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SOLAR, TERRESTRIAL & SPACE PHYSICS IN AUSTRALIA U. Newcastle: Magnetosphere Ionospheric Prediction Service (IPS): Space Weather • Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling & TIGER radar • FedSat & ground magnetometer networks • ULF waves & radiation belt dynamics • Gather Australian & international datasets & advise Govt & industry clients • Learmonth & Culgoora radio FedSat – Australia’s first science spacecraft • Contact: [email protected] • Contact: David Cole / [email protected] U. of Sydney: Theory & Heliosphere • Plasma, solar & space physics U. Adelaide: Neutral Atmosphere & Ionosphere • Neutral winds • Coupling to ionosphere & space • VHF & MF radar, airglow, photometers • Contact: [email protected] LaTrobe U.: Ionosphere & Magnetosphere Coupling • Activity, changes in plasma structures, magnetic connectivity • TIGER radar, GPS, optical spectrometers RESEARCH & INSTRUMENTS Solar activity: flares, CMEs, X-ray & radio 2. Space weather: Sun-Earth connections 3. Magnetosphere: substorms, currents, aurora 4. Ionosphere: radio reception, ionization changes 5. Neutral atmosphere: winds, coupling 6. Complex systems: connections, predictability 1. 7. Space assets: FedSat, NASA & ESA spacecraft .. (STEREO spacecraft?) 8. Australia/NZ: IPS radio, TIGER and MF/VHF radars, magnetometers (Mileura Widefield Array?) 9. Antarctica: magnetometers, cosmic rays, auroral imagers, digisondes • Theory, simulations, & data-theory tests • Sun – solar wind – Earth – interstellar medium • Complexity, waves, radiation & acceleration • STEREO swaves instrument •Contact: [email protected] Australian Antarctic Division • Magnetosphere-ionosphere - aurora • Digisondes, cosmic rays, magnetometers, VLF receivers, auroral imagers • Infrastructure for external agencies Digisonde at Davis, Antartica Strong connections to Plasma Physics & Astrophysics • Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Contact: Above people & Iver Cairns, (02) 9351 3961, email: [email protected] .