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

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXXI, Issue 6
Jan.27,2024

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SPECIAL ISSUE: COSPAR 2024 MEETING
(Abstracts Due February 9)

Table of Contents

1. COSPAR 2024 Scientific Assembly, Busan, Korea, July 13-21, 2024

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

4. List of Sessions in Space Weather Panel

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

6. Other SPA-related Sessions

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


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COSPAR 2024 Scientific Assembly, Busan, Korea, July 13-21, 2024


45th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly
Date: July 13-21, 2024
Venue: BEXCO, Busan, Republic of Korea

COSPAR, under the umbrella of International Council for Science, is currently with 13 international scientific unions, 46 national committees as well as over 10,000 associates. Every assembly attracts around ~3000 from all over the world.

Note: COSPAR 2024 will take place only in person to enhance networking opportunities and to significantly improve focus and engagement.

Abstract deadline: February 9, 2024
Early registration deadline:  May 3, 2024

Meeting websites:
* Registration, accommodation, and general information: https://www.cospar2024.org/
* Abstract submission, scientific programs: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/assembly.php
* Call for abstracts (e-book): 
https://issuu.com/cosparspaceresearchtoday/docs/call_for_abstracts_2024?fr=xKAE9_--7p0I-Q3UKO08S_nFuHIsKbiwMwc8CAwrBJjsWBuEKwf8EMjAyM8H_AjA4wf5JpSYmyP8DU1JUyItAyBYGOgZuO1RKOUN1CjtPEv5xbhyLCm4sDMHPAgMKwSY7FgbhCsH_BDIwMjPB_wIwOMH-SaUmJsha6P5rOnPbGG47VFAB


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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 for Space Environment
Main Scientific Organizer: W Kent Tobiska
Deputy Organizer: Yukihito Kitazawa
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1202

C0.2	
Advances in Remote Sensing of the Middle and Upper Atmospheres and Ionosphere from the Ground and from Space, including Sounding Rockets, Novel Radar and Multi-instrument Studies
Main Scientific Organizer: David Rees
Deputy Organizer: Michael Kosch
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1203

C1.1	
Recent Advances in Equatorial, Low- and Mid-Latitude Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Ionosphere Studies
Main Scientific Organizer: Paulo Roberto Fagundes
Deputy Organizer: Venkatesh Kavutarapu
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1204

C1.2	
Coupling Processes of the Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere System in the Formation of Various Auroras
Main Scientific Organizer: Geonhwa Jee
Deputy Organizer: Wenbin Wang
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1205

C1.3	
Atmospheric and Ionospheric Perturbations at Low, Mid, and High Latitudes from Known Sources
Main Scientific Organizer: Young-Sil Kwak
Deputy Organizer: Hyosub Kil
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1206

C1.4	
Space Weather and Earth's Atmosphere-Ionosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Nicholas Pedatella
Deputy Organizer: Loren Chang
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1207

C2.1	
Gravity Waves and Turbulence in the Middle Atmosphere and Lower Ionosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Robin Wing
Deputy Organizer: Boris Streinikov
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1208

C3.1	
Planetary Atmospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Hilary L. Justh
Deputy Organizer: Larry W. Esposito
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1209

C3.2	
Planetary Upper Atmospheres, Ionospheres and Magnetospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Syed A. Haider
Deputy Organizer: Takeshi Kuroda
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1210

C4.1	
International Reference Ionosphere: Improvements, Validation, and Applications
Main Scientific Organizer: Dieter Belitza
Deputy Organizer: Young-Sil Kwak
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1211

C4.2	
Development of first-principles and empirical models related to the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Sean Bruinsma
Deputy Organizer: Marcin Pilinski
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1212

C5.1	
Dust Observations in Space and Laboratory Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: Jiri Pavlu
Deputy Organizer: Ingrid Mann
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1213


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List of Sessions in Commission D (Space Plasmas in the Solar System, including Planetary Magnetospheres) and SPA-related Sessions in Commission E (Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System)


D0.1	
Overview Session Commission D
Main Scientific Organizer: Nicole Vilmer
Deputy Organizer: Agnieszka Gil
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1214

D1.1	
Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere, the Interstellar Medium, and Astrospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Agnieszka Gil
Deputy Organizer: Nicholas Eugene Engelbrecht
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1215

D1.2	
Large Scale Structure of Heliosphere and its Physical Drivers
Main Scientific Organizer: Merav Opher
Deputy Organizer: Konstantinos Dialynas
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1216

D1.3	
Magneto-plasma Structures, Streams and Flows in the Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Olga Khabarova
Deputy Organizer: Olga Malandraki
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1217

D1.4	
Suprathermal and Pickup Ions Throughout the Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Matthew Hill 
Deputy Organizer: Konstantinos Kialynas
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1218

D1.5	
Turbulence in the Heliosphere from the Solar Corona to the Very Local Interstellar Medium
Main Scientific Organizer: Federico Fraternale
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1219

D1.6	
Understanding and Predicting Solar Energetic Particle Events Across the Heliosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Nicolas Wijsen
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1220

D1.7	
Science from Neutron Monitors, Muon Telescopes, and other Detectors of Atmospheric Showers from GeV Cosmic Rays
Main Scientific Organizer: David Ruffolo
Deputy Organizer: Kazuoki Munakata
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1221

D2.1 / E3.1	
Off-the-Sun-Earth-Line(OSEL) Missions
Main Scientific Organizer: Nat Golpalswamy
Deputy Organizer: Kyungsuk Cho
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1222

D2.2 / E3.2
Heliospheric Variability, its Solar Sources and Impacts on Solar System Objects
Main Scientific Organizer: Mateja Dumbovic
Deputy Organizer: Miho Janvier
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1223

D2.3 / E3.3
Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Plasmas - From the Sun through the Heliosphere to Stars and Galaxies
Main Scientific Organizer: Jorg Buchner
Deputy Organizer: Masahiro Hoshino
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1224

D2.4 / E3.4
STEREO’s Journey around the Sun: An Era of Single and Multi-spacecraft Observations from 2007 to 2024
Main Scientific Organizer: Noe Lugaz
Deputy Organizer: Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1225

D2.5 / E3.5
Impact of the Inhomogeneous Solar Corona and Solar wind on CME Evolution
Main Scientific Organizer: Soojeong Jang
Deputy Organizer: Meng Jin
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1226

D3.1	
Highlights of Magnetospheric Plasma Physics
Main Scientific Organizer: Katariina Nykyri
Deputy Organizer: Lev Zelenyi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1227

D3.2	
Cross-scale Coupling and Multi-point Observations in the Solar Wind and Magnetosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Marina Stepanova
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1228

D3.3	
Origin of Non-thermal Distributions in Space Plasmas and their Role in Wave Generation and Heating / Acceleration of Particles
Main Scientific Organizer: Ioannis Kourakis
Deputy Organizer: Gurbax Singh Lakhina
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1229

D3.4	
Particle Transport Acceleration and Loss in the Earth and Planetary Magnetospheres
Main Scientific Organizer: Kyung-Chan Kim
Deputy Organizer: Maria Usanova
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1230

D3.5	
Role of Mesoscale Coupling as the Driver of System Level Storm and Substorm Dynamics in Geospace
Main Scientific Organizer: Elena Grigorenko
Deputy Organizer: Matina Gkioulidou
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1231

D3.6	
CubeSat and Small Satellite Technology Addressing Magnetospheric Challenges
Main Scientific Organizer: Jaejin Lee
Deputy Organizer: Kyoung-Joo Hwang
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1232

D3.7	
Machine Learning and Data Sciences
Main Scientific Organizer: Yuri Shprits
Deputy Organizer: Georgios Balasis, Simon Wing
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1233

D3.8	
Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions
Main Scientific Organizer: Qiugang Zong
Deputy Organizer: Dong-Hun Lee
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1234

D4.1	
Dust Observations in Space and Laboratory Experiments
Main Scientific Organizer: Jiri Pavlu
Deputy Organizer: Ingrid Mann
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1213

E2.1	
Energetics and dynamics in the quiet solar atmosphere and beyond
Main Scientific Organizer: Zhenghua Huang
Deputy Organizer: Maria Madjarska-Theissen
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1255

E2.2	
Energy and mass transport of small scales in the low solar atmosphere
Main Scientific Organizer: Eun-Kyung Lim
Deputy Organizer: Bart De Pontieu
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1256

E2.3	
Plasma and Magnetic Field Coupling in Solar Prominences
Main Scientific Organizer: Stanislav Gunar
Deputy Organizer: Brigitte Schmieder
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1257

E2.4	
Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Main Scientific Organizer: Iulia Chifu
Deputy Organizer: Ricardo Gafeira
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1258

E2.5	
Waves in the Solar Atmosphere, from the Photosphere to the Corona and Solar Wind
Main Scientific Organizer: Tom van Doorsselaere
Deputy Organizer: Bo Li
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1259

E2.6	
Developments and Applications of the Solar Magnetic Field Modelling
Main Scientific Organizer: Xiaoshuai Zhu
Deputy Organizer: Jie Zhao
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1260

E2.7	
Waves and Flows in Solar Coronal Active Regions, from Heating to Coronal Seismology
Main Scientific Organizer: Leon Ofman
Deputy Organizer: Dong-Hun Lee
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1261


4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4

List of Sessions in Space Weather Panel


PSW.1	
Parameterising Performance Assessment within the Space Weather Domain: Validation and Verification at Different Stages in the R2O2R Process
Main Scientific Organizer: Alexi Glover
Deputy Organizer: Maria Kuznetsova
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1313

PSW.2	
Space Weather at Planetary Bodies in the Solar System
Main Scientific Organizer: Zhonghua Yao
Deputy Organizer: Insoo Jun
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1314

PSW.3	
Preparation for a New Ionospheric Space Weather Scale for Trans-ionospheric Radio wave Propagation
Main Scientific Organizer: Norbert Jakowski
Deputy Organizer: Tim Fuller-Rowell
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1315

PSW.4	
Information Architecture and Innovative Solutions in Space Weather. Interfacing and Coordination between Different Efforts on Standardization
Main Scientific Organizer: Arnaud Masson
Deputy Organizer: Shing Fung, Vladimir Kalegaev
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1316

PSW.5	
Community-Driven COSPAR Space Weather Roadmap
Main Scientific Organizer: Maria Kuznetsova
Deputy Organizer: Mario M. Bisi
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1317

PSW.6	
Improving Predictive Capabilities of Radiation Environment in Support of Human Exploration and Robotic Missions
Main Scientific Organizer: Kathryn Whitman
Deputy Organizer: Insoo Jun
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1318

PSW.7	
International Space Weather Cooperation
Main Scientific Organizer: Kichang Yoon
Deputy Organizer: Mamoru Ishii
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1319

PSW.8	
The Geomagnetic Environment Leading to GIC Impacts on Power-infrastructure
Main Scientific Organizer: Hermann Opgenoorth
Deputy Organizer: Jennifer Gannon
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1320

PSW.9	
International Space Weather Missions and Coordination: Current and Planned Missions
Main Scientific Organizer: Juha-Pekka Luntama
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1321

PSW.10	
Radio Observations for Space Weather
Main Scientific Organizer: Mario M. Bisi
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1322


5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

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


B0.2	
Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Fabrizio Dirri
Deputy Organizer: M. Shanmugam
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1185

B3.1	
Lunar Science and Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Magha Bhatt
Deputy Organizer: Bernard H. Foing
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1190

B4.1	
Mercury Science and Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Johannes Benkhoff
Deputy Organizer: Go Murakami
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1193

B4.2	
Venus Science and Exploration
Main Scientific Organizer: Yeon Joo Lee
Deputy Organizer: Colin Wilson
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1194

B4.3	
Mars Science Results
Main Scientific Organizer: Elliot Sefton-Nash
Deputy Organizer: Michael Meyer
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1195

B5.1	
Jupiter, the Galilean Satellites, Rings and Magnetospheres: Juno Results
Main Scientific Organizer: Scott Bolton
Deputy Organizer: John E.P. Connerney
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1198

B5.2	
Gas Giants and Icy Giants with their Systems
Main Scientific Organizer: Anezina Solomonidou
Deputy Organizer: Conor Nixon
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1199

B5.3	
Ocean Worlds: Past, Present, and Future
Main Scientific Organizer: Morgan Cable
Deputy Organizer: Anezina Solomonidou
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1200


6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6

Other SPA-related Sessions


POIS.2	
Machine Learning for Space Weather and Atmospheric Science
Main Scientific Organizer: George A. Danos
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1300

PRBEM.1	
Standards and Tools for Radiation Measurements and Supporting Data
Main Scientific Organizer: Paul O’Brien
Deputy Organizer: Daniel Heynderickx
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1305

PRBEM.2	
Radiation Environment across the Solar System: Observations, Measurements, and Models for Current and Future Space Missions
Main Scientific Organizer: Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Deputy Organizer: Junga Hwang, Wousik Kim
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1306

PRBEM.3	
Development and Validation of Numerical and Empirical Radiation Belts Models
Main Scientific Organizer: Antoine Brunet
Deputy Organizer: Leonid Olifer
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1307

PSB.1	
Scientific Ballooning: Recent Developments in Technology and Instrumentation
Main Scientific Organizer: Hideyuki Fuke
Deputy Organizer: Vincent Dubourg
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1308

PSB.2	
Low-Cost Balloon Flights as a Learning Tool
Main Scientific Organizer: Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti
Deputy Organizer: n/a
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1309

TGCSS.1	
Small Spacecraft - Big Science
Main Scientific Organizer: Daniel N. Baker
Deputy Organizer: Amal Chandran
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1325

TGIGSP.1	
ISTPNext: International Coordination in Heliophysics
Main Scientific Organizer: Larry Kepko
Deputy Organizer: Rumi Nakamura
Event Description: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1326


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