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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText">Dear CEDAR Community, </p><p class="MsoPlainText"> </p><h1 style="margin-top:2.95pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">ISEA-14:<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Third<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Announcement</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The 14<sup>th</sup> International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy will be held in Africa for the first time in more than four decades, from <b>October 19-23, 2015</b> at Bahir Dar University, in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Bahir Dar city, one of the tourist destinations in the country, is about 560 km from the capital Addis Ababa. There are at least two flights per day to Bahir Dar from Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa, the capital of the African Union, is one of the most easily accessible African cities. There are many flights to Addis Ababa by major carriers, including direct flights from Washington DC and many European major cities. </span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061"></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:5.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:103%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The ISEA is organized approximately every three to four years and is a major event in the field of </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">Aeronomy</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">serves</span><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">forum</span><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">for</span><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">scientists</span><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> around the world </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">to</span><span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">report</span><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">discuss</span><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt"> their </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">recent</span><span style="letter-spacing:4.45pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">research</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">outputs, results </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">progress</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">related</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">to</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">the</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>physics<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">of</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">the</span><span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">thermosphere</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> ionosphere</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> equatorial,</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">low- and mid-latitudes. The</span><span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">ISEA</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>14<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">program</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">includes</span><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> six</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">scientific</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>sessions (shown below)<span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">with</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">oral</span><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">poster</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">portions that will be distributed</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">over</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">four</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>half<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">conference</span><span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>days.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> More i</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">nformation can be found at </span><a href="http://www.bdu.edu.et/isea14/"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.bdu.edu.et/isea14/</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S1:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling impact at low and mid latitude</span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S2:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Longitudinal dependence of equatorial electrodynamics and storm-enhanced density<span style="letter-spacing:3.55pt"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S3:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ionospheric irregularities and scintillations</span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S4:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New results from recently deployed instrumentation</span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S5: </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Equatorial aeronomy related to atmosphere-ionosphere coupling<span style="letter-spacing:3.05pt"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:2.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:103%"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">S6:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Future opportunities using upcoming new mission and planned ground-based instrumentation</span></i></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important Due Dates: </span></b></p></div><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Nyala"><br clear="all" style></span></b><div class="WordSection2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Abstract Submission Due Date: </span><b><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">April 17, 2015</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Early Registration Due Date: </span><b><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">July 31, 2015</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">P</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">lease<span style="letter-spacing:2.65pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">bookmark</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">the</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">ISEA </span>14<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> page</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></span><a href="http://jro.igp.gob.pe/isea13"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://www.bdu.edu.et/isea14/</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0e37a5;letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">and<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">take</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">action</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">now.</span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061"></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><h1 style="margin-right:27.15pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.05pt">The </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">ISEA-14<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>International<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">Organizing</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Committee</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"></span></h1><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Endawoke Yizengaw (Boston College, USA; </span><a href="mailto:kassie@bc.edu"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">kassie@bc.edu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:79.9pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:98%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:98%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jonathan<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Makela<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>(University<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Illinois,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>USA;<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span></span><a href="mailto:jmakela@illinois.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:98%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">jmakela@illinois.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:98%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:98%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jorge<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>L.<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Chau<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">(IAP,</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">Germany;</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span></span><a href="mailto:chau@iap-kborn.de"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">chau@iap-kborn.de</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:3.55pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Philip Erickson (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">MIT Haystack Observatory, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">USA; </span><a href="mailto:pje@haystack.mit.edu"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">pje@haystack.mit.edu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:27.15pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kazuo<span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">Shiokawa</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">(Nagoya</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">University,</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">Japan;</span><span style="letter-spacing:2.25pt"> </span></span><a href="mailto:shiokawa@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">shiokawa@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.05pt">)</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Claudia Stolle (GFZ Potsdam, Germany; </span><a href="mailto:cstolle@gfz-potsdam.de"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">cstolle@gfz-potsdam.de</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Duggirala Pallamraju (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Physical Research Laboratory</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, India; </span><a href="mailto:raju@prl.res.in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">raju@prl.res.in</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anja Stromme (SRI, USA/Norway; </span><a href="mailto:Anja.Stromme@sri.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anja.Stromme@sri.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Marco Milla (JRO, Peru; </span><a href="mailto:marco.milla@jro.igp.gob.pe"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">marco.milla@jro.igp.gob.pe</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"> </p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Endawoke Yizengaw (PhD)</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Senior Scientist of Space Science</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Institute for Scientific Research</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Boston College</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * 140 Commonwealth Avenue</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3862</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Phone: 617-552-0146; FAX: 617-552-2818</p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * Email: <a href="mailto:kassie@bc.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">kassie@bc.edu</span></a> </p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * URL: <a href="http://www2.bc.edu/~kassie/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www2.bc.edu/~kassie/</span></a> </p><p class="MsoPlainText">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p></div></body></html>