<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f36d3df4-7fff-7918-c3ef-ed152d0bfb1a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We're pleased to announce our session for </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xazXCnx1jniXyg5qqC9Mnje?domain=agu.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AGU2023</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MR013. Mantle Properties and Processes: Integrating laboratory, geological, geochemical, and geophysical datasets </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aodICoV1kpfDo54LLizHavA?domain=agu.confex.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/prelim.cgi/Session/185187</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> .</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  We are cross-listed between DI (Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior), MR (Mineral and Rock Physics), S (Seismology), and T (Tectonophysics), and we aim to attract solid-earth scientists from all specialties aiming to investigate Earth’s mantle.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Invited presenters Juliane Dannberg from University of Florida and Samer Naif from Georgia Tech will talk about new modeling and resistivity studies. We invite all research focused on integrating new datasets to constrain mantle properties and/or elucidate mantle processes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session description:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3-D variations in mantle temperature, density, viscosity, and composition are necessary to accurately model global tectonics. Recent improvements in geophysical datasets and advances in imaging techniques have provided unprecedented resolution of Earth's mantle wave speed, anisotropy, attenuation, resistivity, and density. Still, ambiguity exists in interpretation of mantle parameters such as temperature, grain size, viscosity, and melt/volatile content, which influence and/or record geologic processes. Recent laboratory experiments and field observations probe grain-scale properties to quantify their influence on geophysical observables, providing the framework to connect geophysical observations to the underlying physical processes. Extrapolation of laboratory-derived constraints to Earth conditions is associated with uncertainties, and comparison of predictions against geophysical observables is necessary to evaluate model success. We welcome contributions from all solid-earth fields including seismology, geophysics, geochemistry, and geology that integrate or compare laboratory and field-based constraints with geophysical observations to quantify mantle properties and processes. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to learning more about your work in December!</span></p><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conveners: William Shinevar (CU Boulder</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">); Esther James (Harvard); Joshua Russell (Syracuse); Hatsuki Yamauchi (LDEO)</span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:normal">Esther K. James, Ph.D.<br>Department Preceptor</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xV2kCp81lrt9lqDNNcYjivV?domain=eps.harvard.edu/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Earth and Planetary Sciences</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> | Harvard University</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">24 Oxford Street, Rm 101a, Cambridge, MA 02138</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:normal">Email: <a href="mailto:estherkjames@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">estherkjames@fas.harvard.edu</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:normal">Pronouns: she/her/hers</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>