<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="line-height:17.12px"><br><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.12px">The deadline for abstract submission is approaching.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.12px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We would like to draw your attention and invite you to consider submitting an abstract to the </span><span style="color:black">SM026 session in SPA-Magnetospheric Physics at the AGU Fall Meeting, 2023 to be held in San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December, 2023.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black">Session Title:</span></b><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"> SM026. The Importance of Kinetic Alfvén Waves for Microscale Physics</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><b><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Session Description:</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) play significant role in space plasma dynamics at microscale, i.e., at scale length of ion gyro radius or electron inertial length. In Earth’s magnetosphere, KAWs play an important role in energy transfer processes from magnetic-reconnection at magnetopause and magnetotail to dipolarization fronts and auroral dynamics, which is also observed in outer planet magnetosphere.  In heliospheric turbulent plasmas, KAWs are thought to be a critical pathway for energy dissipation at microphysical scales. Spacecraft missions such as THEMIS, Cluster and MMS at Earth, while Solar Orbiter and PSP in solar wind and Cassini and Juno at Saturn and Jupiter are increasingly capable of examining KAWs and their effects in various regions of heliosphere. Further, as simulation capabilities increase, and theoretical boundaries are pushed, novel progress is being made to understand basic KAW physics. This session invites studies related to theory, observations and simulations of KAWs throughout the heliosphere.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black">Abstract Submission Deadline:</span></b><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"> Wednesday, 2 August 2023 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We look forward to receiving your contributions and thank you very much for your attention.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Krushna Chandra Barik</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">David Malaspina</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Pablo S Moya</font></span></p><span style="line-height:17.12px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Satyavir Singh</font></span></div>