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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Author: Attila Komjathy</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">(apologies for cross-posting)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">We would like to bring your attention to our session at the 2016 Beacon Satellite Symposium (BSS) to be held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy on June 27 to July 1,
2016.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2016</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">The 2016 BSS sessions are listed at</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">The session that might be of interest to you is as follows:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Monitoring Natural Hazards: Signatures of Earth, Ocean Coupling to the Ionosphere</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis have been significant threats to humans throughout recorded history. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites including GPS, GLONASS,
Galileo, BeiDou and others have become primary sensors to measure signatures associated with such natural hazards. These signatures typically include GNSS-derived seismic deformation measurements, co-seismic vertical displacements, and real-time GNSS-measured
ocean buoy positioning estimates. Another way to use GNSS observables is to compute the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) monitor post-seismic and pre-seismic ionospheric disturbances caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. These measurements
provide new scientific insight into the geophysical source phenomenology, wave propagation physics, and electromagnetic coupling processes. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">We solicit observational, theoretical and modeling contributions that specifically address the societal benefits that can be realized through the routine monitoring of atmospheric and ionospheric disturbances. Innovative
concepts for the monitoring of seismic and tsunami hazards that make use of Earth to ionosphere coupling via acoustic gravity waves are particularly welcome. Precursory signals and perturbations consecutive to recent earthquakes are also pertinent. With improved
knowledge of the various geophysical processes involved, these means have the potential to enhance natural hazards warning systems in order to save human life and mitigate economic damage.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">We look forward to hearing and receiving abstracts from you.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Best wishes,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Co-chair Dr. Attila Komjathy</font></div>
<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory</font></div>
<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">California Institute of Technology</font></div>
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<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Co-chair Prof. Sergey Pulinets </font></div>
<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Space Research Institute </font></div>
<div><font face="Century,sans-serif">Russian Academy of Sciences </font></div>
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