Autumn MIST

Last year's one-day autumn meeting of the MIST (Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar–Terrestrial) community was held on 22 November 2002 at the Geological Society, Burlington House. Jim Wild reports.     

Granta MIST

The magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar–terrestrial physics community gathered at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, for three days between Tuesday 5 April and Thursday 7 April 2005. Neil Arnold and Andrew Lyons report.     

Autumn MIST

The annual one-day meeting of the MIST (Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar–Terrestrial) community was held on 23 November 2001 at the Geological Society, Burlington House. Neil Arnold reports.     

Soarly MIST

The magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar–terrestrial physics community gathered near the village of Soarly, at Stanford Hall, University of Leicester for its spring meeting, bathed for the most part in unseasonally warm and sunny weather. Neil Arnold reports.     

Interplanetary MIST

The London MIST meeting in November covered current research using satellites to investigate planetary environments across the solar system, including our own. Earth-bound instruments, GPS and modelling also came under discussion, as did a series of results from the Cluster mission. Neil Arnold reports.     

Millennium MIST

The magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar–terrestrial physics community gathered at the Civil Engineering Department, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London from 11–13 April 2000. Neil Arnold and Peter Cargill report.     

Autumn MIST 2009

Colin Forsyth, Nicola Longden, Andrew Walsh and Robert Wicks summarize a MIST meeting where ground-based ionospheric science came under the spotlight, amid the broader concerns of the MIST community.     

Season of MIST

Neil Arnold reports from the Autumn MIST Meeting held on 24 November 2000 at Burlington House, where discussion included a new electronic initiative that could improve access to solar–terrestrial data across the country.     

London MIST 2004

The annual one-day meeting of the MIST (Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar–Terrestrial) community was held in November 2004 at Burlington House, with contributions on data and ideas ranging from Cassini to Cluster, with stops at many experiments in between.     

Auld Reekie MIST

The magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar–terrestrial physics community gathered at the University of Edinburgh from 29 March – 1 April 2004, for a meeting including a day of joint sessions with UKSP. The four day programme reflected the breadth and depth of the science covered. Neil Arnold and Alan Thomson report; the UKSP meeting is covered in the following pages.     

Steel MIST and UKSP together at Sheffield

The annual UK Solar Physics meeting this year joined a MIST meeting for the first time. The two drew together the considerable UK solar and solar–terrestrial physics community for discussion and debate at the University of Sheffield from 9–12 April 2002. Neil Arnold and Graham Bailey (MIST) and Robert Erdélyi (UKSP) report on this innovative joint meeting.     

Donald Griffiths 1919–2007

Fellow of the RAS, innovative geophysicist who developed electrical imaging methods to solve hydrological, environmental and archaeological problems.     

Tor Hagfors 1936–2006

Associate of the RAS, persistent and productive Wolf–Rayet and massive-star astronomer, observer and leader in Argentinean astronomy.     

Bernard Pagel 1930–2007

Fellow and Gold Medallist of the RAS; innovative observer and modeller in nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution – and enthusiastic musician.     

Robert Hutchison 1938–2007

Fellow and Treasurer of the RAS; long-standing radio and optical observer who discovered the gravitational lens; unassuming and efficient organizer for astronomy.     

Ted Harrison 1930–2007

Associate of the RAS, pioneer in ionospheric incoherent scatter theory and observation, practical manager and leader, not least of EISCAT.