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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">SHIELD DRIVE Science Center Team Meeting Open Session</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">Wednesday, April 29th, 2026, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm ET, Save the Date</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">Register at
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">Join the SHIELD DRIVE Science Center (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://shielddrivecenter.com/" data-outlook-id="6a70c74c-e74e-4afc-9edc-ac2f4b5a9d95" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://shielddrivecenter.com/</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">)
for an Open Session during the 4</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8.8002px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">th</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> SHIELD
Annual Meeting. The topics will focus on the recent advancements in the study of the heliosphere through modeling and data interpretation, including missions like IBEX, Cassini, Voyager, New Horizons, and implications for IMAP. Speakers will include:</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Merav Opher (BU), SHIELD and the Heliosphere</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Federico Fraternale (UAH), Solar-Driven Compressible Disturbances in the Very Local Interstellar Medium and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in the Inner Heliosheath</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Chika Onubogu (BU), SHIELD Time-Dependent Model</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Matina Gkioulidou (JHU/APL), IMAP mission and open questions for the global heliosphere</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Dan Reisenfeld (LANL), Upcoming Outer Heliosphere Science from IMAP and Early ENA Observations</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Eric Zirnstein (Princeton) , Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Energetic Neutral Atoms in the Heliosphere</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Ethan Bair (BU), The Heliosphere with a Self-Consistent Pickup Ion Velocity Distribution Function</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Heather Elliott (SWRI), Slow Down of Solar Wind </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">The meeting is open to the public and will be broadcast online. Please register to receive the meeting link:
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