Geospace Revisited:
a "joint Cluster/ MAARBLE/
Van Allen Probes Conference" (http://geospacerev.space.noa.gr) was held in Rhodes,
Greece, on 15 to 20 September 2014, and was attended by 160 participants from 26 countries - mainly
from USA, Japan, China and the European Union. The central aim of the conference was to revisit long-standing issues of geospace dynamic phenomena
through investigations with space and ground-based
measurements combined with theory, models and
simulations. The keynote talk on James Van Allen
and the discovery of the radiation belts by Stamatios
Krimigis opened the conference, which included six
plenary sessions, with topics ranging from upstream
transient phenomena and processes in the magnetotail to ring current and radiation belt dynamics. 95
oral and 70 poster presentations delved into the problems of solar-terrestrial coupling and the complex
interplay of particles, fields and waves in geospace
and kept the interest of the participants unabated
throughout the week. The conference included also
two well-attended splinter sessions on Radiation Belt
Specification and on the VarSITI/SPeCIMEN project
of SCOSTEP, as well as several other mission and
project splinter meetings.
The conveners Ioannis A. Daglis (University of Athens) and Philippe Escoubet (European Space Agency) agreed on a special issue of Annales Geophysicae with papers of the conference.
Ioannis A. Daglis
University of Athens