IAGA 2025 Abstract Submission Open

The International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) will have a joint conference with the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) next year from 31st August to 5th September in Lisbon, Portugal. It will be preceded by a week long summer school organised by the two associations for early career researchers in their respective fields. 

The call for abstracts is now open until 12th March 2025 while the registration opens in January 2025. More details about abstract submission, registration and the conference can be found on the website. The abstract notification will be sent out by 17th April 2025. Abstract title and text are limited to 20 and 250 words respectively.

All information, new and old will be regularly posted on our blog page including many outreach sessions planned. Stay tuned for more info to start preparing for the upcoming conference! You can see the list of blogs related to the assembly by visiting this webpage.

IAGA YouTube

We are here to remind you that IAGA YouTube has a lot of exciting and interesting videos created for the general public, elementary school kids and early career researchers in various aspects of earth sciences as well as planetary and space sciences. Have a look!

Some series that would be of interest are-

1) Magnetic Mosaic: This documentary is not on IAGA official channel but on one of our creator's channel. It talks about the magnetic field of the earth and was one of the finalists in the UNESCO Earth's Future Festival.

2) Geoscience Connections: This documentary is an animated movie along with interviews of various early career researchers talking about everything about the earth- from its formation to its future. The project of the same name also consists of a small animated movie called 'Earth-Human Connections' that uses analogy between the earth and humans to explain about their connection. Finally, it has over 15 scientists talking about themselves and their science in short video formats. Don't forget to check out your favourite videos from the playlist here.

3) Bimbim's Team: Next, we have short animated videos about the Solar System, Earth and Mars in three languages- English, French and Portuguese- for kids. The protagonist is Bimbim, a jolly dog who wants to throw a space themed birthday party!

4) Summer School: There are handy lecture videos from the last IAGA summer school in Berlin 2023 where different science aspects of IAGA was covered by experts. The participants were phd and postdocs who received an understanding of the concepts of geomagnetism and hands on experience in dealing with the data.

5) Finally, we have many more exciting outreach science videos coming up in the following weeks in the form of documentaries, web series and short videos. Don't forget to check them out as well!

Exploration of the Jovian system #2

There are two icy moon missions of this decade that will reach their respective bodies of interest beginning of next decade- JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) and Europa Clipper. The main focus of JUICE is Ganymede and for Clipper is Europa. Both these planetary bodies are moons of our Solar System's largest planet Jupiter. Scientists are particularly interested in the Jovian moons because these bodies contain large oceans under their surface making them a suitable place to study for potential habitability. They are called 'icy moons' because their surface is made up of ice! If you are interested to learn more about these moons, head to our previous blogs about them!

While JUICE launched on April 14th 2023, Clipper is all set to launch this month! If you are a space enthusiast and are interested in watching the launch: in person- head to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, or online: head to NASA's website. The launch window starts within a week on October 10th and goes up till the end of the month. It will take Clipper five and a half years to reach Jupiter in 2030.

Image Credit: NASA