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						     Volume 7, Number 22
						     June 18, 1997

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Plans for next ISTP Science Workshop
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From PEREDO at istp1.gsfc.nasa.gov Wed Jun 18 12:24:16 1997

To:	  ISTP and Space Science Communities
From:	  ISTP Project
RE:	  Plans for next ISTP Science Workshop

	Following the successful ISTP workshops of January and April 1997, 
the ISTP project is planning another science workshop on November 4-6, 1997.  
As with the earlier workshops, the format will allow for extensive 
data/modeling discussions, as well as interactive access to the world wide 
web for presentation of initial results at the plenary sessions and the 
smaller splinter sessions.

	Below you will find a preliminary list of themes for the splinter 
sessions; comments and/or suggestions for additional or revised topics
are welcome. In the spirit of ISTP, we are particularly interested in 
sessions that address study of the Sun-Earth system in a global sense,
and sessions that involve collaborative analysis of data from multiple 
missions.



	PRELIMINARY LIST OF TOPICS FOR ISTP WORKSHOP, NOV 4-6, 1997

1. Comparative study of Sun-Earth connection events.  A number of space
weather events have been thoroughly covered by the ISTP Observatory, and
the resulting datasets allow quantitative evaluation
of similarities and differences and their significance in disturbing 
geospace.


2. Comparative studies of reconnection. The ISTP measurements and simulations 
allow quantitative comparisons of reconnection at the Sun, the subsolar 
magnetopause, the high-latitude cusp, and the magnetotail.


3. Quantitative comparison of the roles played by the ionosphere, low latitude 
boundary layer and high latitude boundary layer in populating the plasma sheet.



Please address comments, questions or suggestions by JULY 31, 1997 to one
of us at:

Mauricio Peredo
peredo at istp1.gsfc.naasa.gov

Nicola J. Fox
nicola.fox at gsfc.nasa.gov

Barbara Thompson
thompson at eitv3.nascom.nasa.gov




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