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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Welcome to this year’s VCAIS and ANGWIN meeting, June 2-7, 2024, in Fredericton, NB Canada!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">This year’s biennial VCAIS (the 9th Vertical Coupling of the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System Mtg) meeting will be a combined meeting with ANGWIN (the 6th ANtarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network
Mtg). It will take place in Fredericton, NB, Canada the first week of June, 2024 (June 2 -7, 2024) and will provide an opportunity to build collaborations between these two active research communities.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">This workshop will focus on processes that couple the neutral atmosphere layers, the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, and their nature and consequences. This coupling occurs over a range of temporal
and spatial scales, varies with location, season and time and is driven by various dynamical, chemical, and electrodynamic processes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">The objective of this meeting is to provide a venue for discussions and collaborations between scientists involved in studying the coupling and associated mechanisms linking the atmosphere, ionosphere
and magnetosphere. Papers on the observations, data analysis, modelling and theory relevant to all aspects of this coupling are encouraged. While wave processes at all latitudes and heights are of interest, some sessions will have gravity wave processes in
Polar Regions as their primary focus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Registration and abstract submission will open on February 1, 2024 and close on April 24, 2024 and May 1, 2024 respectively. There will be some support for early career scientists and students
to attend this meeting (application deadline – April 5) and a student workshop on observation techniques and analysis is planned.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Further details are available on the conference web site,
<a href="https://vcais2024.ca/">https://vcais2024.ca/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">William Ward on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee and the Local Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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