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Geospace Revisited Conference
a Cluster/MAARBLE/Van Allen Probes Conference
15-20 September 2014, Rhodes, Greece

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Group photograph of participants at Geospace Revisited
Ioannis A. Daglis

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