<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>======*=======*========*========*==========*========*=======<br><div> </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b>The 2013-2022 NRC Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b>New England Regional Town Hall Meeting </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b>Friday October 8, 2010 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">In conjunction with a meeting of the New England Space Science Consortium </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">UNH/Holloway Commons(*), Durham, NH </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">The New England Community members of the National Research Council (NRC) Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics and organizers of the New England Space Science Consortium (NESSC) invite your participation at a community meeting to learn more about the recently initiated Decadal Survey. We will gather community advice and solicit ideas for this vital activity in setting our Nation’s priorities for Solar and Space Science in the next decade. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">We are particularly interested in communicating information about the importance and value that will be placed on the community input in the form of “concept papers,” (e.g., mission, observation, theory, or modeling activity) that identifies and motivates one or more new or existing science or societal objectives and promises to advance the scientific objectives, contribute to fundamental understanding of the Sun-Earth/planetary system, and/or facilitate the connection between science and societal needs (e.g., improvements in space weather prediction). Details on how to submit a paper are on the NRC website. Responses are due by November 12, 2010. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">Information about the Decadal Survey can be found at <span style="color: #1738f5"><a href="http://www.nas.edu/ssb">www.nas.edu/ssb</a> </span>(click on “A Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics”) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">We look forward to meeting with you, and please spread the word about this meeting to your solar and space physics colleagues. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">For further information, please feel free to contact our local New England region NRC Decadal Survey and NESSC representatives: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b>New England region members of the NRC Decadal Steering Committee: </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">Harlan Spence (UNH) and liaison to Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interactions Panel </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">Justin Kasper (Harvard/CfA) and liaison to Solar Heliosphere Panel </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">Mary Hudson (Dartmouth College) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; "><b>New England Space Science Consortium Organizer (<a href="http://nessc.unh.edu">http://nessc.unh.edu</a>): </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Cambria; ">Nathan Schwadron (UNH) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Cambria; "><i><br></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Cambria; "><i>(*) We will meet in the Piscataqua Room at Holloway Commons, located on Main Street ~10 minutes walking distance east from the train depot and the main visitor parking lot. A UNH campus map is located here: <a href="http://www.unh.edu/ecd/images/CP/croppedmap_07-2010.pdf">http://www.unh.edu/ecd/images/CP/croppedmap_07-2010.pdf</a>. </i></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>