[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXVII, Issue 6

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXVII, Issue 6
Jan.23,2020

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COSPAR 2020 SPECIAL ISSUE

Table of Contents

1. 43rd Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly, Sydney, Australia, August 15-22, 2020

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. SPA-related Sessions in Commission B (Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System)

5. Other SPA-related Sessions

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


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43rd Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly, Sydney, Australia, August 15-22, 2020

From: COSPAR Secretariat (cosparcom at cosparhq.cnes.fr)

Submission of abstracts for the 43rd Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is underway.  COSPAR 2020 will bring together approximately 3000 scientists and engineers from the world over to present the latest results in 147 symposia covering all areas of space science.

Sydney, Australia
15 – 22 August 2020

Scientific program, abstract submission, etc.:
https://www.cospar-assembly.org

- Abstract deadline:  14 February 2020

Registration, accommodation and general information:
http://www.cospar2020.org/

- Early registration deadline:  16 May 2020

The program for distinguished interdisciplinary lectures is now available and may be consulted at:
https://www.cospar-assembly.org

We look forward to your participation in the 2020 COSPAR Scientific Assembly.


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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: W Kent Tobiska
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=851

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/session_cospar.php?session=852

C0.3	
Variabilities of Radio Wave Propagation Characteristics in Lower Ionosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Sudipta Sasmal
Deputy Organizer: Maxim Golubkov
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=853

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/session_cospar.php?session=854

C1.2	
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/session_cospar.php?session=855

C1.3	
Conditions for Enhanced Risk in Ionospheric Weather
Main Scientific Organizer: Feza Arikan
Deputy Organizer: Tamara Gulyaeva
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=856

C1.4	
CSES and Swarm Data Analysis of the Ionosphere Dynamics at Different Temporal and Spatial Scales
Main Scientific Organizer: Piero Diego
Deputy Organizer: Mirko Piersanti
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=857

C2.1	
The Physics and Dynamics of the Middle Atmosphere from Mid to High Latitudes
Main Scientific Organizer: Gerd Baumgarten
Deputy Organizer: Michael Gerding
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=858

C2.2	
Wave Coupling Processes and Consequences in the Whole Atmosphere and Ionosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Erdal Yiit
Deputy Organizer: Christopher Heale
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=859

C2.3	
Advances in External Forcing Studies for the Middle Atmosphere and Lower Ionosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Yvan Orsolini
Deputy Organizer: Alessandro Damiani
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=860

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/session_cospar.php?session=861

C3.1	
Planetary Atmospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Dmitrij Titov
Deputy Organizer: Larry W. Esposito
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=862

C3.2	
Planetary Upper Atmospheres, Ionospheres and Magnetospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Syed A. Haider
Deputy Organizer: Frederick Menk
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=863

C3.3	
Imaging the Planets in X-rays
Main Scientific Organizer: Michael Collier
Deputy Organizer: C. Philippe Escoubet
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=864

C4.1	
Improving the Description of Hemispheric Differences in Ionospheric Models
Main Scientific Organizer: David Altadill
Deputy Organizer: Dieter Bilitza
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=865

C4.2	
Development of Models Related to the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere and to ISO Standards for the Atmosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: David Reese
Deputy Organizer: W. Kent Tobiska
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=866

C4.3	
Venus International Reference Atmosphere, VIRA Update
Main Scientific Organizer: Ludmila Zasova
Deputy Organizer: Sanjay Limaye
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=867

C5.1	
Active Space Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: Björn Gustavsson
Deputy Organizer: Faiyang Fu
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=868

C5.2	
Dust Detection and Observation in Space and Laboratory Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: Jiri Pavlu
Deputy Organizer: Shengyi Ye
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=869


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


D1.1	
Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere and Beyond
Main Scientific Organizer: Stefan Ferreira
Deputy Organizer: Agnieszka Gil-widerska
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/sessioninfo.php?session=871

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/session_cospar.php?session=872

D1.3	
Pickup Ions in the Heliosphere and Beyond
Main Scientific Organizer: Nikolai Pogorelov
Deputy Organizer: Ming Zhang
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=873

D1.4	
Propagation of Solar Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Nina Dresing
Deputy Organizer: Du Toit Strauss
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=874

D2.1 / E3.1
Space Climate
Main Scientific Organizer: Kalevi Mursula
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=875

D2.2 / E3.2
Solar Probe and SolO
Main Scientific Organizer: Angelos Vourlidas
Deputy Organizer: Karl-Ludwig Klein
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=876

D2.3 / E3.3
Thermal and Dynamic Plasma Instabilities on Multiscales: From Laboratories to Planets, the Sun/Stars, Galaxies, and Beyond
Main Scientific Organizer: Patrick Antolin
Deputy Organizer: Wei Liu
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=877

D2.4 / E3.4
Sun-Heliosphere Connection Events: Origin, Propagation, Impact and Prediction
Main Scientific Organizer: Jie Zhang
Deputy Organizer: Miho Janvier, Manuela Temmer
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=878

D2.5 / E3.5
Nonthermal Particles in the Inner Heliosphere: Origin and Consequences
Main Scientific Organizer: Nat Gopalswamy
Deputy Organizer: Iver Cairns
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=879

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=880

D3.2	
Cross-scale Coupling and Multi-point Observations in the Magnetosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Katariina Nykyri
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=881

D3.3	
Non-thermal Distributions in Space Plasmas and their Role in Wave Generation, and Heating and Acceleration of Particles
Main Scientific Organizer: Gurbax Singh Lakhina
Deputy Organizer: Ioannis Kourakis
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=882

D3.4	
Plasma Transport across Magnetospheric Boundaries
Main Scientific Organizer: Zdenek Nemecek
Deputy Organizer: Steven Petrinec
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=883

D3.5	
Particle Acceleration and Loss in the Earth and Planetary Magnetospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Maria Usanova
Deputy Organizer: Yuri Shprits
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=884

D3.6	
Magnetotail Dynamics and Substorms during Storm and Non-storm Time
Main Scientific Organizer: Ian Mann
Deputy Organizer: Elena Grigorenko
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=885

D3.7	
Imaging of the Magnetosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Yaireska (Yari) Collado-Vega
Deputy Organizer: David Sibeck
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=886

D4.1	
Active Space Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: Björn Gustavsson
Deputy Organizer: Haiyang Fu
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=868

D4.2	
Dust Detection and Observation in Space and Laboratory Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: Jiri Pavlu
Deputy Organizer: Shengyi Ye
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=869


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SPA-related Sessions in Commission B (Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System)


B0.5	
Planetary Cubesats and Small Sats
Main Scientific Organizer: Pierre W. Bousquet
Deputy Organizer: John Baker
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=831

B0.6	
Planetary Instruments
Main Scientific Organizer: Justin Maki
Deputy Organizer: Oleg Korablev
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=832

B0.7	
Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061: Report to COSPAR and Discussion
Main Scientific Organizer: Michel Blanc
Deputy Organizer: Oleg Korablev
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=833

B1.3	
Results from the Exploration of the Kuiper Belt by NASA’s New Horizons Mission
Main Scientific Organizer: Alan Stern
Deputy Organizer: Dale Cruikshank
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=836

B3.1	
Lunar Science and Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Carle Pieters
Deputy Organizer: Bernard H. Foing
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=839

B4.1	
Mars Science Results
Main Scientific Organizer: Leslie Tamppari
Deputy Organizer: Oleg Korablev
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=841

B4.2	
Forward Planning of Exploration of Mars
Main Scientific Organizer: David Beaty
Deputy Organizer: Jorge Vage
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=842

B4.4	
Venus Science and Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Colin Wilson
Deputy Organizer: James A. Cutts
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=844

B4.5	
Mercury Science and Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Gabriele Cremonese
Deputy Organizer: Johannes Benkhoff
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=845

B5.1	
Juno at Jupiter
Main Scientific Organizer: Scott Bolton
Deputy Organizer: Steve Levin
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=846

B5.3	
Ocean Worlds
Main Scientific Organizer: Alexander Hayes
Deputy Organizer: Robert Pappalardo
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=848

B5.4	
Ice Giant Systems
Main Scientific Organizer: Leigh Fletcher
Deputy Organizer: Amy Simon
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=849


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Other SPA-related Sessions


E2.1	
Magnetic Flux Ropes in Solar and Stellar Environments
Main Scientific Organizer: Brigitte Schmieder
Deputy Organizer: Cristina H. Mandrini
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=907

E2.2	
Magnetic Structures of Solar Filaments
Main Scientific Organizer: P. F. Chen
Deputy Organizer: Guillaume Aulanier
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=908

E2.3	
Driving Solar Eruptions
Main Scientific Organizer: Yuhong Fan
Deputy Organizer: Piyali Chatterjee
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=909

E2.4	
New Views on the Solar Magnetic Atmosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Anna Malanushenko
Deputy Organizer: Silvano Fineschi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=910

PCB.2	
Small Satellites for Capacity Building
Main Scientific Organizer: Carlos Gabriel
Deputy Organizer: Amal Chandran
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=948

PRBEM.1	
Missions and Data Sets for Radiation Belt Modeling
Main Scientific Organizer: Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Deputy Organizer: Paul O’Brien
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=960

PRBEM.2	
Development of Global Physical, Empirical, and Data Assimilative Models of the Radiation Belt Environment
Main Scientific Organizer: Yuri Shprits
Deputy Organizer: Adam Kellerman
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=961

PRBEM.3	
Dedicated Tools for Radiation Belt Modeling and Data Processing: An Opportunity to Gather Efforts
Main Scientific Organizer: Vincent Maget
Deputy Organizer: Paul O’Brien
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=962

PSB.1	
Scientific Ballooning: Recent Developments in Technology and Instrumentation
Main Scientific Organizer: Tetsuya Yoshida
Deputy Organizer: Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=963

PSW.1	
Quantitative Assessment of Current and Emerging Space Weather Modelling Capabilities for Improved Space Weather Services
Main Scientific Organizer: Alexi Glover
Deputy Organizer: Maria Kuznetsova
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=965

PSW.2	
Planetary and Interplanetary Space Weather
Main Scientific Organizer: Manuel Grande
Deputy Organizer: Reka Winslow
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=966

PSW.3	
Nowcast and Forecast on Ionospheric Indices and Related Scales for Space Weather Services
Main Scientific Organizer: Norbert Jakowski
Deputy Organizer: Tim Fuller-Rowell
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=967

PSW.4	
Space Weather Information Architecture and Its Roles in Enhancing Data Access and Utilization
Main Scientific Organizer: Arnaud Masson
Deputy Organizer: Shing Fung
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=968

PSW.5	
International Space Weather Action Team - a Global Network of Research Teams Targeting Improvements of Resilience to Space Weather
Main Scientific Organizer: Maria Kuznetsova
Deputy Organizer: Mario M. Bisi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=969

PSW.6	
Global Coordination in Space Weather. Interfacing with User Groups
Main Scientific Organizer: Ian Mann
Deputy Organizer: Hermann Opgenoortn
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=970

PSW.7	
Hands-on Education in Space Weather
Event Description: now available
Main Scientific Organizer: Dibyendu Nandi
Deputy Organizer: Alexi Glover, Nat Gopalswamy
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=971

S.2	
Deep Space Science Enabled by Daughter Nanosats
Main Scientific Organizer: Steven E. Matousek
Deputy Organizer: Pierre W. Bousquet
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=973


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