IITC Newsletter Vol 4 No 1 : 25 March 2004
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1.  We have added a new link to the IITC web pages.  At the request of 
Tero Raita, the Site Station Manager at Sodankyla Geophysical 
Observatory, we have added a link to the tomography pages they are 
posting from the Scandinavian chain.  If anyone else in this community 
has posted tomographic results on the Internet and you would like us to 
link to your site, please let me know.


2.  The following Call for Papers for the Beacon Satellite Symposium to 
be held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 
(ICTP), Trieste, Italy, this coming October was received from Prof. 
Reinhart Leitinger:

     Attached you will find the "Call for Papers" for the International 
     Beacon Satellite Symposium 2004.  Organizational details, 
     pre-registraion procedures, etc. follow in about 2 weeks. Thanks 
     to a substantial financial contribution from our host organization,
     the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 
     (ICTP), we will be able to subsidize travel and accommodation 
     costs for some participants from developing countries, provided 
     that they present oral or poster papers. Ranking of applications 
     for subsidies will be made by the scientific committee on the 
     basis of scientific value of submitted papers for the advancement 
     of beacon satellite studies. Preference will be given to 
     contributions to the main topics of the Symposium (see Call for 
     Papers).  We hope to have also a small number of subsidies for 
     Young Scientists.

3.  Prof. Leitinger has also passed along the following note from Jack 
Klobuchar regarding the passing of one of our colleagues, Elizabeth 
Essex:


     I just received an e-mail message from Harvey Cohen, the husband 
     of Elizabeth Essex, telling me that Elizabeth passed away 
     yesterday (Sunday) in LaTrobe, Australia.  She had been suffering 
     from an unspecified type of cancer for some time.  Please send 
     information concerning her death to the members of the Satellite 
     Beacon community.  Personal notes to her family should be sent to: 

     Dr Harvey Cohen 
     15 Shorts Road 
     Research 
     Victoria 3095 
     Australia 

     As you know, Elizabeth was a stalwart member of the ionospheric 
     satellite beacon community.  She, along with her students, 
     published papers on many aspects of TEC and scintillation 
     research, including ionospheric effects of magnetic storms, TEC 
     changes during solar eclipses, studies of Traveling Ionospheric 
     Disturbances, slab thickness effects, protonospheric and 
     ionospheric modeling, applications of tomographic techniques to 
     the ionosphere, and many studies on scintillation, especially in 
     the southern auroral zone.  She is survived by her husband, 
     Harvey, and their four children.