<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Although Ed's plea to talk to larger communities has some merit,</div><div>it is really the smaller focused workshops that allow for in-depth</div><div>discussions that hardly take place in huge meetings (like SPD, AGU, COSPAR, etc).</div><div>There is just too much on the table at big meetings, so that we get lost</div><div>in superficial discussions and parallel sessions. I think we need both.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 9, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Ed Deluca wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Allow me to present a contrarian point of view.<br><br>As initially conceived the loops workshops were committed to<br>solving a while defined, but complex science problem:<br>"What are the physical processes that define the structure<br>and evolution of coronal loops"<br><br>Three years of observations with STEREO and Hinode (in<br>addition to continued supporting observations from SOHO,<br>TRACE and RHESSI) have provided critical observations,<br>models have evolved and great progress is being made.<br><br>Given this, why are we not planning on closing down the<br>Loops Workshops, declaring victory and going home?<br><br>There is a real danger in continuing to isolate the "loops<br>community" from the solar/heliospheric community.<br>We have seen this in the past with the heliosiesmology,<br>they spent decades talking to themselves rather then<br>engaging with the rest of the community. So I would<br>suggest the the Mallorca meeting be the final<br>loops workshop and that scientists reintegrate themselves<br>into the solar community.<br><br>With respect,<br></div></blockquote>Ed</div><br><div>
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