December 2017 IAGA News No. 54

IAGA, the International Association of Geo- Foreword magnetism and Aeronomy, is the premier international scientific asso- ciation promoting the study of terrestrial This issue of IAGA and planetary magnetism and space physics News contains in- formation about the IAGA activi- Contents ties during the year 2017. The main 1 Message from the President 2 event of this year 2 The 2017 Joint IAPSO-IAMAS- was the 2017 Joint IAGA Scientific Assembly 3 IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA 2.1 Participation ...... 3 Assembly which offi- 2.2 Report of the Meetings of the IAGA cially closed on Fri- Conference of Delegates ...... 3 day 1st September 2.3 Executive meetings ...... 5 2017. The conference was a highly successful 3 2015 IAGA Awards 6 Joint Assembly organised at Cape Town’s CTICC, 3.1 IAGA Award for Interdisciplinary and the first of its kind between the three IUGG Achievements - Shen Kuo ...... 7 associations. The conference abstracts are avail- 3.2 IAGA Long Service Award ...... 7 3.3 IAGA Young Scientist Award .... 8 able on the IAGA web. The IAGA programme efficiently ran in a con- rd 4 The 3 IAGA (Summer) School 8 ference centre which provided an excellent space 5 Swarm mission – probing the geo- for poster viewing and the exhibition, as well as magnetic field 9 plenty of varied sized rooms for oral presenta- tions. This gave us the chance to catch up with 6 Reports on Meetings: IAGA- latest developments in our own research special- Sponsored or of IAGA interest 10 ities, as well as take in some of the more inter- 6.1 2nd Conference on Natural Dynamos 2017 10 disciplinary topics. Some major decisions taken th 6.2 6 LATINMAG Workshop ...... 11 during the Assembly by the IAGA Conference of 6.3 IAU Symposium 335 on “Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes Delegates and the Executive Committee are re- and Forecasts ...... 12 ported. The meeting provided many opportuni- ties for scientists to discuss different topics, over 7 In Memorium 14 breaks, poster sessions, and the IAGA special din- ner party! 8 General Information about IAGA 20 8.1 IAGA books series published by Springer 20 This issue also contains reports on IAGA ac- 8.2 IAGA website ...... 21 tivities of different kinds and provides informa- 8.3 IAGA contact ...... 21 tion about recently deceased IAGA scientists. In its present form, IAGA News contains only brief summaries of different activities and top- ics; the reader is referred to the IAGA website IAGA on the Web (www.iaga-aiga.org) for more details. Infor- http://www.iaga-aiga.org/ mation on activities at Division level can be found via each Division website.

IAGA News 2017 – Page 1 IAGA News is distributed – in its electronic form compact, well organized, with number of lecture – to the National Correspondents in the Mem- rooms of sufficient capacity. Therefore I believe ber Countries, to all IAGA officers and to scien- that the IAGA community will be very well rep- tists who have attended recent IAGA assemblies. resented. Please feel free to distribute IAGA news around, especially to national policy makers and leaders, whose decisions can affect the activities of IAGA scientists. Mioara Mandea (Secretary-General)

1 Message from the President

Dear friends and col- Vice President Monika Korte, President Eduard leagues, dear Ge- Petrovsky and Secretary-General Mioara Mandea at the omagnetists and Triple-Association dinner in Cape Town. Aeronomers, This year was very busy Because of the Scientific Assembly in Cape Town, with the highlight there were only a very few topical meetings spon- being our scientific sored by IAGA. I would like to mention the one nd assembly in Cape I attended – the 2 meeting on Natural Dy- Town. The assembly namos, held in South Moravia (in the Czech Re- was held jointly with public). The meeting, although rather small in IAMAS and IAPSO attendance, was very busy, with a good ratio of and provided an ex- senior and junior scientists from many different cellent milieu for interaction with colleagues from countries. The most promising is the fact that the southern and northern hemispheres as well as dynamo people have decided to hold these meet- with atmospheric scientists and oceanographers. ing on regular basis with a frequency of 4 years. And we may be proud that IAGA was well repre- Next year will be again very busy with topical th sented, with 557 out of 1356 abstracts. Despite meetings. Here I have to mention the 24 Elec- the initial worries due to the location and prob- tromagnetic Induction Workshop to be held in ably also reputation of the site, as well as not Helsingør, Denmark. This workshop was origi- the easiest of preparations of the programme, nally planned to be held in Turkey. However, due any fears were put to rest with the opening cer- to the present environment there following the emony. The whole Assembly went very well, in political events in the previous year, the leaders an excellent venue and with the great hospitality of Division VI, after thorough consideration and and efficient help of local staff. The Assembly discussion, decided to exchange the venues of the was also important from the point of view of the 2018 and 2020 workshops. There is no way this internal life of IAGA, as some few changes to decision should reduce the credit of our Turkish our Statutes and By-Laws were adopted. And I colleagues, nor discourage them from the prepa- have also to mention briefly the 3rd IAGA summer ration of a successful workshop in the future. school, perfectly organized by Monika Korte, at Last, but not least, I have to mention also an- the Hermanus observatory. In particular the as- other kind of political involvement. IAGA had sistance and involvement of the local Hermanus been greatly concerned to learn of the possible colleagues is greatly appreciated. And with the closure of the USGS Geomagnetism program, fol- last day of this Assembly we started on our way lowing the announcement of the US President’s to the next IUGG Assembly in Montreal in 2019. budget request for fiscal year 2018. Therefore, in I had the opportunity to visit the Montreal venue June 2017 an Internet petition was launched, urg- in September. The Palais de Congres is very ing the US authorities to consider the importance nice, perfectly designed to host such an event; of the USGS Geomagnetism program for the US

IAGA News 2017 – Page 2 and for international scientific communities and bers, division and working group leaders, as well society in general, and to take corresponding ac- as many other helpers for your great assistance tion in revision of the 2018 budget to continue and active approach. I am looking forward to this important program. According to recent 2018 with its topical meetings, as well as to the news, the U.S. House of Representatives has re- preparation of an attractive programme for the stored the cuts proposed by the Administration to 2019 IUGG Assembly, where 100 years of IUGG the USGS Geomagnetism program and to other will be celebrated. Finally, let me wish you all the Natural Hazards programs. best in your work, as well as in your personal life, and I look forward to seeing you again.

To conclude, despite sometimes a rather turbu- Eduard Petrovsky lent situation, IAGA is doing well. I am very (President) grateful to all the Executive Committee mem-

2 The 2017 Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Scientific Assembly

2.1 Participation The agenda was approved with no objections or sug- gestions for changes and the President called the Lasting a full 5 days, the Joint Assembly had a meeting to order and welcomed all the delegates. total of 1038 registrations although a no-show (despite having paid up) of 57 and a total of 29 Moment of remembrance for IAGA members de- accompanying persons registered. The distribu- ceased tion of the participants between the three Asso- The President led the remembrance of deceased ciations was as following. members in 2015 and 2016, and the delegates stood for a minute of silence. Int. Assoc. of Geomagn. & Aeronomy 383 Int. Assoc. of Meteorology & Atm. Sci. 339 Approval of the Minutes of the 2015 Conference of Delegates Int. Assoc. of Phys. Sci. of the Ocean 230 The minutes of the 2015 CoD were approved unani- A total of 64 country registrations were received with mously. delegates from 54 countries on site, and the ”Top 5” participanting delegations were: Report of the President The Report included the following items and activi- USA 157 ties: UK 109 France 45 China 70 ❼ In 2015: Germany 69 Division VI was created at the IUGG 2015 Assembly in Prague. In the 2015 Assembly, IAGA led 6 joint sym- 2.2 Report of the Meetings of the IAGA posia and was involved in 7 others; 622 of the Conference of Delegates attendees had IAGA affiliation. IUGG 2015 was subsequently voted Congress of the Year th First Conference of IAGA Delegates: Tue, 29 for Prague. August, 1800-2000

The Secretary-General conducted a Roll Call of the ❼ In 2016: Chief Delegates from all IAGA member countries. The President attended the IUGG EC meeting This established that 18 Chief Delegates with vot- in Paris, in which the IUGG 2016-2023 Strate- ing rights were present. gic Plan was discussed. IAGA sponsored a

IAGA News 2017 – Page 3 number of topical meetings, which are re- ❼ Several young scientists were nominated for ported in the IAGA News. An EMI Workshop the Young Scientist Award (YSA), which will was planned for 2018, to be held in Turkey. be presented in this Assembly. The Outstand- ing Long Service Medal will be awarded to J. Rasson; the Shen Kuo Award to J. Forbes. ❼ In 2017: ❼ A meeting of the President, Vice President, The IAGA Book is now on contract with Cam- and Secretary General was held in February, bridge University Press. EC members are in to discuss the statutes and bylaws, the prepa- charge of the five parts in the book. Secretary- ration for the 2017 Joint Assembly, and the General specific activities in the past two years IAGA Book). The sponsorship of topical meet- include the production of the IAGA News, ings continues. which now has a full collection online; manage- An online petition was organized against the ment of the IAGA account; preparation of the proposed reduction of funding to the USGS Tri-Association meeting, in which the contri- and closure of the USGS Geomagnetism Pro- butions of symposium conveners and division gram. The Internet petition started on June leaders are much appreciated. 8th, and garnered 1194 supporters as of Au- gust 28th, 2017. The US Congress restored Report of the Finance Committee (Michel Menvielle) th the cuts on July 20 . In the absence of M. Menvielle, the Financial Com- rd The 3 IAGA International Summer School mittee (FC) Report was presented by J. Forbes, as a was held in Hermanus in the past week (the former member of the IAGA EC. The report cov- week preceding the present Assembly). ers the period of January 1st, 2015 to December For the EMI 2018 Workshop originally planned 31st, 2016, and was prepared based on documen- to be held in Turkey, the leaders of Division VI tation provided by the Secretary-General. The FC have decided to exchange venue with Scandi- was mandated to ensure IAGA’s fulfilment of IUGG’s navia (the original 2020 venue) in view of the commitment to legal auditing. The Committee rec- current political unease in Turkey. ommends an external audit for 2015-2018 in the first The present 2017 Joint Assembly has 1012 half of 2019. registrations so far, including 393 affiliated with IAGA. These attendance figures are very Recommendations: positive and exceed organizers’ original expec- ❼ tation. IAGA needs to continue book contracts as a potential source of revenue;

❼ IAGA has to maintain a low level of reserve Report of the Secretary-General for the future; and if the balance as of Jan The Report included the following items and activi- 1st, 2018 exceeds 5 %, increase the support of ties: science activities and new outreach;

❼ IAGA has to continue to organize the Summer ❼ A new IAGA domain has been created, to help School before each Assembly (and to consider improve IAGA’s visibility online as an Associ- posting the related tutorials on line). ation of IUGG.

rd ❼ The present Executive Committee has held Brief Report on the 3 IAGA Summer School several meetings since the election: one in The 3rd IAGA School was hosted by SANSA, at Her- 2015 (after CoD2 in IUGG 2015; two addi- manus (130 km from Cape Town). Calls for nomina- tional meetings were held before during IUGG tions of applicants were sent to Division Chairs and 2015 before CoD2); two in 2016, via telecon- WG Chairs and via several mailing lists in September ferences, and four in 2017, 1 via teleconference 2016. In total, 8 female and 12 male students at- earlier and 3 in the present Scientific Assembly. tended, including students from Europe (6), Russia Decisions are generally made by email. (3), Asia (4), North and South America (2), Africa and the Middle East, including South Africa (4). The ❼ Topical meetings sponsored since IUGG 2015 School included one lecture session for each of the include one in 2015, six in 2016, and three in Divisions, with a practical session in some cases, and 2017. an outing (see detail report in the following).

IAGA News 2017 – Page 4 Brief Report on the Divisions and Commissions ac- accepted unanimously. tivities The six chairs of IAGA divisions and of two commis- Secretary-General re-election sions (ICDC and ICDH) sumarised the main activities Mioara Mandea was re-elected for another 4-year achieved over the last two years. term, unanimously.

Presentation of 2021 IAGA-IASPEI bids (India and Resolutions Committee Portugal) The EC proposed the following to be appointed to Representatives from both India and Portugal gave a the Resolution Committee: Archana Bhattacharyya presentation on their 2021 IAGA-IASPEI bids. Monika Korte, and Erwan Th´ebault. The CoD unan- Highlights of the India Bid: August 1-7, 2019, imously accepts the EC proposal for the Resolution at Hyderabad International Convention Center Committee membership. (HICC), Hyderabad; 450/500/600 USD (early- bird/regular/on-site) registration; 30 USD abstract st fee; registration waiver for 100 young scientists; sig- Second Conference of Delegates: Thu 31 Au- nificant national support from INSA, CSIR, MOES, gust, 1800-1930 Industry, Academia etc. Highlights of the Portugal Bid: Venue - Pavil- The Secretary-General conducted a Roll Call of the ion of Portugal, Lisbon (15 min from city cen- Chief Delegates from all IAGA member countries. ter; 10 min from airport); Date - alternative This established that 17 Chief Delegates with vot- dates available; C-IN (organization vendor of 2015 ing rights were present. IUGG) will handle conference organization includ- ing abstract submission; LOC - includes several Approval of the Agenda IAGA and IASPEI liaisons and Division/WG Chairs; The agenda was approved with no objections or sug- 500/570/640 EUR (early-bird/regular/on-site) reg- gestions for changes. istration, reduced rates for student registration; 50 EUR abstract fee; 30-40 free student registration and Report of the meetings of the EC during the grants of 500 EUR each for up to 20 delegates. Assembly The Executive Council members had three meetings Changes of Statutes and By-Laws during the assembly. The discussed topics are under- Since the IUGG in Perugia, the EC consists of the lined in the following. President, the Vice President (VP), and the Secre- tary General (SG) as Officers, in addition to the Past President and the members at large. 2.3 Executive meetings In view of the increasingly high workload for the three Officers, it is proposed to increase the number of VP EC Meeting 1 was focused on the preparation of to two starting in 2019, and to establish a new posi- CoD1. The discussions and decisions during this tion of Treasurer; this position should be based in an meeting were presented in CoD 1. Euros country, as current IAGA revenues, expenses, EC Meeting 2 was focused on the preparation of and financial assets are denominated in Euros. CoD2 and covered the following topics: Currently, changes of Statutes and By-Laws are to be ❼ th discussed and adopted at a General Assembly (GA), The IAGA Book for the IUGG 100 Anniver- and to take effect in the next GA. As a result, new sary: This book has 5 parts, each consisting statutes and by-laws often cannot be implemented of multiple chapters. Two EC members are in in a sufficiently timely manner. It is therefore pro- charge of each part. The first drafts for about posed to allow discussion and adoption of changes half of the chapters are about 90 % completed, at either a Scientific Assembly (SA) or a GA, and to with the rest expected to be finished by the have such changes come into force at the end of the end of September/October. next Assembly. ❼ IAGA involvements in the 100th Anniversary The motion to create the positions of Second Vice celebration: Plan will include events to high- President and Treasurer on the Executive Commit- light the history of IAGA and participation in tee, effective at the end of the 2019 IUGG GA was IUGG-led projects

IAGA News 2017 – Page 5 ❼ IUGG 2019: The discussion centered on hav- Election of the IAGA-IASPEI 2021 location ing strong sessions with “critical mass” by en- A vote was held to elect the location of the 2021 couraging Divisions to combine proposed ses- Assembly. A total of 17 votes were cast by the ND: sions with similar or overlapping themes. 7 for Hyderabad, and 10 for Lisbon. ❼ Public outreach video on IAGA: The possibility The final decision on the selection of venue will be of commissioning a short (2-3 minutes) video made jointly by the IASPEI and IAGA Executives, for public outreach was discussed, with the de- possibly by the end of September, based in part on cision to explore the feasibility and available the result of this vote. options further. EC Meeting 3 was dedicated to discussions Preparation for election of Officers for the 2019 - concerning the Assembly. 2023 Quadrennium The EC was tasked to establish a Nomination Com- Resolutions of the 2017 Scientific Assembly mittee, and to prepare for the election of a new (addi- M. Korte (Resolution Committee Chair) tabled two tional) VP, a new Treasurer, a Young Scientist rep- resolutions that were submitted to the Resolu- resentative, and Division Leaders in the 2019-2023 tion Committee for consideration. The resolution Quadrennium. on Magnetic Satellite Mission Constellation was adopted.

3 2015 IAGA Awards

On Thursday 30th August each association hosted their medal awards. For the first time, IAGA organised a special event, including the ceremony itself and an invited lecture given by the Shen Kuo awardee, Jeffrey Forbes.

IAGA President Eduard Petrovsky, Vice-President Monika Korte, Young Scientist awardees Emma Douma, Katarzyna Dudzisz and Federico Gasperini, Long Service awardee Jean Rasson, IAGA Secretary General Mioara Mandea and Shen Kuo medalist Jeffrey Forbes (from left to right) at the IAGA Award Ceremony. 3.1 IAGA Award for Interdisciplinary mosphere tidal variability due to latent heat re- Achievements - Shen Kuo lease in the tropical troposphere (1999, 2008) which plays an important role in the tidal variabil- ity in the ionospheric dynamo region (2008). Jef- The Award aims at recognizing and acknowledg- frey Forbes, has thus been instrumental in also il- ing outstanding scientists whose activities and luminating the role played by tropospheric forcing achievements cross several fields of research cov- of the ionosphere-thermosphere system in caus- ered by IAGA. The Shen Kuo Medal for interdis- ing day-to-day variability of the ionosphere dur- ciplinary achievements was presented to ing magnetically quiet periods, which is also an important component of space weather. He has Jeffrey Forbes (USA) played a leading role in a number of international Jeffrey Forbes has made programs dealing with these topics. very important contribu- For his outstanding achievements, Jeffrey Forbes tions on a broad range of has been honoured by the American Geophysical topics that are essential to Union and the European Geophysical Union. He the advancement of aeron- became a Fellow of AGU in 2008 and was awarded omy and our understand- the Julius-Bartels Medal by EGU in 2016. ing of how aeronomy im- pacts geomagnetic obser- Jeffrey Forbes receives Shen Kuo Medal to recog- vations. nize his scientific achievements, including studies of the upper atmosphere environments of Earth, Jeffrey Forbes has been scientifically active for Mars, and other planets; coupling of these envi- over 45 years and during that period, he has pub- ronments to lower altitudes and to solar variabil- lished more than 270 papers in refereed journals. ity; geomagnetic storm effects on satellite drag His path-breaking 1976 paper on the electro- variability; the vertical propagation of tides and dynamic effects of atmospheric solar tides and planetary waves in planetary atmospheres, and their relationship to the Global Sq current sys- their electrodynamic and chemical effects. tem and his 1981 review paper on the Equatorial Electrojet, continue to provide the basis for un- derstanding tidal-ionospheric coupling. Hence 3.2 IAGA Long Service Award Jeffrey Forbes’ research is not only important from the point of view of Aeronomic phenom- ena, but also for understanding the contribution The IAGA Long Service Award in recognition of ionospheric currents to daily variations of the of valued services to the IAGA community over geomagnetic field recorded at a large number of many years was presented to observatories around the globe as well as mea- sured in space by satellites such as CHAMP, Jean Rasson (Belgium) Swarm satellites. Jean Rasson has worked at the Observatory Dourbes Starting with his 1973 study of thermospheric for 40 years and he is the density variations associated with auroral electro- head of its geomagnetism jet activity, he has played a leading role in quanti- unit with direct responsi- fying thermospheric neutral density and wind re- bility for two geomagnetic sponse to severe geomagnetic storms using satel- observatories in Belgium. lite observations, and modelling them. These pa- Under his tenure, Dourbes pers, as also his work on the equatorial penetra- became a centre for absolute instrument and tion of magnetic disturbance effects in the ther- variometer development, comparison and test- mosphere and ionosphere are very important con- ing. The AUTODIF and the INTERMAGNET tributions to the study of magnetospheric forcing 1-Second variometer are examples for that. Ad- of the ionosphere-thermosphere system, which ditionally, he was interested in the traceability of forms an important part of space weather. He measurement standards for the Earth’s magnetic also did pioneering work on identifying upper at- field and in the application of geomagnetic mea-

IAGA News 2017 – Page 7 surements for society, e.g. in aeronautics. world and repeat stations, and his devoted work Jean Rasson has strongly contributed to the in- to make Dourbes observatory a centre for ab- ternational efforts for global monitoring of Earth’s solute instrument and variometer development, magnetic field by means of geomagnetic observa- comparison and testing. tories and repeat stations. He organised the IAGA Workshops on Geomagnetic Observatory Instru- 3.3 IAGA Young Scientist Award ments, Data Acquisition and Processing in 1994 and in 2016, as well as regional conferences for During the Award Ceremony, certificates were the exchange of geomagnetic observatory exper- presented by the President to the winners of tise. For 17 years, Jean Rasson has contributed IAGA’s ”Young Scientist Award”. More informa- to INTERMAGNET and he was chairing its Op- tion about the workshops in which they partici- erations Committee since 2003. pated and nominated can be found on the IAGA His detailed knowledge on both modern and clas- web site. sical geomagnetic instrumentation and his com- mand of several languages make him a competent Emma Douma (NZ) teacher and helper to numerous colleagues world- wide. He has supported initiatives like Interlatam Nominated by the VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of as well as many geomagnetic observatories and Ionospheres and Magnetospheres meeting (2016). researchers in numerous countries, including Ar- gentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Indonesia, Mex- Katarzyna Dudzisz (PL) ico, Mozambique, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines and Nominated by the New Trends in Geomagnetism South Korea. He is also involved in geomagnetic - Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism observatories in Antarctica and in geomagnetic (2016). repeat station work. Jean Rasson receives the IAGA Long Service Federico Gasperini (USA) Award in recognition of his efforts continuously Nominated by the IAGA/ICMA/SCOSTEP dedicated to produce the highest quality geomag- Workshop on Vertical Coupling in the netic field data in many observatories around the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System (2016).

4 The 3rd IAGA (Summer) School

The third IAGA School was sponsored by and ing Group leaders. Altogether 6 topics across took place at SANSA Space Science in Her- all the disciplines of IAGA were covered by lec- manus, South Africa, from 20-26 August 2017 tures given by experts in their fields: Space and (the week before Scientific Assembly of IAPSO- Magnetospheric Physics (Edgar Bering, Houston, IAMAS-IAGA). Finally realizing that it never is Texas, USA), Space Weather (Michael Kosch, summer all over the world at the same time Hermanus, South Africa), The Ionosphere (Zama (in fact this year it would have been a win- Katamzi-Joseph and Pierre Cilliers, Hermanus, ter school) it was decided to drop the term South Africa), Electromagnetic Induction Meth- “summer” henceforth and call the events IAGA ods and Applications (Stephan Thiel, Adelaide, Schools. This year the school was attended Australia), Geomagnetic Main Field and Core Dy- by 19 post-graduate students from 15 countries namics (Nicolas Gillet, Grenoble, France), Pa- worldwide (including e.g., Algeria, Brazil, Mex- leomagnetism: Deciphering the records of the ico, India, Japan, Russia, Poland, UK, South prehistoric field (Gillian Turner, Wellington, New Africa). The attendees included students nom- Zealand). Lectures were accompanied by practi- inated for the IAGA Young Researcher Award, cal projects that the students worked on in groups or nominated by the IAGA Division and Work- and presented in excellent group talks on the last

IAGA News 2017 – Page 8 afternoon. Both the students and the lecturers gether in a guesthouse nearby. Coffee breaks and gave very positive feedback on the event. In- most meals were provided by catering at SANSA teractions among students and between students and joined by students and lecturers and used for and lecturers were very friendly and informal and lively discussions. Last but not least, a half day friendships and networks were formed. This was outing to a nearby Penguin colony provided relief facilitated by the convenient location where all from the hard work over the week and another students stayed in student accommodation on opportunity for international socializing and net- the institute premises and all lecturers stayed to- working.

IAGA School students and some lecturers at SANSA Space Science in Hermanus.

The main aims, increasing the visibility and at- cal Union (EGU), who provided valuable financial tractiveness of IAGA to young researchers, provid- support. We deeply thank SANSA Space Science ing the young promising researchers with overview for local organization and for providing lecture of the activities carried out within IAGA across all facilities, well-tested projects and transportation fields of research related to the Earth’s magnetic between Cape Town and Hermanus.

field and aeronomy, and to facilitate establishing Monika Korte new personal contacts were fully accomplished. IAGA Vice-President We are very grateful to the European Geophysi-

5 Swarm mission – probing the geomagnetic field

Four years into operations since its launch in and the space segment constellation orbit geom- 22 November 2013, the Swarm constellation is etry evolves in line with expectation. providing excellent measurements of the Earth’s The important 2017 Swarm-related meetings magnetic field and associated plasma environ- were the Fourth Swarm Science Meeting or- ment. The user community is achieving unprece- ganised at the Park Lodge Hotel in Banff, Al- dented scientific results and exploring new appli- berta, Canada from 20-24 March 2017 (http: cations. All three satellite platforms are perform- //swarm2017.org/) and the 7th Data Quality ing very well, essentially free of any anomalies, Workshop organised in Delft on 9-12 October

IAGA News 2017 – Page 9 2017, hosted by the Delft University of Technol- The 7th Data Quality Workshop was an important ogy. meeting to summarise the status of present and The main aim of the Fourth Swarm Science Meet- perspectives for future Swarm activities. Presen- th ing was to address science, applications and ser- tations of the 7 Swarm Data Quality Workshop vices in the context of its Earth Explorer series of can be downloaded via Swarm DQW FTP site. missions, ranging in focus from the Earth’s outer Finally, let us note that the ESA Member States core to the magnetosphere. Specifically, as the participating in the Earth Observation Envelope Swarm mission completed at time of that meet- Programme have given a nice birthday present to ing three years of extremely successful science op- the Swarm mission. At its 172nd meeting on 15- erations, the meeting brought together the wider 16 November the Earth Observation Programme international scientific community to explore and Board approved the extension of Swarm until the develop scientific and application synergies and end of 2021. The mission team is working to im- to propel the mission into its next phase. Indeed, plement extensions of all the relevant activities the Banff science meeting provided the platform under contract, as well as a good number of new for around 400 scientists and experts to partici- ones. pate in discussions on new science and discoveries The message to users is that through this deci- about our planet thanks to extraordinary satellite sion the Swarm ecosystem will continue to grow missions. The meeting was also important for col- in the years ahead. lecting thoughts and recommendations for ESA’s Giuseppe Ottavianelli, Rune Floberghagen (ESA) consideration in the evolution of Swarm mission. Mioara Mandea (CNES)

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

6.1 2nd Conference on Natural Dynamos and Europe) attended the conference. It was im- 2017 portant that our conference was attractive in par- ticular to young researchers: 14 graduate and un- dergraduate students took part in the conference. Valtice, Czech Republic, June 25 – July 1, 2017 Scientific part of the conference consisted of five The 2nd Conference on Natural Dynamos (http: oral sessions (included a tutorial lecture for each //valtice.ig.cas.cz/index.html) was held session) and three afternoon poster sessions. The on June 25 – July 1, 2017, in Valtice, Czech Re- posters were introduced by short, 2-minute oral public. It was dedicated to hydromagnetic dy- introductions. In total, 62 abstracts were re- namos, magnetoconvection and various hydro- ceived, they corresponded either to oral or poster magnetic processes acting in the Earth’s core, presentations and are provided in the Programme planetary cores, in the Sun and other stars, in and Book of Abstracts. galaxies, accretion discs and other astrophysi- The 2nd Conference on Natural Dynamos en- cal objects, and also laboratory hydromagnetic abled the dynamo community (geophysicists, as- and dynamo experiments. The conference was trophysicists, applied mathematicians, physicists co-organised by the Institute of Geophysics of working on dynamo laboratory experiments) to the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Repub- meet and engage in intense discussions, extend- lic, Prague, the Earth Science Institute of Slo- ing beyond the scientific sessions. International vak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and the Programme Committee agreed that the quality Department of Astronomy, Physics of the Earth of the presentations of students was in general and Meteorology of the Faculty of Mathematics, very high, and Certificate of Excellence for the Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava. In to- best student presentation was issued to Valeria tal, 59 participants, including 2 accompanying Shumaylova (Cambridge University, U.K.) for her persons, from 9 countries worldwide (the USA

IAGA News 2017 – Page 10 presentation ”Coarsening magnetic instability in lated flow”. domains of large aspect ratio: ABC and modu-

Participants of the 2nd Conference on Natural Dynamos in front of the castle of Valtice (Czech Republic).

In addition, the conference was devoted to an- and the general assembly. The program ended niversaries of Jozef Brestensk´yand Pavel Hejda, Friday with a geological excursion. who organised previous dynamo conferences. We The main participation was from Mexico, but rd consider organising the 3 Conference on Natural there were 6 colombian students from Mexi- Dynamos in four–five years in Slovakia. can institutions, and one Brasilian students from J. Simkaninˇ UNAM. The majority of the participants were On behalf of Local Organizing Committee from Mexico, with 20 Mexican students, 7 from Colombia, 6 from Argentina, 6 from Brasil, and one from Egypt. The students are 14 doctoral th 6.2 6 LATINMAG Workshop students, 15 Masters students, and eleven under- graduate students. Equador had its first partici- Quer´etaro, Mexico, September 18 - 22, 2017 pation in LATINMAG. Notable was the absence of The event took place at the Juriquilla Campus of participants from Chile and Venezuela who have the Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, been at other LATINMAG events. un Quer´etaro, Mexico, at the Centro Acad´emico Five conferences were included in the program, Cultural. In the congress there was a total of given by Harald Bohnel (UNAM CGEO), Jaime 80 participants, 40 of which were students, 36 Urrutia Fucugauchi (Colegio Nacional), Mar- researchers and 4 invited speakers. The pro- tin Chadima (AGICO), Javier Pav´on (U. Com- gram included one day that was dedicated to plutense de Madrid) y Fernando Corbo (CONA- Young scientists and students, with workshops CyT). An invited talk was presented by Augusto by Harald Bohnel, Roberto Molina, Jaime Pavon, Rapalini (UBA, Argentina) who made a sem- andMartin Chadima. The participants repre- blance of the work of Rub´en Somoza, Latinmag sented nine countries: Argentina, Brasil, Colom- member who passed earlier this year. The pro- bia, Spain, Ecuador, M´exico, Czech Republic, and gram consisted of 8 regular sessions with 40 oral United States. The participation by country was presentations and 28 posters. The sessions in- lead by 38 Mexicans. The talks and posters were cluded rock magnetism, geomagnetism, geophys- presented the following three days (September ical prospecting, paleomagnetism, environmental 19, 20 and 21), with 8 sessions, five invited talks,

IAGA News 2017 – Page 11 magnetism, and archeomagnetism. casts” held at the University of Exeter, UK in July During the event the best two oral presenta- 17-21 2017, linked various aspects of research in tions and the best poster were awarded. The solar, heliospheric and planetary physics, empha- best presentation awards were for Daniela Mej´ıa sizing cross-disciplinary developments. The sym- (Colombia) with the presentation “Biomonitoreo posium brought together scientific experts from magn´etico de la calidad del aire en el valle Aburr´a various pertinent disciplines to the meeting from (Colombia) a partir del uso de Tillandsia recur- all over the world around the topic of Space vata”, and Luis Valderrain Rojas (Mexico) for Weather. A number of excursions were organized the talk “Paleomagnetic study of the volcanic se- to local facilities and places of interest. An ac- quences from the proto-gulf formations, Sonora, tive parallel education/public outreach program southern regi´on (Guaymas), Mexico.” The award on the first 3 days engaged 14 of the participants to the best poster was given to Jeanine A Carmo and members of the LOC to share their enthusi- (Brasil) who presented “Estratigraf´ıa magn´etica asm about space weather with schools, teachers ∼ do Furo DSDP- 511 (Plato das Falklands) du- and the general public ( 300 people). rante o Barremiano-Aptiano”. We welcomed 185 participants from 30 differ- Roberto Molina Garza On behalf of Local Organizing Committee ent countries and 21 accompanying persons, ex- hibitors or public lecturer. Particular notewor- thy was the relatively high (36.8%) proportion 6.3 IAU Symposium 335 on “Space of women attendees, one of the highest ever en- Weather of the Heliosphere: Pro- countered at a large meeting in our field. cesses and Forecasts

Exeter, UK, July 17-21 2017 The recent IAU Symposium 335 on “Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Fore-

Attendees of IAU Symposium 335 on “Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts” in Exeter (UK).

Abstracts and Sessions: The overall scientific pro- as well as the town hall and round-table discus- gram was represented by a total of 204 abstracts. sions, plenary summaries, and a few opening and Of those presented abstracts, 122 were posters closing talks. 10 chairs led the sessions and pro- and 82 were in the oral program. The oral pro- vided lively question and answer sessions. The gram consisted of 26 invited talks by leaders in scientific program consisted of 8 sessions, sched- the field and 56 oral contributed presentations, uled over 4.5 days. Each session topic was ex-

IAGA News 2017 – Page 12 plored by 2 to 4 invited talks, contributed talks forecast the space weather of the Earth and the and poster sessions. All oral presentations were heliosphere is of paramount importance for our plenary, except for the last theme where we had high-technology dependent society and for the a common plenary and a split in 2 round tables. current rapid developments in our knowledge and Thanks to the rich representation and optimal exploration (robotic and human) of the Solar Sys- (scientific, regional, gender) diversity of the SOC, tem. Space weather is not just important at Earth balance was respected in the selection of the 26 and this symposium brought a vast range of ex- invited speakers and the general scientific pro- pertise together, discussing the activity and winds gram. The symposium therefore gave a balanced of other Suns and the effects on planets and other international overview of the general advances in objects of the solar system such as Pluto. space weather, focusing on the key topics of so- To encourage interactions and networking be- lar drivers and activity levels (session 1); Solar tween attendees, and to foster the excitement wind and heliosphere (2); Impact of solar wind, of younger colleagues in presenting their work, structures and radiation on and within terres- a poster competition for students was organised trial and planetary environments (3 and 4); Long- with judges assigned among the senior partici- term trends and predictions for space weather (5); pants. The poster competition engaged 28 young Challenges and strategy plans for Earth and the scientists and 34 judges, and 5 worthy winners heliosphere (6); Forecasting models (7); Space were celebrated during the conference dinner, 2 weather monitoring, instrumentation, data and of which issued from Session 4, a traditionally services (8). IAGA-oriented session. The poster winners were: In the last few years, we have seen transforma- in joint fourth, Rimpei Chiba (Session 4 - Japan) tions of the UK political landscape, all in re- and Vaibhav Pant (Session 5 - India); in joint sponse to space weather being on the national second, Nadia Hussain (Session 4 - Pakistan and risk register (e.g. the Met Office centre). The Canada) and Marianna Korsos (Session 7 - UK); Symposium opened with a Welcome Introduction and in first place, Sushant Mahajan (Session 5 - by Mike Hapgood, chair of the Space Environ- India and US). ment Impact Expert Group [SEIEG] that advises Thanks to IAU and cosponsors such as IAGA, we the Cabinet Office on Space Weather. Space supported 47 scientists from around the world to weather is increasingly recognised as an interna- come and present their work. The IAGA funds tional challenge faced by several communities. In awarded were specifically attributed to support 3 Session 6, Ian Mann (Canada) led a town hall young scientists from Nepal, Mexico and France, session from the United Nations Expert Group respectively, whose presentations were pertinent on Space Weather: “Strategy for Developing an to IAGA disciplines – the IAGA contributions rep- International Framework for Space Weather Ser- resenting on average 34% of their total awards. vices (2018-2030)”. On the last day, Session 8 in- The post-conference materials are posted on cluded two parallel round tables RT1 “Data Han- the website at: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/ dling and Assimilation” and RT2 “Relationships iaus335/media/ with the ‘civil’ society”, with the findings sum- marized in the plenary by invited speakers Terry Claire Foullon Onsager (USA) and Lee-Anne McKinnell (South On behalf of Local Organizing Committee Africa). The ability to understand, monitor and 7 In Memorium

Andrei Alexandru “Andy” Soare (1931 – Andrei Soare left behind when he retired, in 2009, 2017) a priceless legacy: a continuously running ob- servatory - INTERMAGNET member, and few Unfortunately, among oth- young scientists who will have always a special ers, we have lost Andrei A. place in their hearts for him. He has contributed Soare on October 16, 2017 to the development of Romanian geomagnetic re- at the age of 85 years, and search deserving a place in our memory. Anca Isac the benefit of his contribu- Geological Institute of Romania, Bucarest tion, because of the lead- ing role he played in the life of our Association, as Na- tional Correspondent. In Attia Abdel-Salam Ashour (1924 – 2017) 1954, after he graduated the Faculty of Geophysics Professor Attia Abdel- - Institute of Mines of Bucharest, Andy joined Salam Ashour of the the Romanian Geomagnetic Observatory – Surlari Department of Mathe- (SUA), a job he loved, retiring with over 50 years matics, Faculty of Sci- of service as the head of it. ence, Cairo Univer- sity, peacefully passed Andrei Soare was a high-calibre geophysicist, be- away on 17 April 2017 ginning his scientific career with his main men- at his Dokki residence tor, Acad. Liviu Constantinescu, the founder of in Cairo, aged 93. the Surlari National Geomagnetic Observatory, in 1943. He took over all geomagnetic works, Born on 13 Septem- including development of observatory practice, ber 1924 in Damietta, since 1954, and expanded substantially the ge- Egypt, Ashour gradu- st omagnetic activities starting with International ated from the Faculty of Science, Fouad 1 Uni- Geophysical Year. He was maintaining a close versity (later to become Cairo University) in 1944. and fruitful collaboration with his master, with He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Mathematics fundamental contributions especially for spatial from the Imperial College in London, UK, in 1948. and temporal dynamics of the terrestrial magnetic His tutors were no less than the famous scien- field and long-term monitoring of the planetary tists Sydney Chapman and Albert Price. In 1967, magnetic field on the Romanian territory. Andrei Ashour was granted the D.Sc. Degree in Math- Soare published hundreds scientific articles and ematics from London University, thus becoming reports as well as numerous contributions in na- one of the very few Egyptians to hold such a de- tional and international congresses. In addition, gree. he co-directed tens of master theses, as associate Ashour’s career at the Department of Mathemat- professor at the Department of Geophysics, Fac- ics started in 1944 as a teaching assistant, then ulty of Geology and Geophysics of the Univer- as a lecturer in 1948, culminating as Professor of sity of Bucharest. For his work he was awarded Applied Mathematics in 1966. He was a Pro- twice by the Romanian Academy: Grigore Mur- fessor Emeritus at the department since 1984. goci Prize for the Magnetic Map of the Black Sea He headed the Department of Mathematics for (1973) and Stefan Hepites Prize for Historical ge- a long period. Ashour acquired an international omagnetic measurements in Romania (1998). In status through his innovative work in applica- 2000 he received the Society of Exploration Geo- tions of Mathematics in Geophysics. His name is physicists (SEG) Award for the entire activity in closely linked to fields of Mathematics like Spe- the field of geophysics, and in 2005 the Diploma cial Functions, Boundary-Value Problems, and to of Gratitude from the Institute of Geodynamics of Theoretical Geomagnetism. He has lead an ac- the Romanian Academy during the 40th anniver- tive school of research in these fields and several sary of the C˘ald˘aru¸sani Geodinamic Observatory. scientists obtained their M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees

IAGA News 2017 – Page 14 under his supervision. He was one of the leading colleagues, and all who knew him. He is survived experts on the Mathematical Theory of Electro- by his wife Karima and his daughter Zeinab, cur- magnetic Induction. Several applications carry his rently Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo name. Ashour was a Visiting Professor in many University. scientific Institutions worldwide. Ahmed Abdel Hady Astronomy, Space and Meteorology Dept. Ashour was elected a member of the Egyptian Faculty of Sciences, Cairo University, Egypt Academy of the Arab Language in 1990. Ashour was holder of many national and international prizes for his scientific work and for his national Olof Walter Lennartsson (1943 – 2017) and regional efforts in diffusing and strengthen- ing mathematical knowledge: The Order of Merit We are sad to report of Arts and Sciences First Grade, three times in that our friend and 1966-1986 and in 1988, The Order of Merit of colleague Olof Walter the Republic of Egypt of the Fifth Grade in 1954 Lennartsson passed and of the second Grade in 1984, The Medal of away unexpectedly at the African Mathematical Union in 1990. his home in Los Al- Ashour was granted Chevalier dans l’Ordre de La tos, CA on February 2, Palme Acad´emique from the French Government 2017. He was a great in 1985, and Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de scientist and a good M´erite from the French President in 1995 for his friend to the many efforts in developing Egyptian-French cooperation people with whom he in Mathematics. worked. During his Ashour was Fellow of the Royal Astronomical So- long and productive career he was a leader in ciety (R.A.S) since 1954, and was also elected unravelling the complex process that form the Foreign Associate of RAS, the highest recogni- Earth’s magnetosphere. tion offered by this society for foreign scientists, Walter was born on October 27, 1943, in the in 1978. He was a Member of the Advisory small village of Laxviken Sweden. He attended el- Board to the Director General of UNESCO on ementary school in Laxviken and F¨ollinge. While Science and the 21st Century. He was Presi- painting radiators during the daytime and ob- dent of the Arab Union of Mathematicians and serving the Aurora Borealis in the night skies of Physicists, 1975-1977, and Vice-President of the Northern Sweden, Walter knew that he wanted African Mathematical Union, 1976-1986. Ashour to learn more than the J¨amtland Province could was Vice-President of the International Union of offer so he completed his high school education Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) during the pe- in Ostersund,¨ Sweden. riod 1971-1975, and President of IUGG during He studied space physics from 1966 to 1973 at the period 1975-1979, He was Chairman of the the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Inter-divisional Working Group on International with space pioneers Lars Block, C.-G. Faelltham- and External Fields, of the International Asso- mar, and Rolf Bostrom in the Laboratory directed ciation of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, during by Hannes Alfv´en. His thesis work addressed elec- 1973-1979. He was made an Honorary Member tric field and current distributions in the iono- of IAGA in 1991. sphere. This work was one of the earliest to sug- Ashour was the Head of the International Center gest large potential drops along auroral magnetic for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA) at field lines. Subsequent work on the subject was Nice, France, from 1992 till 1996, and member of published in several papers during the rest of his its Administrative Council during1997-2000. He career. Walter’s early papers on the subject were was a founding member of the Arab Academy of controversial and have not yet been adequately Sciences. Ashour was a member of the Institut recognized for their keen insights and pioneering d’Egypte, and a multitude of other national and nature. international scientific organizations. In 1974 he began a NASA Postdoctoral Re- He is sadly missed by his numerous students and search Fellowship at the Marshall Alabama Space

IAGA News 2017 – Page 15 Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, where he met He was born in Kashmir on 15 January 1948, and his wife, Nancy Harris. They were married in was a child prodigy who received his early school- 1978 and relocated to Palo Alto, California where ing at home and went on to obtain his Master’s Walter joined the Space Sciences group at the degree at the age 16 and a Ph.D. at the age of then Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories 18 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. (LPARL) He then joined Princeton Plasma Physics Labo- At Lockheed Walter was the driving force behind ratory at the age of 19 by which time he already the analysis of the energetic ion mass spectrom- had 20 publications to his credit. eter data from NASA’s ISEE-1 satellite. He and Predhiman was a brilliant scientist with a broad many collaborators addressed the role of ion com- range of research interests and a prodigious re- position in magnetic storms, sub storms, geomag- search output spanning over 389 papers in in- netic pulsations, as well as the formation and dy- ternational journals. His early work at Prince- namics of the Earth’s plasma sheet. Perhaps the ton during the period 1967-71 resulted in semi- best known paper reporting on this phase of his nal contributions to nonlinear problems connected career is his 1986 paper with Ed Shelley, enti- with laser – plasma interactions and laid the foun- tled “Survey of 0.1- to 16-keV/e plasma sheet dations for much of the current research on high ion composition”. power laser matter interactions. From 1971-75, Walter applied his keen analytical skills and in- he worked at the Physical Research Laboratory sights, not only to improve the designs of sev- (PRL), Ahmedabad where he extended the theory eral very successful space plasma instruments, but of parametric instabilities to magnetized plasmas. also the analysis and interpretation of the result- The review articles written by him and some of ing data. Notable among those were the HERS his collaborators in this period are widely cited instrument on the ESA Giotto Mission to Comet and have had a significant impact on the devel- Halley and the TIMAS instrument on NASA’s Po- opment of intense RF heating in magnetized plas- lar spacecraft. After 35 years of employment at mas and in the interpretation of ionospheric heat- Lockheed Martin, he retired in 2013. Walter is ing experiments at Arecibo. During this period, survived by his wife of 38 years, Nancy Lennarts- he also made important contributions to the the- son, his son Nils Lennartsson; sister, Ellen Hed- ory of ionospheric irregularities and even initiated str¨om (Ume˚a, Sweden) and in-laws, nephews and laboratory experiments at PRL to simulate some nieces living in Alabama, Spain and Sweden. He of the ionospheric phenomena thereby planting a will be deeply missed by them and his many re- seed for future experimental plasma physics ac- search colleagues. tivities in India.

Ed Shelley In 1975 Predhiman went back to Princeton and Bill Peterson took up research on magnetically confined fusion Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) University of Colorado, USA plasmas and made several pioneering contribu- tions in this area. He showed that the decades old conventional wisdom on the stability of drift waves in sheared geometry was incorrect. He Predhiman Krishan Kaw (1948 – 2017) also demonstrated the existence of a coalescence instability of magnetic islands and showed how Prof. Predhiman Kr- model calculations can elucidate complex non- ishan Kaw, an inter- linear magnetic reconnection phenomena. These nationally acclaimed ideas have found applications in diverse phenom- plasma physicist and ena like disruption in tokamaks, energy release in the Founder Direc- solar flares and sub-storm effects in tail regions tor of the Institute of the magnetosphere. for Plasma Research Predhiman was also responsible for initiating and (IPR), Gandhinagar, developing the national magnetic fusion program passed away due to a in India. In the late seventies and early eighties, sudden cardiac arrest he and some of his colleagues at PRL succeeded on 18th June, 2017.

IAGA News 2017 – Page 16 in persuading the Dept. of Science and Technol- Shi Tsan Wu (1933 - 2017) ogy, Govt. of India, to set up a major programme of plasma physics at PRL. He returned to India in 1982 to direct this programme, which eventually With a heavy heart, evolved into the autonomous Institute for Plasma we announce the pass- Research. ing of Dr. S. T. Wu, Distinguished For his outstanding contributions and achieve- Professor Emeritus ments, Prof. Kaw received many honors and of the Department awards during his illustrious career including the of Mechanical and Indian National Science Academy’s Young Sci- Aerospace Engineer- entists Award in 1974, the Padma Shri award ing and Center for in 1985 and the SS Bhatnagar award in 1986. Space Plasma and Most recently he was awarded the Subrahmanyan Aeronomic Research, Chandrasekhar Prize for “outstanding contribu- at the University of Al- tions” in the field of plasma physics by the Asso- abama in Huntsville. He got ill suddenly and died ciation of Asia Pacific Plasma Physics Societies. in the afternoon of Sunday, May 21, 2017. His Above all, Prof. Kaw was a passionate scientist beloved wife Mai and his children were with him. and a great teacher who never tired of promot- As a child, he was attracted by automobiles, and ing the cause of science and spending enormous he wanted to build cars in China so that every- time mentoring students and younger colleagues. one could afford them. He chose mechanical en- As a human being he was extra-ordinarily kind gineering as his major at the National Taiwan and gentle with infinite patience particularly for University in Taiwan, Republic of China. His se- younger colleagues. This coupled with his infec- nior year project was the design of a small cheap tious enthusiasm for research and informal behav- car for everyone at that time when it was in the ior encouraged many students and scientists, not 1950’s. He came to the USA in 1957 for gradu- only from within the Institute but also from the ate study in mechanical engineering and received Universities and the scientific community abroad a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from to interact with him and collaborate with him in the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illi- research. Each one of them felt enriched and nois. emotionally touched by his warmth and generos- ity of spirit. In his more than 50 years of active The physics of fluids and heat transfer became scientific life, Predhiman has not only contributed his favorite subjects and opened his eyes to fun- significantly to the progress of plasma physics and damental sciences. His research in solar physics its applications in India and abroad but has also began in 1964 when he was a Ph.D. student at inspired a lot of young minds and touched a great the University of Colorado with a research assis- many human lives in an uplifting manner and thus tantship at the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) leaves behind an invaluable legacy in science and of the National Center for Atmospheric Research humanity. His death is a great loss for the plasma (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Supervised by Dr. physics community worldwide. Prof. Kaw is sur- Yoshinari Nakagawa, his work at HAO was on a vived by his wife Saroj and children, Sidharth, laboratory plasma experiment that simulated so- Prashant and Puja. lar flares in the laboratory using a magnetohydro- dynamic shock tube. He was assigned to develop a theoretical model to simulate solar flare shock tube experiment. Under the conditions of this shock tube, it produced a high temperature and multi-species plasma under non-thermodynamic-equilibrium (Non-LTE) con- Abhijit Sen ditions. At that time no appropriate theoretical Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India Gurbax Lakhina model existed. He began to formulate this prob- Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, New Panvel, India Bruce Tsurutani lem using multiple component Boltzmann Equa- Jet Propulsion laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA tion with quantum effects. Finally, they arrived

IAGA News 2017 – Page 17 at a set of multi-species Navier-Stokes type con- earned his master’s degree and a Ph.D. in 1963. servation equations for the non-equilibrium radia- He worked on early models of Earth’s magneto- tive plasma flow. This piece of research was his sphere for space weather analysis and prediction Ph.D. dissertation (Nakagawa and Wu, 1968: Wu and was instrumental in developing the Magneto- 1969, 1970) and began his research in solar MHD spheric Specification and Forecast Model funded plasma. and deployed by the Air Force. He also worked on After he completed his Ph.D. degree, he joined a program to evaluate the feasibility of satellite- The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) based solar power. near the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center. He In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Freeman was prin- had the opportunity to work with scientists in the cipal investigator of the Suprathermal Ion Detec- Solar Physics Group. He was one of the pio- tion Experiment (SIDE), part of the Apollo Lu- neers who started the development of numerical nar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP). Set magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models to simu- up on the moon during the Apollo 12, 14 and late the initiation and evolution of solar distur- 15 missions, the nuclear-powered ALSEP was an bances (e.g., Coronal Mass Ejection) from the octopus-like set of experiments that measured Sun to the Earth. characteristics of the thin atmosphere found near While working at UAH, he supervised 24 Ph.D. the moon’s surface. Pointed into the solar wind, and 25 Master students. He had received many it was the first to detect water vapour on the international, national, and regional honors and moon and gathered ground-breaking data about awards. He also served as a committee member in the composition and nature of Earth’s magneto- different science communities. He had published sphere for nearly seven years. hundreds of science research articles. He was His work on Apollo earned Freeman the NASA the founder and Director of the Center for Space Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, the Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) during Apollo Achievement Award and a Distinguished 1995-2005. He was also a Distinguished Professor Service Citation from his undergraduate alma in Department of Mechanical and Aerospace En- mater, Beloit College. “There was enormous gineering at UAH during 1990-2005. He retired in spirit at that time,” said Alexander Dessler, pro- 2005 when he became a distinguished Professor fessor emeritus of space physics and astronomy, Emeritus, University of Alabama System, Depart- who founded the world’s first university depart- ment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ment of space science at Rice and hired Freeman. and Center for Space Plasma & Aeronomic Re- “Everybody was in their late 20s or early 30s. We search (UAH). were young, optimistic, high energy and enthusi- Chin-Chun Wu astic and John fit right into that. He was a very Space Science Division Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA cheery guy with a lot of ideas. He buoyed up the department in his formative days,” Dessler said. “Some professors are more likeable than others and John was definitely a very likeable guy John W. Freeman, Jr. (1935 - 2017) for the students – and everybody. I think that came through for his entire life. He came in well- John Freeman, a Rice professor emeritus and re- equipped to be at the forefront of research and search professor of physics and astronomy and added vigour to the department from the very be- first director of the Master of Liberal Studies ginning.” Over the years, Freeman taught both program at the Glasscock School of Continuing graduate and undergraduate space physics and Studies, died July 15 in Dallas. He was 82. physics courses, including a series of natural sci- Freeman joined Rice’s then-named Department ence courses for non-science majors as well as of Space Science in 1964 after a year as a pre-med physics. Eighteen students earned their staff scientist at NASA headquarters in Wash- Ph.D.s in his group, according to his longtime col- ington, D.C. Freeman’s primary research focused league Patricia Reiff, a Rice professor of physics on space weather. He followed in the footsteps and astronomy. of space science pioneer James Van Allen, his Freeman retired from the department in 2000, mentor at the University of Iowa, where Freeman

IAGA News 2017 – Page 18 though he continued to pursue his research in- ceived his Ph.D. in physics from Penn State, and terests. The author of numerous papers, articles served on advisory boards for both institutions. and presentations, he served as editor in chief of Dr. Aikin began his career helping launch Space Power, a journal dedicated to space appli- scientific sounding rockets in Algeria for the cations, and authored a book, “Storms in Space,” French Government before joining NASA’s God- published in 2001. He became the first director dard Space Flight Center in 1961, and for sev- of the Master of Liberal Studies degree program eral years he served as head of a NASA scien- at the Glasscock School in 2005, serving in that tific branch involved in rocket exploration of the position until August 2016. ionosphere and middle atmosphere. He went on In 2011, Freeman oversaw the creation of the to head multiple sounding rocket campaigns in Master of Liberal Studies Writers Group, of which the U.S. as well as Argentina, Brazil, Greece, In- he was a member, sharing his talents as play- dia, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. He served as a wright, a poet and a writer of creative nonfic- consultant to the NASA lunar landing program, tion. Freeman ran half marathons as recently as and as a scientific investigator on several satel- four years ago and he was a frequent volunteer lite projects. A co-investigator on the Voyager on water projects in Haiti, the Yucatan Peninsula planetary mission, he developed the first model and Cuba. He was named a Paul Harris Fellow of atmospheric species on Saturn’s moon Titan. by Rotary for his work to develop water systems As a scientific advisor to Senator Pete Domenici, in developing countries. Freeman recently cele- Dr. Aikin assisted in drafting the amendment to brated his 60th anniversary with his wife, Phyllis. the Clean Air Act that regulated ozone-destroying The couple had a daughter, Laurie, and a son, CFC’s. He lectured on ozone and global warm- David. ing in Japan on a fellowship from the Japanese government, and taught courses at the University Umbe Oliveira Cantu Physics and Astronomy Department of Maryland and the U.S. Naval Academy. The Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA author of over 100 scientific publications, one of Dr. Aikin’s papers is among the ten most cited articles in geophysics. Following his retirement from Goddard, Dr. Aikin Arthur C. Aikin (1932 - 2017) served as an emeritus scientist at Goddard. He was a research professor in the Physics Depart- Arthur Coldren Aikin, ment of the Catholic University of America and Jr., 84, a pioneer also served as a consultant to Howard Univer- in space research sity. He was principal investigator of an Air Force who worked in ar- project in cooperation with the University of Bre- eas of ionospheric men in Germany. physics, planetary atmospheres, and He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Dorothy cometary structure, Jeanne; his daughter Kathryn Aikin (Daniel died September 28 at Gross); his son Jeffrey Aikin (Shelly Smith); his Howard County Gen- granddaughter Eleanor Gross, and his grandsons eral Hospital of congestive heart failure. Jeffrey Gross and Oliver Aikin. John Correira Dr. Aikin was born in 1932 in Gettysburg, Pa., to Computational Physics, Inc. the late Arthur C. and Kathryn (Bender) Aikin. Springfield, VA, USA A graduate of Gettysburg College, Dr. Aikin re- 8 General Information about IAGA

8.1 IAGA books series published by ❼ A brief description of the magnetic field of Springer the Earth

❼ Selection of observatory sites and layout

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❼ Testing and calibrating instruments

IAGA Guide for Magnetic Repeat Station Survey One of the important achievements of IAGA dur- by L.R. Newitt, C.E. ing the last years was to publish, with Springer, a Barton, and J. Bitterly, series of five books, representing results obtained 1997, 120 pages, ISBN: 0- by the IAGA five Divisions over recent years. As 9650686-1-7; Price: USD well as providing useful reference texts, the in- 25. come to IAGA from Springer for this venture was This Guide provides a used to support scientists to attend the last SA in comprehensive description Sopron, Hungary. The previous Secretary-General of the theoretical basis, devoted considerable time and effort to seeing this operational details, and in- project through to completion, and the current strumentation for making Secretary-General would like to thank warmly ev- magnetic repeat station eryone who showed support during the prepara- survey measurements. tion of these manuscripts, and is grateful for the This manual and instruction book was written by time taken by colleagues and friends to provide a group of active researchers, both professional valuable information and data, comments and en- and amateur. There are chapters giving practical couragement, as authors, editors or referees. advice for taking visual observations, photograph- IAGA has published four practical guides to obser- ing the clouds with film or with video equip- vation. These may be ordered from the Secretary- ment. A summary of observations from space General and they are also available at the IAGA is included, as well as comments on the connec- web site. tion between noctilucent clouds, seen from the ground, and the polar mesospheric clouds that so IAGA Guide for Magnetic Measurements and Obser- far have been measured only from orbit. Noc- vatory Practice tilucent clouds are seen in the summer months, by J. Jankowski and C. shining in the poleward sky at night-time. Mea- Sucksdorff, 1996, 232 surements show that the clouds are higher than pages, ISBN: 0-9650686- any others. Lying at a height of 80-85 kilometres, 2-5; Price: USD 50. the clouds mark a boundary between meteorol- This Guide provides com- ogy and space physics. This book is beautifully prehensive information illustrated with photographs, and will help every- about how to organize and one recognize and appreciate these “sailors in the run a magnetic observa- summer night”. tory and make magnetic This guide is out of print but it is available at measurements. The main the web site using the link ONC. (Prices do not topics are: include shipping and handling.)

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