December 2016 IAGA News No. 53

IAGA, the International Association of Geo- Foreword magnetism and Aeronomy, is the premier international scientific asso- This issue of IAGA News ciation promoting the study of terrestrial contains information and planetary magnetism and space physics about the IAGA activi- ties over the year 2016, with a forward look at preparations for the Sci- entific Assembly in 2017. Indded, I am thrilled to welcome you to the 2017 Contents Joint IAPSO-IAMAS- IAGA Assembly which 1 Message from the President 2 will take place from 27 August to 1 September 2 Preparation for the 2017 Joint 2017 at the Cape Town IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scientific International Convention Assembly 2 Centre (CTICC), South Africa. Cape Town acts as an environmental gateway to many of our scientific interests 3 Swarm mission – probing the geoag- and thus provides an ideal scientific destination for an netic field 3 international conference on various earth system studies. I look forward to seeing as many of you as are able to 4 Reports on Meetings: IAGA- attend in Cape Town next summer. Sponsored or of IAGA interest 4 This issue also contains reports on IAGA activities of dif- 4.1 7th VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of Iono- ferent kinds and provides information about recently de- spheres and Magnetospheres Workshop 4 ceased IAGA scientists. In its present form, IAGA News 4.2 23st EM Induction Workshop .... 5 contains only brief summaries of different activities and 4.3 MT3DINV3: 3rd Workshop on 3-D topics; the reader is referred to the newly disigned IAGA Magnetotelluric Inversion ...... 6 website (www.iaga-aiga.org) for more details. Informa- 4.4 6th IAGA/ICMA/SCOSTEP Work- tion on activities at Division level can be found on each shop on Vertical Coupling in the Division’s website. Atmosphere-Ionosphere System . . . 7 IAGA News is distributed – in its electronic form – to the 4.5 15th Castle Meetings Workshop . . . 8 th National Correspondents in the Member Countries, to all 4.6 XVII IAGA Workshop on Geomag- IAGA officers and to scientists who have attended recent netic Observatory Instruments, Data IAGA assemblies. Please feel free to distribute IAGA news Acquisition and Processing ..... 9 around, especially to national policy makers and leaders, 4.7 IAGA-IV Symposium ”Influence of whose decisions can affect the activities of IAGA scien- short and long term solar variability on tists. climate” ...... 10 4.8 International Conference “Data Inten- Mioara Mandea (Secretary-General) sive System Analysis for Geohazard Studies” ...... 10 5 In Memorium 12 IAGA on the Web 6 General information about IAGA 18 Information on IAGA is regularly updated at the IAGA 6.1 IAGA books series published by Springer 18 site: 6.2 IAGA website ...... 19 http://www.iaga-aiga.org/ 6.3 IAGA contact ...... 19

IAGA News 2016 – Page 1 1 Message from the President Next year we are heading for the scientific assembly, which will be held jointly with IAMAS and IAPSO in Cape Town, South Africa. Thanks to great effort of all the conveners, Dear friends and col- working group and division leaders, and our Secretary leagues, dear Geomag- General, 44 IAGA symposia and 4 joint symposia led by netists and Aeronomers, IAGA represent a great appeal and “magnetism” to many It might seem that a rd of us. Moreover, the 3 IAGA Summer School will be year without an IAGA held during the days before the Assembly. I firmly believe assembly is not that that these events will be well attended and will represent busy. However, the con- memorable events in the IAGA records. trary is true; this year was full of small events and actions, organized I would like also to mention that we were also active with from the bottom, which respect to other organizations and upon their request are (and should be also we nominated our representatives in, e.g., the revitalised in the future) the core of IUGG Union Commission for Data and Information. Last IAGA activities. Later in but not least, IAGA contributed to the IUGG Strategic the IAGA News you will Plan for 2016-2023 (many thanks are due to Mioara and find more details in reports from these topical meetings, Kathy for this). organized by the IAGA working groups. I had the oppor- tunity to personally attend two of them. The first one was And not to forget, it is my great pleasure to mention that th a must for me, the 15 “Castle Meeting” on Paleo, Rock our Mioara is awarded the National Order of Merit by and Environmental Magnetism, excellently organised by the decree of the French President for her outstanding our Belgian colleagues in Dinant, Belgium. I would like to scientific career and public service. She will be raised highlight the number of young researchers, i.e. graduate to the rank of Chevalier (Knight) at a special ceremony. and undergraduate students, comprising about 30 out of Congratulations to Mioara! some 90 participants at the meeting. And they performed very well, giving excellent presentations, as pointed out To conclude, I am very optimistic with respect to the by the jury that evaluated the students’ presentations. future; IAGA is viable, with a sizeable number of active This promising trend will hopefully be maintained in the colleagues serving the community, and with a promis- future. A summer school for students was organised in ing growth in the number and quality of our young re- the preceding days at the Geomagnetic Observatory in searchers. I only hope that this will be confirmed by the Dourbes, which was attended by some 20 students from participants at the forthcoming IAGA scientific assembly all around the world. The excellent informal atmosphere in Cape Town. Despite this being a remote location for and enthusiasm of all the lecturers contributed signifi- many, this event should become a highlight of next year. cantly to the success of the event and to the reputation Finally, let me wish you all the best in your work, as well of IAGA amongst the younger generation. The other th as in your personal life, and I look forward to seeing you meeting I attended was the 17 Geomagnetic Observa- next year in Cape Town. tory Workshop in Dourbes, Belgium. It was my first time at this meeting and I am happy to say that the event was great from both the point of view of the scientific level Eduard Petrovsky and the general workshop and family-like atmosphere. (President)

2 Preparation for the 2017 Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scientific Assembly

For the 2017 joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scien- tific Assembly the route is to South Africa! The meeting will bring many occasion for sci- entists to discuss a wide range of topics, over South Africa is host to many National Research breaks, poster sessions, and the IAGA special din- Facilities including the Hermanus Magnetic Ob- ner party! servatory (where IAGA plans to organise the Time and Place 3rd Summer School), South African Institute for The 2017 Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scientific Aquatic Biodiversity, South African Environmen- Assembly will be organised in Cape Town, South tal Observation Networks and many others that Africa. The Joint Assembly, endorsed by the will be of interest to the participants.

IAGA News 2016 – Page 2 University of Cape Town and the South African Town). Department of Science and Technology, will take Key dates place from 27 August to 1 September 2017 at 1 Sept 2016: Registration Opens the Cape Town International Convention Centre 17 Feb 2017: Deadline for Submission and Grant (CTICC). Application 7 April 2017: Notification of Acceptance Local Organising Committee The Local Or- 21 April 2017: Notification of Programme Allo- ganising Committee (LOC) comprises of a mix cation of young early career scientists as well as estab- 5 May 2017: Early Bird Registration Deadline lished researchers in all three earth disciplines. In addition, many of the LOC members are currently More information committee members of the IUGG -South Africa National Committee. Detailed information on programme, abstract submission, registration, accommodation, venue The Local Organising Committee (LOC) is are provided: chaired by Isabelle Ansorge (University of Cape http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/

3 Swarm mission – probing the geoagnetic field

Three years into operations since its launch in has initiated the consolidation of ideas for prod- 22 November 2013, the Swarm constellation is ucts evolution and new product procurements. providing excellent measurements of the Earth’s The first call for ideas for new products and magnetic field and associated plasma environ- services has received an overwhelming response. ment. The user community is achieving unprece- All DISC activities are closely coordinated with dented scientific results and exploring new appli- downstream mission exploitation efforts, such cations. as those performed under the Support To Sci- All three-satellite platforms are performing very ence Element umbrella. As such, potential key well, essentially free of any anomalies, and research future activities have been identified the space segment constellation orbit geometry in the field of upper atmosphere (ionosphere- evolves in line with expectation. With regards thermosphere-magnetosphere coupling), climate to the payloads, the main technical and scien- related processes (magnetosphere-atmosphere tific challenges are the limited availability of high- coupling), deep-Earth dynamics processes. quality accelerometer data from Alpha and Bravo, The Swarm constellation could further strengthen the search for optimised (near-continuous) oper- its scientific impact through the integration of ations scenarios for the Thermal Ion Imagers and the Canadian Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e- the search for the optimal understanding of the POP) payload as a fourth measurement point. e- optical bench performance for magnetometry and POP is a scientific payload for CASSIOPE (CAS- attitude observations. Expert groups constantly cade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer), work and meet to discuss the resolution of these a multi-purpose small satellite mission from the issues, provinding essential support for the ver- Canadian Space Agency. e-POP is a scientific ification and validation of all data products, as payload consisting of eight high-resolution instru- well as the enhancement of processing algorithms. ments probing the characteristics of near-Earth Specific investigations also involve dedicated at- space. Given the significant overlap in mission titude manoeuvres and hardware setting modifi- scope and instrument capabilities with Swarm, cations. the e-POP data would be extremely valuable for In the data quality and content area, the Swarm the Swarm community supporting scientists in Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC) their investigation of the Earth’s ionosphere, ther- mosphere and magnetosphere. The addition of

IAGA News 2016 – Page 3 e-POP as ESA Third Party Mission is not formu- exploitation. The upcoming programmatic deci- lated as a basic data archiving and re-distribution sion will focus on the Swarm mission extension service, but it is actually conceived with an inte- and on the specific management of the constella- grated approach and mutual engagement to en- tion orbit evolution to optimise the scientific re- hance the mission objectives. The two missions turn of the mission. would work together starting from the coordi- The important 2017 Swarm-related meetings nated operational planning up to the joint ef- are the Fourth Swarm Science Meeting or- fort of innovating the scientific exploitation of ganised at the Park Lodge Hotel in Banff, the data to increase the number of related ap- Alberta, Canada from 20-24 March 2017 plications and their societal relevance. (http://swarm2017.org/) and the 7th Data Qual- With an astonishing number of publications cov- ity Workshop will be organised in Delft on 9-12 ering a broad spectrum of scientific subjects October 2017 hosted by the Delft University of from Earth’s core evolution to small-scale high- Technology. energy and dynamic ionosphere events, the three- Giuseppe Ottavianelli, Rune Floberghagen (ESA) satellite constellation promises to further unveil Mioara Mandea (CNES) new discoveries during its future years of mission

4 Reports on Meetings: IAGA-Sponsored or of IAGA interest

4.1 Report on the 7th VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of Ionospheres and Magneto- spheres Workshop 2016

Hermanus, South Africa, 19-24 September 2016 The 7th workshop of the URSI/IAGA Joint Work- ing Group on ELF/VLF Remote Sensing of Iono- spheres and Magnetospheres (VERSIM) took place in Hermanus, South Africa, over the period 19-24 September 2016. Due to its scientific syn- ergy and large overlap in membership, the VER- SIM workshop held a coordinated meeting to- gether with the Radiation Belt workshop, and was renamed VERSIM-RB to reflect this joint theme. The workshop was organized by the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) under the di- The scientific program committee for the work- rection of Prof. Michael Kosch and Ms. Karen shop consisted of Prof. Jacob Bortnik (IAGA co- Wurbach. More details can be found on the chair of VERSIM, University of California at Los workshop website: https://events.sansa.org. Angeles, USA), Dr. Mark Clilverd (URSI co-chair za/versim-information. The scientific sponsor- of VERSIM, British Antarctic Survey, UK), Prof. ship and financial support for this workshop was Michael Kosch (meeting organizer, SANSA chief provided by the Union Radio-Scientifique Interna- scientist, South Africa), Prof. Craig Rodger (Uni- tionale (URSI), the International Association for versity of Dunedin, New Zealand), and Dr. Geoff Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), and the Reeves (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA). Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physic’s The workshop attracted 55 participants from 16 (SCOSTEP’s) Variability of the Sun and it’s Ter- different countries, which is considered to be ex- restrial Impacts (VarSITI) program.

IAGA News 2016 – Page 4 cellent attendance numbers especially given the 1. An introductory and historical talk (which fairly distant conference location in South Africa was recorded and placed online for future integra- (e.g., compare to the 6th VERSIM workshop held tion into the VERSIM webpage: https://www. in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2014 which had 35 youtube.com/watch?v=27Xf8k7 jZQ). participants from 14 different countries). There were many outstanding presentations given Due to the financial support received by VERSIM, at the meeting that are too numerous to list we were able to provide financial support for the in this brief report, but a few common themes meeting for 11 individuals. This was prioritized emerged regarding the improved detection and on supporting participants who were either stu- characterizations of whistler waves for remote dents/young scientists, or came from developing sensing the plasmasphere, detection of VLF trans- countries. In order to maximize the impact, spon- mitter waves for measuring and characterizing the sorship from different sources was pooled, and the lower ionospheric density profile, the importance recipients received support covering all expenses of whistler-mode and EMIC waves in control- except for international flights to Cape Town. ling the dynamics of the radiation belts, the sig- There were a total of 69 abstracts received, 59 nificantly expanded and improved multi-platform of which could be accommodated as oral presen- observational network that is now available to tations, and 10 of which presented as posters. the VERSIM community, including the Van Allen More information on presenters and abstracts can Probes, THEMIS, CLUSTER, MMS (spacecraft) be found on the abstract webpage: https:// as well as ground based lightning detection net- events.sansa.org.za/abstracts. The abstracts works, WWLLN and GLD360. were organized into 6 days, the first 4 days During the VERSIM business meeting, there were of which were devoted to core VERSIM topics two presentations given as bids to host the next and the last 2 days transitioned into more of a VERSIM workshop in 2018. These were: 1. An- radiation-belt focus. The VERSIM scientific pro- drei Demekhov, Russian location in either Apatity gram can be found here: https://events.sansa. or Murmansk 2. Geoff Reeves, US location in ei- org.za/versim-programme. ther Arizona or New Mexico. There will be an The VERSIM workshop continues to be the sci- online poll created over the next few weeks and entific highlight of the VERSIM group, and was the VERSIM community as a whole will vote on well supported with many outstanding presenta- the next venue. tion and broad international participation. The J. Bortnik scientific content was thematically divided into: On behalf of the Scientific Committee

4.2 23rd EM Induction Workshop

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 14-20 August, 2016

The 23rd Electromagnetic Induction Workshop of the Empress Hotel. Chiang Mai is the largest (EMIW) was for the first time held in Chiang Mai, city in northern Thailand. It was the capital of Thailand, from 14 - 20 August 2016. The venue the Lanna Kingdom back in 1296. It is there- was located at the Empress Convention Center fore known for the rich and unique northern Thai

IAGA News 2016 – Page 5 scenery, Lanna culture and Thai food. No doubt, ited; decisions were made by the Financial Sup- it is one of the top destinations within Thailand port Committee of IAGA Division VI. Priority was for tourists from all over the world. Transporta- given to tion to Chiang Mai is therefore easy, as there are many direct flights from both Bangkok and other (i) applicants authoring a presentation (either Asian cities. oral or poster), The workshop is held every two years in differ- (ii) students and postdocs/junior scientists ent countries under the auspices of the IUGG and since they typically have less access to other IAGA Division VI - Electromagnetic Induction in sources of funding, and the Earth and Planetary Bodies. Having the 23rd (iii) in particular to applicants, who have not workshop means that we have so far enjoyed 46 received funding for one of the previous years of knowledge sharing, exchanging and de- (three) workshops. bating ideas, inspiring the young, admiring the Weerachai Siripunvaraporn old, and farewell to the legends. For the Chi- Chair of the Local Organizing Committee ang Mai workshop, we still keep the workshop atmosphere the same as in the previous 22 oc- casions. Besides maintaining the high standard 4.3 MT3DINV3: Third Workshop on 3-D of the workshop, we blend the atmosphere with Magnetotelluric Inversion Thai smiles, Thai hospitality, Lanna culture, and delicious Thai food. We also brought all partic- Bari, Italy, 16-18 May 2016 ipants outside to explore the unique natural en- vironment, Lanna culture and food during a one- day excursion. For the 23rd workshop, we had 288 participants from 39 countries joining the workshop. Among these were 176 delegates, 90 students, 7 retired scientists and 15 accompanying persons. In addi- tion to 288 participants, 27 Thai colleagues from our own staff increased the total number of atten- dants to 315. There were a total of 351 abstracts submitted in which 49 abstracts were selected by the Workshop Program Committee for oral pre- sentations. All posters were on display for the en- Just as the prior two workshops, this third one tire week of workshop allowing the delegates to has given the opportunity to bring together MT not only have a chance to see the posters during 3D inversion code writers and code users and as- the poster sessions, but also at their own conve- sess how well the codes perform as well as how nient time. The abstracts and extended abstracts they are well/poorly understood from the users. including the review manuscripts were made avail- All the attendees earned a place at the workshop able to the participants of the workshop via the by performing one or both of the following tasks: web site of the conference (www.emiw2016.org). forward modeling a test model (DTM3), or in- In addition, session descriptions and reviewer bib- verting the secret model (DSM3). The workshop liographies, program schedules including excur- has been web-cast in order to give the oppor- sion details can be obtained from the Program tunity to all the scientists (who did not complete Book available via our official website. the task or who were not able to attend the work- shop) to follow the event. During the three days Similar to previous workshops, we had provided of workshop (16-18 May 2016) the focus was se- significant financial support for a number of par- quentially on the following topics: ticipants who contributed to the workshop but had insufficient funds to cover their travel and 1. 3D forward modeling participation costs. Unfortunately, not all appli- cants could be supported as resources were lim- 2. 3D inversion

IAGA News 2016 – Page 6 3. Open questions about 3D forward and in- contributions were presented, among them 9 so- version approaches and their reliability. licited. Abstracts and the Workshop program are available online at http://www.ss.ncu.edu. ∼ The first two days have permitted to compare tw/ vcais6/program.html. results coming from codes based on different ap- proaches: integral equations, finite differences, fi- nite elements methods. The comparison of the results has shown the criticisms of the responses when complex topography and bathymetry are to be accounted for together with complex resistivity distribution in depth. During the third day, it toke place an open and intense discussion among the attendants aimed to delineate which are the best line for and useful development in the research of 3D electromagnetic forward and inversion mod- eling. This traditional meeting brought together re- th The workshop was preceded on 15 of May by search experts from the lower, middle and upper a training day on ModEM, a 3D magnetotelluric neutral atmosphere and ionosphere communities inversion code made by Gary Egbert, Anna Kel- in order to present their work and assess/debate bert and Naser Meqbel. ongoing issues relating to the theoretical, mod- The number of participants: 29 come from: Aus- elling and observational aspects of all kind of pro- tralia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iran, Ire- cesses which transfer energy and momentum from land, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzer- the lower atmosphere to the upper atmosphere land, United Kingdom, United States of America. and ionosphere and vice versa. More information on https://www.dias.ie/ The past two years have seen considerable mt3dinv3/Home.html, and a streaming web progress in observing and quantifying variabil- recorded during the workshop is now avail- ity throughout the atmosphere-ionosphere system able at https://www.youtube.com/user/ driven by dynamical and chemical coupling, as unialdomoro/videos well as identifying their respective driving mech- anisms. To facilitate the community dialogue Agata Siniscalchi Chair of the Local Organizing Committee crucial to understanding how these phenomena contribute to the overall variation of the Earth’s atmospheric system, the 6th Workshop on Verti- cal Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere Sys- 4.4 6th IAGA/ICMA/SCOSTEP Work- tem was held. This meeting provided an excel- shop on Vertical Coupling in the lent opportunity for the research communities to Atmosphere-Ionosphere System interact in a supplementary manner in review- ing and debating the progress done to date in Taipei, Taiwan. July 25 - 29, 2016 the field of the upper atmosphere-ionosphere and The 6th IAGA/ICMA/SCOSTEP Workshop on come up with suggestions and ideas for further re- Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere search on the vertical coupling of the atmosphere- System was held on the campus of Academia ionosphere system. Interaction between scientists Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan from July 25 - 29, 2016. from atmospheric, space and solar physics has This is the second time this Workshop has been been found to be very fruitful in terms of ini- held in Asia, with the objective of encouraging the tiating further discussions of research and open involvement of researchers and students in this questions. region. Participation at the Workshop included Topics of interest included ionosphere and the- colleagues from 16 institutions across 9 countries mospheric variability induced by the propaga- spanning Asia, Europe, North and South Amer- tion, breaking, and modulation of atmospheric ica. During five days of the workshop over 40 tides and planetary waves, middle atmospheric ef-

IAGA News 2016 – Page 7 fects of planetary waves, as well as their interan- from the 21st to the 27th of August 2016. In to- nual variability, ionospheric variations due to solar tal, 85 participants from 24 countries from four eclipses, dust storms, and earthquakes, chemical continents participated actively and gave 94 con- and dynamical changes observed in airglow, as ference presentations (64 oral, 30 posters), with a well as upper atmospheric changes caused by in- remarkable number of 34 Master / PhD student creasing carbon dioxide concentrations and tro- contributions. The scientific programme was par- pospheric climatological effects such as ENSO. titioned into plenary sessions consisting of 8 to 10 Participants agreed on the need for a detailed re- oral presentations, two poster flash presentation view of recent findings, particularly on variability sessions, and sufficient time for poster viewing. A driven by propagating planetary waves, and also conference highlight were the four invited talks. initiated planning for a special edition of the Jour- Trond H. Torsvik (University of Oslo, Nor- nal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, way) reviewed the Phanerozoic palaeomagnetism to be submitted in December 2016. and Jean-Pierre Valet (Institut de Physique du The Organizing Committee would like to ac- Globe de Paris, France) sedimentary geomagnetic knowledge financial support from the Interna- records. The look beyond is a key characteristic tional Association of Geomagnetism and Aeron- of an open-minded scientific community, notably omy (IAGA), SCOSTEP VarSITI and the Taiwan in times when transdisciplinary research gains in- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). creasingly in importance. In order to cater for The grants were used to cover travel expences these developments, Silvio Dutz (Technische Uni- of four young scientists and waiving fees 4 partic- versit¨at Ilmenau, Germany) presented physical as- ipants. Among four supported young scientists, pects of magnetic nanoparticles and their use for there are two invited speakers. magnetic fluid hyperthermia - an experimental Dr. Petra Kouck´aKn´ıˇzov´a anticancer treatment. Furthermore, it was a par- Chair of the Scientific Committee and ticular honour to follow the presentation of Andr´e Loren Chang Berger (Universit´eCatholique de Louvain, Bel- Chair of the Local Organizing Committee gium), underlining the importance of past climate records and climate sensitivity with respect to ge-

th ographic and seasonal insulation changes for the 4.5 15 Castle Meetings Workshop establishment of future climate projections. Be- side the scientific programme, two half-day ex- Dinant, Belgium, 21 - 27 August 2016 cursions were organised: to Bruges and to the Brasserie du Bocq in Purnode. A choral concert in the Collegiate church of Dinant and a dinner boat trip on the last day completed the meeting. The Castle meetings are aiming to involve more and more students, thus facilitating their inte- gration into the international scientific commu- nity, and to encourage them in their scientific research. In order to underline this, a commit- tee of five experienced scientists evaluated all student presentations - a rather difficult task given the generally high quality. As a result, The biennial Castle meetings are an appreciated five awards for outstanding student presentations scientific event in the international scientific com- were given to: Stanislava Akimova, (Moscow, munity of palaeo- rock and environmental mag- Russia), Katarzyna Dudzisz (Warsaw, Poland), netists. Existing already for 28 years, they are Frances Heinrich (M¨unster Germany), Padraig providing a fair budget platform fostering scien- O´ Conbhu´ı(Edinburgh, UK), S´ebastien Wouters tific exchange between researchers from different (Brussels, Belgium). Katarzyna Dudzisz from the generations. Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of The 15th edition of the Castle meeting was held Sciences was nominated for the IAGA Young Stu- in the Castel de Pont-`a-Lesse (Dinant, Belgium)

IAGA News 2016 – Page 8 dent Award for her presentation entitled “Paleo (Aughton, UK) and LOT-QuantumDesign GmbH and rock-magnetism of the Lower Triassic rocks (Darmstadt, Germany). We wish to express our from the Hornsund -Sørkapp area, Spitsbergen.” deepest gratitude to all of them. IAGA financial Another innovation that started in 2014, is the contribution was provided to participants from pre-meeting short course for students. This year’s China, Greece, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine. short-course focused besides magnetic suscepti- The next, 16th edition of the Castle Meetings will bility also on hysteresis and was organised in the be held in Poland in 2018. Out of two bids - RMI’s Geophysical Centre in Dourbes. The sup- Croatia and Poland - presented at the meeting, port of AGICO s.r.o. (Brno, Czechia) and LOT- the proposition from Poland got the higher num- QuantumDesign GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany) is ber of votes. We are looking forward to the next highly appreciated here. During 21/2 days, 20 in- fruitful and successful meeting in two years. ternational students followed lessons about ba- Simo Spassov sic physical principles, theoretical aspects, mea- Chair of the Local Organizing Committee surement schemes, data processing, applications and micromagnetic modelling, prepared by Mar- tin Chadima (AGICO, Czechia), Mark Dekkers 4.6 XVIIth IAGA Workshop on Geomag- (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Ramon netic Observatory Instruments, Data Egli (ZAMG, Austria), Karl Fabian (Geological Acquisition and Processing Survey of Norway), Frantiˇsek Hrouda (AGICO, Czechia), Eduard Petrovsk´y (CAS, Czechia), Dourbes, Belgium, 4-10 September, 2016 Simo Spassov (RMI, Belgium) and Libor Ve- jmelek (AGICO, Czechia). The students were provided with the possibility to become familiar with sophisticated measurement instrumentation for magnetic property characterisation. The 15th edition of the Castle meetings has been successful in being a pole attracting, motivating and supporting young generation scientists, fos- tering scientific exchange and bringing together an open-minded scientific community. The suc- th cess of this meeting relied upon the numerous The XVII IAGA Workshop on Geomagnetic motivated hands that helped before, during and Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition and after the meeting, namely my colleagues Muriel Processing was held in Dourbes, Belgium from Borremans, Fran¸cois Brouyaux, Cindy Goeseels September 4 to 10, 2016 in the Geomag- (RMI in Brussels), Marie Verbeek (Archaeologi- netic Observatory DOU pertaining to the In- cal Service of the Walloon region, SPW Namur), stitut Royal M´et´eorologique de Belgique (http: my team from the Laboratory for Environmen- //www.meteo.be/iaga2016). tal Magnetism: Souad Ech-chakrouni, Jozef Hus, The workshop comprised two main activi- Fr´ed´eric Mathot, Ludovic Teruel and Fran¸cois- ties: observatory instruments intercompari- Michel Wattecamps, the personnel of the Geo- son/calibration and conference talks. The two physical Centre in Dourbes: Marie-Claire Bodart, ran in parallel during the five days. We counted Stefan Bracke, Magda Francotte, Fran¸cois Hum- no less than 87 participants from 37 countries of bled, Maryl`ene Preumont, as well as the head of which 21 were out of Europe. We had partic- the department Jean Rasson. ipants from 8 countries in the Southern Hemi- The prosperity of the 15th Castle Meeting owes sphere. A total of 50 instruments were brought also a lot to the generous support of the Bel- in for intercomparison. New in this workshop gian Science Policy (BELSPO), the International was a streamlined approach with concurrent mea- Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy surement and instruments sessions giving more (IAGA), and the following partners: AGICO s.r.o. time for talks and measurements while limiting (Brno, Czechia), Magnetic Measurements Ltd. the workshop duration to 1 week. We had a to- tal of 72 presentations including 1 Invited Talk.

IAGA News 2016 – Page 9 Additionally to the talks, there was a data pro- The scientific program of the Symposium has cessing training session, an EPOS splinter session been divided into 6 scientific sessions distributed and an INTERMAGNET round table. The topics in 4 days as follows: of the conference were: Observatory Instruments and Techniques (19), Observatory Data Acquisi- ❼ tion and Processing (13), Upgraded/New Obser- Solar and Space missions for Space vatories (17), Magnetic Repeat Stations (4) and Weather and solar variability observations, Other Applications for Observatories (16). The Local Organizing committee was able to sup- ❼ Solar activity/variability effects on the port scientists and observers for participating; in lower, middle and upper atmosphere, total, 23 fee waivers, 19 airplane fares and 19 ho- tel rooms were offered to carefully selected par- ❼ ticipants. Modeling climate consequences of solar ac- tivity influence and suggested mechanisms, The results of the instrumentation session and peer-reviewed papers corresponding to the talks will be published in an ”inter-journal” issue in ❼ Modeling and predicting large flares, super both ”Geoscientifical Instrument, method and flares, CMEs and other extreme events, data System” (GI) and in ”Annales Geophysicae” (ANGEO) which are both EGU/Copernicus jour- ❼ nals. Solar energetic particles and Solar wind in- Jean Rasson fluence on the Earth’s inner magnetosphere Chair of the Organizing Committee and atmosphere and

❼ 4.7 IAGA-IV Symposium ”Influence of Societal impact of solar variability, Educa- short and long term solar variability on tion. climate” The articles issued from these presentations and Hurghada, Egypt, 20 -24 March, 2016 posters, upon review, will be published in a special issue of the Cairo University Journal of Advanced Research, an Elsevier publication. Articles are ex- pected in within three months after the Sympo- sium, July 30, 2016 deadline.

Ahmed A. Hady Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee

The Symposium held for the 4th time, with about 4.8 International Conference ”Data Inten- 70 attendances from nine contries: Cameroon, sive System Analysis for Geohazard Egypt, UK, France, Germany, Mali, Morocco, Studies” Russia, Saudi Arabia. Via the Symposium website: http://iaga.cu. Sochi, Russia, 18-21 July, 2016 edu.eg, we received 49 abstracts. The Scien- The international conference “Data Intensive Sys- tific Organizing Committee selected 9 papers as tem Analysis for Geohazard Studies”, that was review or invited speakers’ one. In addition 15 held on 18-21 July 2016 in Rosa Khutor village, papers were accepted as oral contributions and Adler district of the city of Sochi, has been com- poster contributions included 25 papers. pleted.

IAGA News 2016 – Page 10 physical extremes; development, implementation and maintenance of methods and instruments for monitoring; evolution of natural systems to- wards extreme conditions; assessment of global- and local-scale hazardous phenomena; challenges in data processing and analysis using pattern recognition, statistical and other methods rele- vant to large data processing; applications of geo- databases and GIS. The panel discussion ”Great Debate” titled “What scientific and technological data and their Systems Analysis will be in the 21st century?” took place on 20 July 2016. During the meet- The Conference brought together research sci- ing prominent leaders of the international scien- entists, observers, computer experts, practition- tific organizations and distinguished scientists dis- ers and technical end-users concerned with mon- cussed the most significant trends of the 21st cen- itoring of the Earth’s environment, detection of tury in Systems Analysis development, Data Sci- hazards, data analysis and modeling, vulnerabil- ence, geoobservations and other important dis- ity and risk assessment. More than 140 scientists ciplines. Another two scientific events engaging and specialists from 14 countries (Russia, USA, international experts took place on the last day UK, Finland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Aus- of the Conference: Russian Data Citation Work- tria, Netherlands, Italy, South Africa, Iran, India, shop and the workshop, titled “Interdisciplinary Uzbekistan) have participated in the Conference. scientific collaboration towards sustainable Arc- The key goal was to unite the leaders and decision tic”. They provided the overview of modern trend makers of the International organizations that are and the discussion regarding future challenges in specialized in projects related to Systems Analy- the appropriate areas. sis, Data Mining and Data Management. Among the participants of the conference was Director The main events of the Conference were intensely General of the International Institute for Applied covered by Russian scientific media and news Systems Analysis Prof. Pavel Kabat, Secretary agencies. Electronic publications about the Con- General of the International Association of Ge- ference are available at the sites of “Scientific omagnetism and Aeronomy of the International Russia”, Russian Science Foundation (RSF), Rus- Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Prof. Mioara sian Academy of Sciences, Federal Agency for Sci- Mandea, President of the International Coun- entific Organizations, Russian Geographical Soci- cil for Science: Committee on Data for Science ety, “Moskovskij Komsomolets”, “Vesti Sochi”, and Technology (CODATA) Prof. Geoffrey Boul- Russia-Kuban TV-channel, “Argumenty i Fakty“ ton, Director of Department of Homeland Secu- and others. Separately, it should be noted that rity Center of Excellence CCICADA: Command, correspondents from the Russian News Agency Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced TASS were present at the conference and pre- Data Analysis Prof. Fred S. Roberts and others. pared two publications, based on the interviews with the Conference participants. 28 publications The Conference in Sochi was devoted to imple- about the Conference were prepared in total. The mentation of Systems Analysis embracing a so- past Conference resulted in the establishment of phisticated data analysis and holistic Earth sci- new international contacts and collaboration pri- ence approach in order to get comprehensive in- orities including the projects devoted to the Arctic formation on the phenomena of different degrees region. of hazard and on the multi-scale extremes. The topics, discussed during the Conference, included Alexey Gvishiani Chair of the Organizing Committee to observations, detection of and modeling geo- 5 In Memorium

Raymond Hide CBE FRS (1929 - 2016) Raymond was the recipient of many other acco- lades, for example being a member of the Pontif- ical Academy until his death. He held the unique We are sad to record distinction of being the only person to have held the passing of one both the presidencies of the Royal Meteorologi- of the giants of our cal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. field. Raymond Hide From the former he was awarded the Symons Gold passed away on the Medal in 2002 and from the latter the Gold Medal 5th September 2016 in 1989. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Soci- at age 87. Raymond, ety in 1971, and was awarded the Hughes Medal known to his friends of the Royal Society in 1998. as Spike, was a geo- He worked tirelessly for the promotion of geo- physicist of the high- physics and meteorology until his retirement at est calibre, beginning the turn of the millennium. He was especially his scientific career in the 1950s working with Sir supportive of the careers of young scientists. His Patrick Blackett and Keith Runcorn at the Uni- friends will miss his infectious enthusiasm for un- versity of Manchester. As an undergraduate he derstanding the dynamics of planets and the deep worked on the coal mine experiments designed Earth. to confirm or refute the notion that the mag- Andrew Jackson netic field was intrinsically linked to the Earth’s Institut f¨ur Geophysik, ETH Z¨urich, Switzerland rotation. At Cambridge he designed and studied the rotating annulus experiment that caught the imagination of geophysicists and meteorologists Helmut Rosenbauer (1936 - 2016) alike. This experiment studied the influence of convection in the presence of rotation and demon- Dr. Helmut Rosen- strated the likelihood of wave motion in the core. bauer, former direc- Amongst the numerous contributions made by tor of the Max Planck Raymond over the course of his career, we can Institute for Aeron- highlight his theoretical work on MHD waves in omy (today Max the core, his interest in core-mantle interactions Planck Institute for and studies of the length-of-day on both short Solar System Re- and long timescales, as well as planetary atmo- search) died on May spheres and nonlinear dynamics. Sometimes Ray- 5th, 2016 at the age mond’s creative ideas courted controversy, and of 79 after a long ill- he was often willing to contribute to spirited ar- ness. He was a Sci- guments. Amongst the posts held by Raymond entific Member of the Max Planck Society from were Research Associate in Astrophysics, Univer- 1977 until 2004 and played a key role in shaping sity of Chicago; Senior Research Fellow, Atomic and setting up several space missions investi- Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; Lec- gating the Earth’s magnetosphere, solar wind, turer in Physics, King’s College, University of planets, and comets. One of his most impor- Durham; Professor of Geophysics and Physics, tant achievements was his participation in the MIT; Founder and Director of Geophysical Fluid design of the comet lander Philae which touched Dynamics Laboratory at the Met Office, Brack- down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov- nell, and Professor of Physics, University of Ox- Gerasimenko two years ago as part of ESA’s ford. Rosetta mission. Raymond was made a Fellow of the American Helmut Rosenbauer was born in 1936 in Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1967. He was N¨urnberg, Germany. He began his scientific ca- awarded AGU’s highest honour, the Bowie medal, reer at the Technical University of Munich, from for unselfish cooperation in research, in 1997. where he received a Doctorate of Engineering

IAGA News 2016 – Page 12 for his research in plasma physics. As a sci- Maha Ashour-Abdalla (1944 - 2016) entist at the Max Planck Institute for Extrater- restrial Physics in Garching, Germany he then contributed to important space missions such as Maha Ashour- HEOSA-2, Helios 1 and 2 by developing instru- Abdalla, a professor ments to study solar wind, low energy particles, of physics with exper- and electrons in the Earth’s magnetosphere. tise in space plasma physics and a passion In 1977 the Max Planck Society appointed him for teaching, died Scientific Member and director at the Max Planck May 1. She was 72. Institute for Aeronomy (MPAe) in Katlenburg- Lindau, Germany. He founded the institute’s Maha Ashour- department for Experimental Planetary Research Abdalla was born and which he led for 27 years. In this time, he molded raised in Alexandria, the MPAe into a significant and internationally Egypt. Maha ex- recognized partner of international space mis- celled in mathemat- sions. Under his lead the institute provided ma- ics and finished high school very young: She was jor contributions to the space missions Ulysses, in college at age 15. After completing her B.Sc. Giotto, Phobos, and Mars 96 among others. at Alexandria University in 1964, she pursued His last big success was ESA’s mission Rosetta graduate studies at Imperial College in London to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (even where she was awarded her Ph.D. in 1971. She though it reached its destination many years af- then became a research scientist at the Centre ter his retirement) and he can well be regarded National d’ Etudes des Telecommunications in as one of the “fathers” of Rosetta’s comet lander France, before moving to Los Angeles where she Philae, which landed on the comet in 2014 and was a geophysics researcher in the UCLA Insti- became the first spaceship to ever touch-down tute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics from on a comet. He contributed significantly to the 1976-1985. Maha was appointed as a Professor overall design of the lander, was responsible for in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astron- the entire landing gear and release mechanism, omy in 1985. She was elected a Fellow of both and devised one of Philae’s main scientific instru- the American Physical Society (1986) and the ments. Without his commitment and technical American Geophysical Union (1993). ingenuity Philae would never have flown. In the early 1980’s Maha founded the UCLA Helmut Rosebauer was not only an outstanding Space Plasma Simulation Group (SPSG), which scientist, but remained an innovative engineer pioneered using plasma simulations for magneto- throughout his career, who, for example, did not spheric physics in close coordination with space- hesitate to take the soldering iron himself. The craft data. Maha’s boundless enthusiasm for success of the projects led by Helmut Rosenbauer space science research resulted in her establish- is largely thanks to his perseverance, his inex- ing collaborations with scientists from around the haustible wealth of ideas and his tireless commit- world. In 1982 she initiated the International ment. He boldly tackled the “impossible”. His School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS- colleagues held him in high regard and affection- 1) along with colleagues from Japan and France. ately called him “chief”. They not only appreci- She helped organize the most recent ISSS-12 held ated his ingenious ideas, but also his thoughtful in Prague in 2015. and visionary leadership. Teaching at UCLA was one of Maha’s passions With Helmut Rosenbauer we have lost an excel- and her undergraduate courses were very popular. lent and imaginative researcher, a judicious insti- Maha’s excellence in teaching over the years re- tute director, an encouraging boss, and a good sulted in her receiving the Outstanding Teaching friend. Award 11 times from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The ultimate appreciation of Sami K. Solanki her teaching abilities was shown in January 2000 Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany when she was named one of the Top 20 UCLA Professors of the 20th Century by UCLA Today.

IAGA News 2016 – Page 13 During her tenure at UCLA, Maha supervised Theodore Wesley Speiser (1934 - 2016) eleven Ph.D. graduates as well as many postdoc- toral researchers. Ted Speiser passed Maha’s love for teaching and use of computers peacefully on April 8, intersected with her development of educational 2016 after complica- programs for students (K-12 and college) that uti- tions stemming from lized innovative digital technologies. In 1999 she a stroke. He was 81. founded and became the director of the UCLA Center for Digital Innovation (CDI) and oversaw Ted was Professor the development of numerous educational soft- Emeritus at CU Boul- ware products for science, math and computer der in Astrophysi- literacy. An early groundbreaking effort of CDI cal and Planetary was the launching of the Transpacific Interactive Sciences and con- Distance Education (TIDE) program, which al- sulted at the National lowed students at UCLA and at Kyoto University Oceanic and Atmo- in Japan to participate in face-to-face collabora- spheric Administra- tive lectures. tion’s Space Environment Laboratory in Boulder. As a Colorado native, Ted’s long and productive Over the years, Maha was principal and co- career began with the study of physics at Col- investigator on numerous grants from NASA and orado State University, progressed to a master’s NSF. Most recently, she was the UCLA principal at California Institute of Technology (1959), and investigator of an Interdisciplinary Scientist grant then a PhD at Penn State University where he for NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) was a student of James W. Dungey of Imperial mission, a four spacecraft mission launched in College, London, who was a consultant at Penn 2015 to study magnetic reconnection, one of the State’s Ionosphere Research Laboratory. From most critical problems in space physics. During this relationship Ted learned of the importance her extensive career she received many awards of of magnetic reconnection as an important factor recognition and served on numerous national and in magnetospheric dynamics and used and de- international advisory panels. veloped the theory to help understand particle Maha Ashour-Abdalla was a tireless worker and transport through the magnetosphere. prolific researcher. Until the very end she was ac- Ted then went to NASA Goddard Space Flight tively working on research and teaching. Maha Center as a post-doctoral researcher and used was charismatic, engaging, extremely loyal, and his considerable theoretical expertise in analyzing those who met her quickly came to appreciate the satellite observations of magnetospheric particles. force of her personality. Maha was truly a one of He subsequently spent a year with Dungey at Im- a kind individual who left an indelible impression perial College, London, before returning to and on everyone she met. She will be greatly missed. settling in Colorado as a professor in the then- She is survived by her husband Dr. Mohamed Department of Astrogeophysics. Ted also served Abdalla and her daughter Kenz Abdalla. as a 2nd Lt. in the US Army, and was also a A scholarship in Maha’s name, the Maha Fulbright Scholar and Humboldt award recipient Ashour-Abdalla Scholarship in Space Physics in Germany, where he later spent a sabbatical has been set up to encourage and support working with Karl Schindler at Ruhr-Universit¨at women who are starting graduate studies and Bochum, Germany. wish to focus on research in the area of space Ted’s research interests revolved around the mo- physics. Details are available at https://giving. tions of charged particles in plasmas undergoing agu.org/campaign/maha-ashour-abdalla- magnetic reconnection, the process whereby mag- scholarship-space-physics-fund/ netic fields from diverse sources connect with and

Mostafa El Alaoui disconnect from each other, transferring, storing, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and releasing energy and plasmas, explosively at University of California, Los Angeles, USA times, for example in solar flares and auroral sub- storms. CU graduate students fortunate enough

IAGA News 2016 – Page 14 to come under Ted’s influence enjoyed his full icated to investigating reconnection. MMS re- semester course on that topic, one of the first cently has resolved for the first time the existence such courses taught at any American university. of ”crescent” shaped distributions of meandering Ted is perhaps best known for describing what electrons, the result of electron ”Speiser orbits”. are universally known as the ”Speiser orbits” of He delighted in the pursuit of new scientific dis- charged particles in reconnecting magnetic field coveries, from solar physics to experimental treat- current sheets. After over 50years, these re- ments for his Parkinson’s illness. Ted also had main a key element of heliophysics and our knowl- an insatiable love for travel, hiking, cross-country edge about reconnection, which was identified by skiing, tennis, photography, music, football, and Dungey as the most fundamental process control- practical jokes. ling interactions between the Sun and magnetized Born November 23, 1934 in Del Norte, CO, Ted planets. attended high school in Fort Collins where he met In the 1960’s when Ted first investigated recon- and married Patricia McCrummen. Together they nection, it was still a controversial concept that raised three daughters. Ted greatly enjoyed his at times generated emotional arguments among two grand-daughters. Ted was a gifted, gener- advocates and skeptics. The lack of collisional ous, supportive and finally courageous colleague dissipation in space plasmas became a sticking and will be missed dearly by all those who have point, which was addressed by Ted in a paper en- known and worked with him. Thomas E Moore titled ”Conductivity without collisions or noise”. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, True to his particle motion studies, he pointed David S. Evans, Donald Fairfield, Terry G. Forbes, out that electric fields may exist in space without Donald J. Williams benefit of classically resistive media, a point that was also relevant to the acceleration of particles in aurora. Ted was clearly an advocate of the im- Vladimir ”Volodya” Nikolaevich Shuman portance of reconnection, a position which was (1942 - 2016) finally vindicated by a series of observations cul- minating with those from the International Sun Vladimir ”Volodya” Earth Explorer in the late 1970’s. Nikolaevich Shuman As part of his consulting work at NOAA and SEL, was born on February Ted was also active in numerous related areas of 18, 1942 in a small space plasma physics, from the formation of au- village, Zadereevka, roras on the dayside of Earth, to the structure of Northern Ukraine and motions of the magnetotail, and its current in a family of teach- sheets, to the explosive phenomena of auroral ers. During 1960- substorms, to the energetic particles whose pres- 1964 he studied geo- sure inflates the inner magnetosphere of Earth. physics in Kiev State Ted’s unique approach of building particle dis- University and in tribution functions and mapping them into and 1965-1967 worked through the magnetosphere, all the while com- out a debt for his study in Belorussian geophys- paring them to observations, lead to important ical expedition. In 1967 he entered the Institute insights to particle transport into and through- of Geophysics of Ukrainian National Academy of out this complex regime. Some of us, including Sciences, primarily as a PhD student, then sci- Thomas Detman, Jo Ann Joselyn, and Zdenka entist, senior scientist, then up to death as the Smith at NOAA/SEL remember Ted as a men- head of the Department of mathematical geo- tor and supportive friend, prone to deep physi- physics. His PhD thesis (1972) and works of cal and philosophical discussions over coffee and following two decades were devoted to solution doughnuts, in a more relaxed environment. of direct and inverse problems of electromagnetic sounding and its application to study of electrical Ted would have been thrilled by observations conductivity anomalies in the Earth’s crust. This from the recently launched NASA Magneto- was followed by the development of kinematic ap- spheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), which is ded- proach for quasi-stationary EM fields of natural

IAGA News 2016 – Page 15 and man-made sources, bimodal structure of the formatics, and member of four scientific boards. EM response functions and principles of optimal In 2001 he got Academia Award, and in 2014, selection of electromagnetic sounding systems, State Award for Scientific Achievements. For 20 and generation of toroidal magnetic field in the years, Volodya taught Mathematical physics and Earth’s atmosphere. He used precise impedance Theory of geoelectromagnetic fields in Kiev State boundary conditions and generalized relations for University and educated new generations of geo- impedances and the most important work in this physicists. field - introduction of mathematically rigorous lo- Volodya was a man devoted to his family: wife cal scalar impedances instead of commonly used Lyuba, sons Oleg and Dima and grandchildren. truncated tensor of impedance which do not have He had many friends. They loved him for his a precise mathematical basis. kindness, for his sense of humor, his lively con- Volodya had acquired a deep knowledge in physics versations and profound insight in theoretical geo- and mathematics and applied them to obtain so- physical problems. He was working until the end lution of geophysical problems and in the last two and died on November 5, 2016 when he was 74 decades, in explanation of phenomena and ex- years old. Volodya left deep imprints in our sci- periments in nature, which were not explainable entific landscape. We greatly admire his life and in the framework of traditional physics. Even will always cherish our memory of him. in the last year of his life, Volodya published Igor I. Rokityansky two articles: ”Spontaneous emission activity of Institute of Geophysics of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine lithosphere and seismoelectromagnetic phenom- ena” [Geophys. J., 2016, V.38, N2, 79-87] and ”Fractional dynamics and emissive activity of geosystems” [Geophys. J., 2016, V.38, N3, 72- Christian Sucksdorff (1928 - 2016) 83], which concentrated on a diffusion-relaxation component of lithospheric seismoelectromagnetic Professor Christian noise interpreted in terms of nonlinear dynamics (”Chris”) Sucksdorff, of non-equilibrium geomedium, This was a result the former head of interaction and concordance between mecha- of the Geophysics nisms of its self-organization that determine the Department of the trends of evolutionary processes development and Finnish Meteorolog- effects of dynamic relaxation, which reflect the ical Institute (FMI), role of fluctuations and dissipative factors. died on 23rd of Octo- Volodya was very decent and modest scientist and ber 2016 at the age colleague. Having deep insight in any problem of 88 years. he generously gifted ideas to colleagues without He was born in So- his co-authorship. Volodya did not repeat pub- dankyl¨a, Lapland, lication of his new results in many articles. He where his father thoroughly studied a problem, sent the results to Eyvind Sucksdorff (1899-1955) was the direc- a Journal and proceeded to the development of a tor of the Sodankyl¨aGeophysical Observatory new idea. Some of his ideas and results are too (1927-1945). In the late 1940s, Eyvind Sucks- new to be accepted and used at the present time. dorff restarted regional geomagnetic mapping of They will have to wait for an appropriate time for Finland as a project of the FMI. He educated their acceptance. his son as an assistant for geomagnetic measure- Prof.Dr. V. Shuman published approximately ments and so started his more than 40 years long 200 articles, 1 manual and monograph authored career at the FMI. Chris studied physics at the by V.N.Shuman, and M.G.Savin: ”Mathemat- Helsinki University and took his M.Sc. degree in ical Models in Geoelectrics” published by Kiev: 1956, Ph.D. dissertation in 1968. Eyvind Sucks- Naukova Dumka, in 2011. He was the leading ed- dorff died suddenly in 1955, and Chris Sucksdorff itor of Geophysical Journal and member of edito- took over all geomagnetic works after his father, rial board of the journals Geodynamics and Geoin- at the FMI, including development of the Nur- mij¨arvi Geophysical Observatory.

IAGA News 2016 – Page 16 During the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of the program of magnetic observations at the 1957-1958 activities in all branches of geophysics Charcot station located inside the Antarctic con- in Finland expanded substantially. Chris’s contri- tinent. He wintered at the Charcot Station with bution to the IGY was that a network of modern meteorologist Jacques Dubois and glaciologist auroral all-sky cameras was set up in North Fin- Claude Lorius in a small aluminium hut buried land. This achievement was the start of the space under the ice, in the vicinity of the south mag- weather monitoring at the FMI continuing up to netic pole. This exceptional experience was told present days. in a book (365 days under the ice of the Antarc- During the leadership of Chris Sucksdorff the tic, Gl´enat, 2008) and a film (Buried in the heart number of personnel at the Geomagnetism unit of Antarctica, DVD MK2, 2008). increased in about 30 years from a couple of sci- In 1968, Roland Schlich moved into the fields of entists to several tens of them. When Chris re- marine geology and geophysics and launched a tired in 1991 he left behind a Geophysics Depart- long-term research programme in the Southern ment where scientific research and projects were Indian Ocean. He received a Doctor of Science focused on several fields from geomagnetism to from the Universit´ePierre et Marie Curie (Paris space physics. VI) in 1974. He was the head of the CNRS Marine Sucksdorff was an active member of the IAGA Geophysical Laboratory (1972-1980) and served since early 1960s. He was the leader of sev- as deputy director for the Institut de Physique eral Working Groups. He was the co-author of du Globe de Paris (1976-1979). He moved to the the IAGA manual ”Guide for Magnetic measure- University of Strasbourg and served as director for ments and Observatory Practice” published in the Ecole et Observatoire de Physique du Globe 1996. IAGA nominated Chris Sucksdorff as an de Strasbourg (1980-1996). Honorary Member in 1993. He was member of Between 1960 and 1998, Roland Schlich pub- several Finnish scientific academies and societies. lished nearly 200 scientific articles and numerous We say goodbye to our colleague Chris Sucks- reports. He presented nearly 120 contributions, dorff. He will always have a special place in our many of them as invited speakers, in national minds. and international congresses. In addition, he con- ducted or co-directed 21 doctoral theses. Heikki Nevanlinna Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Roland Schlich was Treasurer (1982-1996) and Executive Secretary (1996-2002) of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG). He then became treasurer of the European Geosciences Union Roland Schlich (1932 - 2016) EGU (2002-2014). He has been an active mem- ber of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Re- Roland Schlich was search SCAR (Chairman of the Finance Commit- born in Metz in tee 1990-1998, then Vice-President 1998-2004), 1932. After grad- French National Committee for Geodesy and Geo- uating from the In- physics, CNFGG (Treasurer since 1988), French stitute of Physics of for Arctic and Antarctic Research CNFRA (Chair- the Globe of Stras- man). bourg and graduating from a postgraduate He was awarded several distinctions: Chevalier engineer in 1956, he of the Order of the Black Star (1958), Chevalier spent a short time in (1968) and Officer (1994) of the National Or- the petroleum indus- der of Merit (1985), Tchihatchef Prize awarded try. A Centre Na- by the French Academy of Sciences Paris (1975), tional de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) an- Prix Barrab´eawarded by the Geological Society nouncement seeking volunteers to carry out work of France (1976), L´eon Lutaud Prize of the Paris in Antarctica was the starting point of his scien- Academy of Sciences (1996), Prince of Asturias tific career. On the occasion of the International Award (2002). Geophysical Year (1957-1958), he was in charge Roland’s legacy is huge, and he will be missed by

IAGA News 2016 – Page 17 many. In 1971 she defended her thesis ”Application of More details are available at http://www.egu. magneto telluric and magnetovariational methods eu/people/roland-schlich/ for studying the structure of the crust and up- Mioara Mandea per mantle of the Middle Urals,” and in 1989 she (IAGA Secretary-General) defended her doctoral thesis ”Geoelectrical struc- ture of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle in the Urals region.” All her scientific activities had been Asa Grigor’evna D’yakonova (1936 - 2016) focused on solving the fundamental problem of re- lationships of tectonic structure of the lithosphere On the 7th of Oc- folded belts with the peculiarities of the distribu- tober 2016, Asa G. tion of the electrical conductivity of the matter Dyakonova passed at various depths. The results of A. Dyakonova away in her 81st are used in constructing the geodynamic model year after a long ill- that allows explanation of the processes of Ural’s ness. She was a well- forming as a large linear system of planetary char- known geophysicist, acter. She had written more than 150 papers and doctor of geological- 4 monographs. mineralogical sci- Asa G. was a purposeful patient scientist, enthu- ences, and a leading siastic and caring leader, with deep honesty and specialist in electro- was a very kind generous woman. All who knew magnetic methods. Asa, loved and respected her and will long re- th Asa G. was born on 7 of July 1936 in the village member her bright image. Elovka of Sverdlovsk region. After graduating from the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute in 1959 she Colleagues of the Institute of Geophysics, Ural Branch of the was admitted to the Institute of Geophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences the Ural Filial of the Academy of sciences USSR.

6 General information about IAGA

6.1 IAGA books series published by sults obtained by the IAGA five Divisions over Springer recent years. As well as providing useful refer- ence texts, the income to IAGA from Springer for this venture was used to support scientists to at- tend the last SA in Sopron, Hungary. The previ- ous Secretary-General devoted considerable time and effort to seeing this project through to com- pletion, and the current Secretary-General would like to thank warmly everyone who showed sup- port during the preparation of these manuscripts, and is grateful for the time taken by colleagues and friends to provide valuable information and data, comments and encouragement, as authors, editors or referees. One of the most important achievements of IAGA IAGA has published four practical guides to obser- during the last two years was to publish, with vation. These may be ordered from the Secretary- Springer, a series of five books, representing re-

IAGA News 2016 – Page 18 General and they are also available at the IAGA This manual and instruction book was written by web site. a group of active researchers, both professional and amateur. There are chapters giving practical IAGA Guide for Magnetic Measurements and Obser- advice for taking visual observations, photograph- vatory Practice ing the clouds with film or with video equip- by J. Jankowski and C. ment. A summary of observations from space Sucksdorff, 1996, 232 is included, as well as comments on the connec- pages, ISBN: 0-9650686- tion between noctilucent clouds, seen from the 2-5; Price: USD 50. ground, and the polar mesospheric clouds that so far have been measured only from orbit. Noc- This Guide provides com- tilucent clouds are seen in the summer months, prehensive information shining in the poleward sky at night-time. Mea- about how to organize and surements show that the clouds are higher than run a magnetic observa- any others. Lying at a height of 80-85 kilometres, tory and make magnetic the clouds mark a boundary between meteorol- measurements. The main ogy and space physics. This book is beautifully topics are: illustrated with photographs, and will help every- one recognize and appreciate these “sailors in the ❼ A brief description of the magnetic field of summer night”. the Earth This guide is out of print but it is available at ❼ Selection of observatory sites and layout the web site using the link ONC. (Prices do not include shipping and handling.) ❼ Magnetometers ❼ Absolute magnetic measurements 6.2 IAGA website ❼ Recording of magnetic variations Information on IAGA can be found at: ❼ Data processing http://www.iaga-aiga.org ❼ Testing and calibrating instruments 6.3 IAGA contact IAGA Guide for Magnetic Repeat Station Survey by L.R. Newitt, C.E. The Secretary-General is the main point of con- Barton, and J. Bitterly, tact for all matters concerning IAGA: 1997, 120 pages, ISBN: 0- 9650686-1-7; Price: USD Mioara Mandea 25. CNES This Guide provides a Directorate for Innovation, Applications and Sci- comprehensive description ence of the theoretical basis, 2, Place Maurice Quentin operational details, and in- 75039 Paris Cedex 01 strumentation for making France magnetic repeat station survey measurements. email: iaga [email protected]

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