[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER Volume XXIV, Issue 72

Wed Dec 27 19:54:16 PST 2017

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIV, Issue 72
Dec.27,2017

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Special Issue: 2018 COSPAR Meeting

Table of Contents

1. 42nd Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-22, 2018

2. List of Sessions in Commission C (Space Studies of the Upper Atmosphere of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres)

3. List of Sessions in Commission D (Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres)

4. List of Other SPA-related Sessions

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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g

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42nd Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-22, 2018

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) will hold its 42nd Scientific Assembly at the Pasadena Convention Center and the Hilton hotel in Pasadena, California, USA, on 14-22 July, 2018. The COSPAR Scientific Assemblies supply a forum to all scientists involved in space research for the presentation of their latest scientific results, the exchange of knowledge and also the discussion of space research problems.

The main COSPAR site for the meeting is: 
http://cospar2018.org

Abstract Submission Website: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/

Important Dates:
* February 9, 2018: Abstract Submission Deadline
* April 27, 2018: Early Registration Deadline

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List of Sessions in Commission C (Space Studies of the Upper Atmosphere of the Earth and Planets including Reference Atmospheres)

C0.1	
International Standards on Space Environment from ISO
Main Scientific Organizer: Vladimir Kalegaev
Deputy Organizer: Yukihito Kitazawa
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=690

C0.2	
Advances in Remote Sensing of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere from Ground and from Space, including Sounding Rockets and Multi-Instrument Studies
Main Scientific Organizer: David Rees
Deputy Organizer: Mamoru Yamamoto
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=691

C0.3	
Ionospheric Disturbances Observed through very Low Frequency Radio Waves
Main Scientific Organizer: Sudipta Sasmal
Deputy Organizer: Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=692

C1.1	
Recent Advances in Equatorial, Low- and Mid-Latitude Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere Studies
Main Scientific Organizer: Paulo Roberto Fagundes
Deputy Organizer: Libo Liu
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=693

C1.2	
Recent Advances in the Thermospheric-Ionospheric-Geospheric Research (TIGER) Program
Main Scientific Organizer: Ludger Scherliess
Deputy Organizer: Francis G. Eparvier
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=694

C1.3	
The Coupled Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System and the Impact of Solar and Geomagnetic Storms on Geospace
Main Scientific Organizer: Andrew W. Yau
Deputy Organizer: Roger Varney
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=695

C1.4	
The Regions of Enhanced Risk for Ionospheric Weather
Main Scientific Organizer: Feza Arikan
Deputy Organizer: Attila Komjathy
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=696

C1.5	
New Satellite Missions for Thermosphere-Ionosphere Studies and Sciences Performed by Observations, Modeling and Data Assimilation
Main Scientific Organizer: Alan Burns
Deputy Organizer: Nicholas Pedatella
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=697

C2.1	
Physics, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region
Main Scientific Organizer: Gerd Baumgarten
Deputy Organizer: Irina Strelnikova
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=698

C2.2	
Wave Coupling Processes and Consequences in the Whole Atmosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Erdal Yiit
Deputy Organizer: Jens Oberheide
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=699

C2.3	
Advances in External Forcing Studies for the Middle Atmosphere and Lower Ionosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Yvan Orsolini
Deputy Organizer: Alexei A. Krivolutsky
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=700

C2.4	
Small Satellite Missions for Aeronomy and Ionosphere Studies
Main Scientific Organizer: Amal Chandran
Deputy Organizer: Loren Chang
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=701

C3.1	
Planetary Atmospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Dmitrij Titov
Deputy Organizer: Larry W. Esposito
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=702

C3.2	
Planetary Upper Atmospheres, Ionospheres, and Magnetospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Stephen Bougher
Deputy Organizer: Anil Bhardwaj
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=703

C4.1	
Improved Description of the Ionosphere through Data Assimilation
Main Scientific Organizer: Dieter Bilitza
Deputy Organizer: David Altadill
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=705

C4.2	
Development of Models Related to the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere (CIRA) and to ISO Standards for the Atmosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: David Rees
Deputy Organizer: W Kent Tobiska
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=706

C4.3	
Mars and Venus Atmosphere and Ionosphere Reference Datasets
Main Scientific Organizer: Ludmila Zasova
Deputy Organizer: Ehouarn Millour
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=806

C5.1	
Active Space Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: James Sheerin
Deputy Organizer: Robert Moore
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=707

C5.2	
Dusty Plasmas and Dust-Plasma Processes in Space
Main Scientific Organizer: Jiri Pavlu
Deputy Organizer: Ingrid Mann
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=708

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List of Sessions in Commission D (Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres)

D1.1	
Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and in the Interstellar Medium: Acceleration, Anisotropy and Anomalous Transport
Main Scientific Organizer: Gaetano Zimbardo
Deputy Organizer: Frederic Effenberger
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=710

D1.2	
Large-Scale Heliospheric Structure: Theory, Modelling, and Data
Main Scientific Organizer: Jens Kleimann
Deputy Organizer: John Richardson
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=711

D1.3	
Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and beyond: from Pickup Ions to Cosmic Rays
Main Scientific Organizer: Ming Zhang
Deputy Organizer: Stefan Ferreira
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=712

D2.1	
Coordinated Observations and Modeling of Accelerated Particles at the Sun and in the Inner Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Nicole Vilmer
Deputy Organizer: Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=713

D2.2	
Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona (Prominences and Coronal Rain) and Non-solar Analogs
Main Scientific Organizer: Wei Liu
Deputy Organizer: Patrick Antolin
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=714

D2.3	
Solar Transients: From Solar Origin to Earth Impact and the Outer Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Jie Zhang
Deputy Organizer: Sergio Dasso
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=715

D2.4	
Space Climate
Main Scientific Organizer: Ilya Usoskin
Deputy Organizer: Dibyendu Nandi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=716

D3.1	
Highlights of Magnetospheric Plasma Physics
Main Scientific Organizer: Michael A. Balikhin
Deputy Organizer: Lev Zelenyi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=717

D3.2	
Cross-Scale Coupling and Multipoint Observations in the Magnetosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: C. Philippe Escoubet
Deputy Organizer: Gurbax Singh Lakhina
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=718

D3.3	
Role of Nonthermal Distributions in Wave Generation, Particle Heating and Acceleration in Space Plasmas
Main Scientific Organizer: Gurbax Singh Lakhina
Deputy Organizer: Mouloud Tribeche
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=719

D3.4	
Plasma Transport and Heating Across Boundary Layers
Main Scientific Organizer: Zdenek Nemecek
Deputy Organizer: Katariina Nykyri, Steven Petrinec
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=720

D3.5	
Particle Acceleration and Loss in the Earth and Planetary Magnetospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Yuri Shprits
Deputy Organizer: Maria Usanova
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=721

D3.6	
Magnetotail Dynamics and Substorms during Storm and Non-storm Time
Main Scientific Organizer: Elena Grigorenko
Deputy Organizer: Ian Mann
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=722

D4.1	
Active Space Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: James Sheerin
Deputy Organizer: Robert Moore
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=800

D4.2	
Dusty Plasmas and Dust-Plasma Processes in Space
Main Scientific Organizer: Jiri Pavlu
Deputy Organizer: Ingrid Mann
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=801

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List of Other SPA-related Sessions

E2.1	
Formation, Destabilisation, and Ejection of Magnetic Structures in Solar and Stellar Coronae
Main Scientific Organizer: Brigitte Schmieder
Deputy Organizer: Yuhong Fan
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=740

E2.2	
Solar and Stellar Flares: Multi-wavelength Oberservations and Simulations
Main Scientific Organizer: Louise K. Harra
Deputy Organizer: Petr Heinzel
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=741

E2.3	
Solar Magnetism: Data-Driven Modeling and Requirements for Future Instrumentation
Main Scientific Organizer: Sarah Gibson
Deputy Organizer: Silvano Fineschi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=742

E3.1	
Coordinated Observations and Modeling of Accelerated Particles at the Sun and in the Inner Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Nicole Vilmer
Deputy Organizer: Robert Wimmer-Schwingruber
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=802

E3.2	
Cool Material in the Hot Solar Corona (Prominences and Coronal Rain) and Non-solar Analogs
Main Scientific Organizer: Wei Liu
Deputy Organizer: Patrick Antolin
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=803

E3.3	
Solar Transients: From Solar Origin to Earth Impact and the Outer Helioshere
Main Scientific Organizer: Jie Zhang
Deputy Organizer: Sergio Dasso
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=804

E3.4	
Space Climate
Main Scientific Organizer: Ilya Usoskin
Deputy Organizer: Dibyendu Nandi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=805

PRBEM.1	
Development of Physics-based, Empirical, and Data Assimilative Models of the Radiation Environment
Main Scientific Organizer:	Yuri Shprits
Deputy Organizer: Vincent Maget
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=788

PRBEM.2	
Recent and Upcoming Observations of the Radiation Belts
Main Scientific Organizer: Adam Kellermann
Deputy Organizer: Paul O'Brien
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=789

PSW.1	
Metrics and Validation Needs for Space Weather Models and Services
Main Scientific Organizer:	Alexi Glover
Deputy Organizer: Maria Kuznetsova, Terrance Onsager
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=792

PSW.2	
Solar System Space Weather
Main Scientific Organizer: Manuel Grande
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=793

PSW.3	
>From Ionospheric Indices towards Standardised Activity Scales for Space Weather Services
Main Scientific Organizer: Norbert Jakowski
Deputy Organizer: Michael Terkildsen
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=794

PSW.4	
Interoperability of Space Weather Data Models, Data Holdings and Data Access Tools
Main Scientific Organizer: Daniel Heynderickx
Deputy Organizer: Ralf Keil
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=795

PSW.5	
Space Weather Initiatives and Coordinated International Efforts to implement COSPAR-ILWS Roadmap Recommendations
Main Scientific Organizer: Maria Kuznetsova
Deputy Organizer: Dibyendu Nandi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=796

S.1
CSES Preliminary Results on Ionospheric Variability and Its Connection with Seismic Activity and Solar Forcing
Main Scientific Organizer: Piero Diego
Deputy Organizer: Xuhui Shen
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=797

S.2	
Planetary Data Management and Exploitation
Main Scientific Organizer: Thomas Stein
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=807

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