX 75080<br>
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