CEDAR email: REMINDER: STP sessions and working group meeting Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) - Deadlines approaching

[Craig Rodger]

The deadline for the abstract submission to the SCAR Open Science Conference 
2016 (Kuala Lumpur, 22-26 August 2016, http://scar2016.com/) is approaching (14 
Feb 2016). A list of useful information regarding the meeting is listed below:

1) Symposia and Sessions descriptions http://scar2016.com/symposia-session.php

S15. Solar-terrestrial physics in the polar regions
Conveners (Session 15): Emilia Correia, Brazil; Maurizio Candidi, Italy; Craig 
J. Rodger, New Zealand; Yasmina M. Martos, UK

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.

Invited speakers:
   Mark Clilverd, NERC/British Antarctic Survey (UK)
   Karl Magnus Laundal, University of Bergen (Norway)

S16. Global navigation satellite system research and applications
Conveners (Session 16): Giorgiana de Franceschi, Italy; Paul Prikryl, Canada; 
Nicolas Bergeot, Belgium; Elizabeth Petrie, UK

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) contribute to the study of many 
aspects of Antarctic science, from the atmosphere to the solid Earth. This 
session solicits contributions on GNSS-based research and applications in 
Antarctica. In keeping with the SCAR OSC 2016 theme, ‘Polar Tropical 
Connectivity: Antarctica in the Global Earth System’, contributions 
highlighting the differences and similarities at high and low latitudes of the 
atmospheric effects on GNSS signals, strategies and performance are 
particularly welcome. Studies dealing with ionospheric irregularities, 
scintillation, total electron content (TEC) gradients, water vapor (WV) 
content, multipath, and impacts on different applications using GNSS such as 
positioning, space weather, solid Earth, cryosphere research and remote sensing 
are highly encouraged. Papers dealing with GNSS data collection, data sets, 
model and processing developments and infrastructure available to support 
investigations are also welcome, as are those where GNSS is one part of a 
multi-instrument approach.


2) Abstracts submission http://scar2016.com/abstract-submission.php DEADLINE 14 
FEBRUARY 2016

3) Registration http://scar2016.com/registration.php  EARLY BIRD RATE WITHIN 5 
MAY 2016

4) SERAnt (Sun-Earth Relationships and Antarctica) Working Group Meeting will 
be held on Sunday 21 August from 16.00 to 19.00 at the University of Malaya, 
IPS building, 4th floor, room Cube 2. People interested in sessions 15 and 16 
should consider participating in the session. Important issues will be 
discussed, particularly the possibility that a new and more ambitious 
Scientific Research Program (SRP) is launched, focussed on the science of 
ionospheric propagation and the effects on it of solar phenomena, to give our 
discipline more visibility within SCAR. This new program would include GRAPE 
groups (GRAPE is the SCAR expert group GNSS Research and Application for Polar 
Environment: http://www.grape.scar.org/). We will discuss ways to improve such 
SRP with wider perspectives by SERAnt groups.

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Professor Craig J. Rodger
Department of Physics			Phone: +64 3 479 4120
University of Otago                     Fax:  +64 3 479 0964
PO Box 56, Dunedin 9016
NEW ZEALAND