<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are pleased to announce the 3rd joint ISWI - SCOSTEP/COURSE online seminar of 2026 by</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> <b>Dr. Dong Lin</b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:13.91px"><b>,</b></span> scheduled for <b>September</b> <b>29</b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>th</b></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">, 2026, </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">at</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>14:00 UTC</b>. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To attend the Webinar, please register </span><a href="https://iswi-secretariat.org/home-page/meetings/iswi-webinars/iswi-webinar-registration/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#0b5394">here</font></span></a></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#0b5394">.</font><font color="#000000"> The MS Teams link will be sent to registered participants 2 days before the event. </font></span></font><span style="background-color:transparent">Please register at least 48 hours before the webinar to ensure timely processing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">For your reference, past  Webinars can be found here (<a href="https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/webinars/ISWI/)" target="_blank">https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/webinars/ISWI/)</a> and SCOSTEP seminars can be found here (<a href="https://cicr.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/site1/info_e/scostep_seminar.html" target="_blank">https://cicr.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/site1/info_e/scostep_seminar.html</a>).</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">With kind regards,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">on behalf of the ISWI - SCOSTEP/COURSE online seminars Committee</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Geetashree Kakoti  (on behalf  <a href="https://scostep.org/online-seminar-series/" target="_blank">SCOSTEP/COURSE online seminar</a>)</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Graciela Molina (on behalf of the</span><a href="https://iswi-secretariat.org/home-page/organization/iswi-webinar-committee" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"> ISWI Webinar committee</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">***********************************************</font></span></p></div></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Title</u><font face="arial, sans-serif">: </font></font><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Multiscale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Studies with the MAGE Model</b><font color="#000000"><br><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Speaker</u><font face="arial, sans-serif">: </font><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dr. Dong Lin </b><br></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, USA</span><br><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Abstract: </u><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Coupling between Earth's magnetosphere and the ionosphere-thermosphere (MIT) system governs the transport of energy and momentum throughout geospace and plays a central role in driving space weather variability. Understanding these coupling processes remains challenging because they span a broad range of spatial and temporal scales - from global magnetospheric dynamics to kinetic-scale plasma processes - and involve distinct plasma populations that require different physical descriptions across the magnetosphere, ring current, and ionosphere-thermosphere.</span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">In this seminar, I will present recent advances in multiscale MIT coupling studies using the <b>Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE)</b> model. Developed through the NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms, MAGE is a two-way coupled whole-geospace model that self-consistently resolves solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere interactions across multiple scales. I will demonstrate how MAGE captures both global-scale geospace dynamics and mesoscale structures, including subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) and traveling ionospheric and atmospheric disturbances (TIDs/TADs), as well as the ionosphere-thermosphere response to interplanetary drivers over a wide range of timescales. These results highlight the importance of accurately representing magnetospheric forcing for reliable simulations of multiscale magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling and space weather.</font><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><br></span></div><img src="cid:ii_mtv0rtn60" alt="ISWISCOSTEP_Seminar_Series_3rd.png" width="562" height="562"><br><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#444444" face="georgia, serif">Geetashree Kakoti, PhD,<br>Designated Assistant Professor</font><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#444444" face="georgia, serif"><font>Division for Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Research,  <span><br><font color="#444444">Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), </font></span></font><span><font color="#444444"><div>Nagoya University, </div><div><font>1 Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan, 464-8601</font></div></font></span></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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