March 26, 2018
VERSIM

VERSIM

In the Polar Geophysical Institute (PGI) in Apatity, an international scientific conference of the working group on VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere VERSIM was held from March 19 to 23.

The working group on VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere (VERSIM) is an international group of scientists interested in studying the behavior of the magnetosphere and ionosphere by means of ELF (300 Hz – 3 kHz) and VLF (3-30 kHz) radio waves, both naturally and artificially generated. The group was set up in 1975 by IAGA (International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy) and URSI (International Union of Radio Science), as described in the working group history.

Since 2004, the VERSIM working group holds conferences every two years. These conferences devoted to discussing the latest scientific results obtained in the field of research of all possible processes in the near-earth space in which low-frequency electromagnetic waves participate. Such meetings help scientists to learn better from the first lips about the latest achievements and also to discuss possible joint projects.

Scientists from Russia, Japan, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France, Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States, engaged in research in the field of physics of the magnetosphere, ionosphere, solar-terrestrial connections, as well as applied research have gathered in Apatity for the VERSIM conference.