CEDAR email: STP Session Announcement: Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) 2016 Open Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22-26 August 2016

[Craig Rodger]

MEETING: Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) 2016 Open 
Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22-26 August 2016. SESSION: 
S15. Solar-terrestrial physics in the polar regions

A call for abstracts for the SCAR 2016 Open Science Conference to be held 
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 22-26 August 2016 has recently been 
announced. This conference will focus on Antarctica in the Global Earth 
System: From the Poles to the Tropics and how the changes that we are 
currently seeing in Antarctica will affect the rest of the world. We wish 
to draw the communities attention to the S15. Solar-terrestrial physics in 
the polar regions session.

Conference Programme, including sessions and descriptions, is now 
available on the conference website: http://www.scar.org/2016-osc.

Session Description: Research in the polar regions provides key 
high-latitude observations, which are essential to understand fundamental 
aspects of coupling between the solar wind and Earth’s atmosphere, 
ionosphere, and magnetosphere (AIM). The vast geographical regions in both 
hemispheres provide unique and comprehensive access to a broad range of 
geophysical phenomena, spanning magnetic and geographic latitudes from the 
sub-auroral zone to the polar caps, and altitudes from the troposphere 
upwards. These include investigations of high energy particles in the 
upper atmosphere, wave processes in the magnetosphere, auroras, 
inter-hemispheric differences, induced electrical currents, space weather, 
the geomagnetic field, ionosphere, temperature and winds in the neutral 
atmosphere, and atmospheric waves. This session solicits papers on recent 
advances in Solar-Terrestrial Physics, studies incorporating Antarctic 
observations in the global context, and studies based on the integration 
of space and ground based observations. Similar research on other planets 
and comparison with the Earth are also welcome.

The submission of abstracts is open until 14 February 2016. We encourage 
those participating in Antarctic expeditions to submit abstracts early. 
Early bird registration ends on 5 May 2014.

Note that as the only international Antarctic research conference of its 
kind, this meeting brings together people and groups with various 
interests - and there is an opportunity to hold side meetings together 
with SCAR 2016. If you would like to hold a side meeting, please fill out 
the form as soon as possible. Space is limited and allotted on a first 
come, first served basis: 
http://www.scar.org/scarmeetings/conferences/2016-osc-home/side-meetings

On behalf of the session organisers: Emilia Correia, Brazil; Maurizio 
Candidi, Italy; Craig J. Rodger, New Zealand; Yasmina M. Martos, UK