<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif;color:rgb(0,51,204)">IES2017 Abstracts Due March 1, 2017</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Dear IES Friends
and Colleagues:</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">The current deadline for receipt of abstracts is <b>March 1, 2017</b>. The meeting itself will be held 9-11 May 2017
in Alexandria, Virginia. Submission instructions and more information can be
found on the web site </span><a href="https://ies2017.bc.edu/"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">https://ies2017.bc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Topics include the
following:</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Global Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS) measurements and applications</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Ionospheric
irregularities and radio wave scintillations</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Active ionospheric
modification effects (high power radio waves, chemical and other techniques)</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Modeling,
forecasting and prediction systems</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Neutral atmosphere
effects and coupling, including gravity waves, tides and sudden
stratospheric warming events</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Radio occultation
sensing techniques and applications</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Effects on HF and
longwave propagation, such as traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs)</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Space-Weather and
ionospheric effects on telecommunication and satellite systems </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Current solar cycle
phenomena and impact on operational systems</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Applications of
ground- and space-based ionospheric tomography</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Impact of global electrodynamics
on the storm-time ionosphere</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Modeling,
measurement and prediction of solar processes and resulting impacts on the
ionosphere</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Satellite-based
observations, modeling and calibration</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Ionospheric effects
on SBAS, GBAS and other systems supporting aviation</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Optical effects and
remote sensing</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Effects of solar
noise bursts and environmental noise on telecommunication and navigation
systems</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Impacts on HF
surveillance and communication systems including geolocation and coordinate
registration</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Space-Weather
program activities having relevance to ionospheric effects on C3I and
navigation systems</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.9in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Products and
services offered by government or industry relevant to prediction and forecasting
of ionospheric effects</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">We sincerely hope to see you at IES2017. Please submit your abstract soon. If you have
questions or need information not found on the website, please contact us
directly at </span><a href="mailto:IES2017@bc.edu"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">IES2017@bc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">. Thank you.</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">With best regards,</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Keith Groves and
Patricia Doherty</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Institute for
Scientific Research</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"baskerville old face",serif">Boston College</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p></div></div>