Highlights
COSPAR 2016 has been cancelled. Please see the Assembly scientific program site for further information.
COSPAR will hold its third Symposium on Jeju Island, South Korea, 18 - 22 September 2017. The general focus, spanning COSPAR Scientific Commission and Panel disciplines, is "Small Satellites for Space Research."
Elsevier offers free on-line access, through ScienceDirect (click the "View Articles" link) for twelve months to the first issue of the year and free on-line access for one month after publication to special issues. The topical Issue on "X-ray Emission from Hot Stars and their Winds" (Volume 58/05) is currently freely available online until approximately 1 October 2016.
The following calls for papers for special issues of Advances in Space Research are now available from the ASR web page and directly through the links below:
- Origins of Cosmic Rays: deadline 15 November 2016
- Past, Present and Future of Small Body Science and Exploration: deadline 31 January 2017
- MHD Wave Phenomena in the Solar Interior and Atmosphere: deadline 28 February 2017
“Observation and Integrated Earth-system Science: a Roadmap for 2016 - 2025” (published in ASR, 57, n°10, 15 May 2016): full paper freely available through August 2016.
IOCS-2017 is to be held on 15-19 May 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, convened by the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG), with EUMETSAT and ESA.
Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), with the Institute of Space Technology (IST) is organizing the 2nd International Conference on Space (ICS-2016) on 20-22 September 2016, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Abstract submission is now open.
The 2015 Impact Factor for ASR is 1.409, up from 1.358 in 2014 and at its highest ever.