[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 4

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 4
January 24, 2016

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
Distribution Support: Sharon Uy, Todd King, Kevin Addison
Email: editor at igpp.ucla.edu       

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AOGS 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE (ABSTRACTS DUE FEBRUARY 19)

Table of Contents

1.	AOGS 2016: General Information
2.	Solar & Terrestrial (ST) Sciences Sessions
3.	Other SPA-related Sessions

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AOGS 2016: General Information

AOGS 13th Annual Meeting
31 Jul to 5 Aug, 2016
Beijing, China

Meeting website:
http://asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=home.htm

Abstract submission deadline: February 19, 2016

Please visit http://asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm for detailed instructions of online abstract submission. Each submitting author cannot submit more than two abstracts.

Below are the SPA-related sessions at AOGS 2016 that are open for abstract submissions. Because of the large number of sessions, we urge readers to find detailed session descriptions online by following the web link at the end of each list.

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Solar & Terrestrial (ST) Sciences Sessions

ST01. Energetic Particle Acceleration And Transport In The Geospace And Interplanetary Space
Conveners: Linghua Wang, Gang Li, Yoshizumi Miyoshi

ST02. Inner Magnetospheric Dynamics
Conveners: Qiugang Zong, Yusuke Ebihara, Mei-Ching Fok

ST03. Magnetospheric Response to Transient Solar Wind Phenomena
Conveners: Hui Zhang, Qiugang Zong, Guan Le

ST04. Turbulence And Particle Energization
Conveners: Gary Zank, Linghua Wang

ST05. Particle Acceleration And Transport Associated With Gradual And Impulsive Solar Energetic Particle Events
Conveners: Gary Zank, Gang Li, Gang Qin

ST06. Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Dynamics
Conveners: Z. H. Yao, Jiang Liu, Zuyin Pu, Kyle Murphy

ST07. Diagnosing Solar Flares Through UV Spectroscopy And Imaging
Conveners: Hui Tian, Shinsuke Imada, Abhishek K. Srivastava, David Graham 

ST08. Magnetic Reconnection In The Partially Ionized Lower Solar Atmosphere
Conveners: Hui Tian, Yukio Katsukawa, Lei Ni, Brigitte Schmieder

ST09. Structures And Dynamics Of Inner/outer Frontiers Of Magnetized /Unmagnetized Planets
Conveners: Bertrand Lembege, Gurbax Lakhina, Hiroshi Hasegawa

ST10. Coupling Of Phenomena In Earth’s Magnetotail And Outer Magnetosphere
Conveners: Anthony Lui, Zuyin Pu, Qiugang Zong

ST11. Wave-particle Interactions In The Inner Magnetosphere
Conveners: Xin Tao, Yuto Katoh, Lei Dai, Kyung-Chan Kim

ST12. Radiation Belt Physics In The Sun-Earth Connection Context
Conveners: Binbin Ni, Qiugang Zong, Fuliang Xiao, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Jun Liang

ST14. General Session on the Magnetosphere
Conveners: Masahito Nose, Nanan Balan

ST15. Large-scale Transient Process at Boundary Layers of the Magnetosphere
Conveners: Alexei Dmitriev, David Sibeck

ST16. Search For Precursors Of Extreme Solar Events; Global Models Of The Disturbed Environment In Leo; Related Risk Assessment/risk Mitigation
Conveners: Susan Mckenna-Lawlor, Lawrence Townsend, Aiko Nagamatsu, Anil Bhardwaj, Yinghui Li

ST17. Ionosphere And Thermosphere Dynamics And Coupling
Conveners: Shunrong Zhang, Liu Libo, Yongliang Zhang, Jiuhou Lei, Huixin Liu

ST18. General Session for Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere
Conveners: *Dr. Zahra Bouya (Space Weather Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology , Australia) z.bouya at ips.gov.au
Dr. Biqiang Zhao (Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) zbqjz at mail.iggcas.ac.cn

ST19. Radio Heliophysics and Space Weather
Conveners: Mario Bisi, T. Oyuki Chang M.

ST20. Sun and Heliosphere General Session Including Solar Diagnostic Techniques and Variabilty, and Helioseismology
Conveners: Mario Bisi, Alessandra Giunta

ST21. Dynamical Processes in the High-latitude Ionosphere and Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling
Conveners: Qinghe Zhang, Kjellmar Oksavik, Yongliang Zhang

ST22. Observations And Models Of Shocks In Collisionless Space Plasmas
Conveners: George Parks, Suiyan Fu

ST23. Cross-scale Coupling Physics In The Tail-inner Magnetosphere
Conveners: Yiqun Yu, Jinbin Cao, Vania Jordanova, Colby Lemon, Jichun Zhang 

ST24. Formation, Evolution and Instability of Magnetic Flux Ropes
Conveners: Yuming Wang, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Bernhard Kliem, Qiang Hu

ST25. Space Weather Impact On The Ionosphere And Dependent Technologies
Conveners: Frederick Menk, Sushil Kumar, Duggirala Pallamraju, Brett Carter

ST26. Multiwavelength And In-situ Observations Of Cme And Flare Evolution And Dynamics
Conveners: Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Hazel Bain, David Sundkvist

ST27. New Insights Into The Physics Of White-light Flares
Conveners: Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Lucia Kleint, Hugh Hudson, Ming-De Ding

ST28. Observation, Theory and Modeling of ULF, ELF and VLF Waves in Geospace
Conveners: Masahito Nose, Yonghua Liu, Frederick Menk, Kazue Takahashi

ST29. Gnss For Ionospheric Applications
Conveners: Jiuhou Lei, Xinan Yue, Kefei Zhang

ST32. Response Of High Energy Protons In The Inner Radiation Belt During Geomagnetic Storms
Conveners: Zou Hong, Qiugang Zong, George Parks, Zuyin Pu, Lun Xie

ST33. Kinetic Alfven Waves In Solar And Heliospheric Plasmas
Conveners: De-Jin Wu, Bo Li, Jiansen He

ST34. Solar Magnetic Field, Helicity And Solar Eruptions
Conveners: Haiqing Xu, Jiangtao Su, Shangbin Yang

ST35. Solar-terrestrial Environment Indices: Toward Integrated Sciences For Space Weather And Space Climate Prediction
Conveners: Akiko Fujimoto, Yuki Kubo, Richard Marshall, Toshihiko Iyemori

ST36. Global Solar Wind - Planetary Environment Interactions: A Comparative View Of Recent Observations, Modeling And Numerical Simulations
Conveners: Dongsheng Cai, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Bertrand Lembege

ST37. Formation, Oscillations And Waves Of Solar Filaments
Conveners: Peng-Fei Chen, Marcel Goossens, Qing-Min Zhang

ST38. Future And Current Space Missions And Instrumentation For Space And Planetary Science
Conveners: Takeshi Sakanoi, Andrew Yau

ST39. Special Session - Progress Of Solar Terrestrial Sciences And Impacts Of Solar Activity On The St System Including Climate And Weather
Conveners: Nanan Balan, Nat Gopalswamy, Yuichi Otsuka, Leif Svalgaard, Yohsuke Kamide

ST40. Sun-Earth system response to extreme solar and seismic events
Conveners: Katsumi Hattori, Nanan Balan, Sreeja Vadakke Veettil, Koichiro Oyama, Yusuke Ebihara

ST41. Equatorial and Middle Latitude Ionospheric Phenomena and their Relation with Manetosphere/Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Conveners: Maxim Klimenko, Biqiang Zhao, Paulo Fagundes

ST42. History And Development Of Solar Terrestrial Sciences
Conveners: Nanan Balan, Yohsuke Kamide, Leif Svalgaard

ST Sessions website:
http://asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=sessionList.htm
(and click the link for ST Section)

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Other SPA-related Sessions

AS25. Experimental And Theoretical Investigations On The Electrodynamic Coupling Between Troposphere And Near-earth Environment
Conveners: Cheng-Liing Kuo, Tai-Yin Huang, Gaopeng Lu, Xianghui Xue
http://www.meetmatt-svr3.net/aogs/aogs2016/mars2/confSessionView.asp?sID=38

PS05. Solar Wind Interaction With Planetary Environments
Conveners: Dominique Delcourt, Kanako Seki, Robert Lillis, Yasumasa Kasaba, Pontus Brandt
http://www.meetmatt-svr3.net/aogs/aogs2016/mars2/confSessionView.asp?sID=5

PS17. Future Space Missions And Instrumentation For Space And Planetary Science
Conveners: Yoshifumi Saito, Anil Bhardwaj, Jongho Seon
http://www.meetmatt-svr3.net/aogs/aogs2016/mars2/confSessionView.asp?sID=17

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