Atmospheric and Space Electricity Focus Group

This Focus Group has the responsibility for fostering a focus for atmospheric and space electricity within AGU. It is also charged with building interdisciplinary interaction, and educating AGU members about the nature and importance of problems and issues in atmospheric and space electricity. It should play a central role in attracting plasma physicists, space scientists, middle-atmosphere experts as well as traditional atmospheric electricity researchers. [AGU page for all FGs]

Important News

2012 AGU Fall Meeting – 3 December – 7 December

Key Dates for the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting:
*Session Proposals: 25 February - 20 April 2011
*Abstract Submissions: 8 June - 4 August 2011
*AGU Fall Meeting: 5-9 December 2011, San Francisco, California, USA
Visit AGU Meetings for more information: http://www.agu.org/meetings/

ASE Focus Group Reports

Focus Group Report to the AGU, 2006-2008:  The Immediate Past Chair, Victor Pasko, authored this status report, covering the 2006-2008 time period on the activities, accomplishments and near term plans of the ASE FG.

Committee Reports

White Paper on the Scientific Basis for Traditional Lightning Protection Systems (NFPA Report)

Primary affiliation with the ASE Focus Group

AGU members are now able to declare primary affiliation with the ASE Focus Group, while retaining secondary affiliation with one or more other sections or focus groups. Primary affiliation helps maintain ASE's visibility and continued growth within AGU. Members "lose" no privileges by selecting primary affiliation with a Focus Group rather than a Section. Membership affiliation can be updated on the Online Membership Directory page.

All-ASE Emails

Informative emails (conference announcements, etc.) are periodically sent to all ASE Focus Group members.  If you are interested in sending a message to the ASE community, please send an email to the ASE Focus Group Chair, who will ensure it is distributed to the rest of the membership.

Past ASE Email Announcements

Meetings

Voluntary Contributions to the ASE Fund

All AGU Sections and Focus Groups maintain separate funds to support special activities of the groups. If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to the ASE Fund (or the AGU Annual Campaign), please visit: http://www.agu.org/givingtoagu/ . Gifts can also be specified as Memorials or Special Recognitions, and can be made at any time during the year. To contribute to the ASE Fund from the giving page, select "Fund Drive" from the pulldown menu, and "Atmospheric and Space Electricity" from the pulldown menu on the next page.

ASE Outstanding Student Paper Awards (chosen Fall Meeting, 2010)

Three Outstanding Student Paper Awards were given:

Sonja Behnke, New Mexico Tech, Advisor: Ron Thomas
The life cycle of Redoubt's volcanic lightning storms

Jianqi Qin, Penn State, Advisor: Victor Pasko
On the inception of streams from sprite halo events produced by lightning discharges with positive and negative polarity

Can Liang, Stanford University, Advisor: Umran Inan
Toward a time-domain fractal lightning simulation

One student paper was chosen for honorable mention:
Manabu Akita, Osaka University, Advisor: Zen Kawasaki
Relationships between lightning leader progression characteristics and local charge structures in thunderclouds

Past ASE Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

 

Editor's Choice: Atmospheric and Space Electricity

Collection Editor: Davis Sentman (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Advisory Panel: Maribeth Stolzenburg (University of Mississippi) and Osmar Pinto, Jr. (Brazilian Institute of Space Research)

The ASE Focus Group has its own edition of "Editor’s Choice." Editor's Choice virtual journals contain selected new articles from across AGU journals on a specific topic. New articles are posted twice a month, and are available online at the link above.

Richard Orville (Texas A&M University) worked with the AGU publications staff to make Editor's Choice for Atmospheric and Space Electricity a reality. The first edition was in 2002, and from 2002 - 2006 the Collection Editor was Richard Orville with Vlad Rakov (University of Florida) and Dave Sentman as the Advisory Panel. From 2006 - 2009 Vlad Rakov was the Collection Editor with Dave Sentman and Maribeth Stolzenburg on the Advisory Panel.

Officers for 2010–2012

Ad-hoc Committees

 

Go to Inside AGU
AGU