Academic Partnerships - Archive

MIST	The 2004 Spring MIST meeting was held jointly with the UK Solar Physics meeting. This was hosted by BGS Geomagnetism in Edinburgh. The conference website Auld Reekie MIST/UKSP has a reminder of the event with photos and documentation. A meeting report is also available.
INTAS	INTAS is the International Association for the promotion of co-operation between scientists of the European Union Member States and like-minded countries and of the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. BGS Geomagnetism is coordinating project 01-0142: "Spatial Structure of the Geomagnetic Field and its Global and Regional Variability in the 20th Century".
IAGA	IAGA Divison V Working Group 3 on Geomagnetic Variations Revision of the IGRF will occur at this year's IUGG/IAGA meeting in Sapporo (July 2003). BGS has produced candidate models for 1995 and 2000, and a secular variation model for 2000-2005.
ISO	IAGA is involved through its Division V, Working Group 3, in assessing the viability and significance of a proposed ISO standardisation process TC20/SC14/WG4 for the space environment. This has implications for both IAGA science and scientists, and also for practical engineering purposes in the aerospace industry. An IAGA task force of Dr Vladimir Papitashvili (Division V Chair) and Dr Alan Thomson (WG V-3 Chair) are investigating the proposals for a standardised model of the magnetosphere (see Moscow State University for the proposed model) Some IAGA documents are available here and we welcome feedback on any of these issues: Questions for Industry and IAGA Progress. Summary of IAGA Activities on the ISO Magnetospheric Standard (2001-2003)