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Special Session 01 Tue-02 Aug 14:00 – 16:00

Yohsuke Kamide and the Storm-Substorm Controversy

It would not be an overstatement to say that Kamide sensei played a decisive and key role in the direction of my scientific career. In 1994 he asked me to deliver an invited talk on the role of oxygen ions in magnetic storm dynamics at the 21st Assembly of IUGG in Boulder, in July 1995. In the early stage of my research career I had focused on magnetospheric substorm dynamics and the invitation of Kamide sensei opened a new research chapter for me, which was very interesting and very productive. Obviously I explored Kamide’s work on the topic of storm-substorm relationship and we had many discussions and collaborative efforts, although we did not agree. Despite our disagreements, Kamide sensei invited me to STELab for a three-month stay in 1998, which turned into something like an advanced school for me, as I had the opportunity for almost daily interaction with him. In my talk I refer to the basic points of Kamide’s work on the storm-substorm relationship and on some more recent developments that partly support Kamide’s view.

Ioannis A. Daglis is Professor and Head of the Space Physics Group at the Department of Physics of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (http://scholar.uoa.gr/iadaglis/home), and President of the Hellenic Space Center. His past affiliations include the National Observatory of Athens and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Germany). In 1998 he was invited as visiting associate professor to the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (Japan), and in 2017 he spent three months at Nagoya University (Japan) as Designated Professor. Collaboration visits have included, among others, Johns Hopkins University, Aerospace Corporation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bell Labs, Boston University, UC Berkeley and UCLA. He has been a Full Member of the International Academy of Astronautics since 2011 and Editor-in-Chief of Annales Geophysicae since 2014.

Prof. Daglis has been Principal Investigator in 30 research projects; he currently leads the Horizon2020 project SafeSpace (https://www.safespace-h2020.eu), which aims at advancing space weather nowcasting and forecasting capabilities. He has published 110+ refereed papers and has edited and co-authored 5 textbooks, one of which (Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards, 2001) has been "recommended teaching material" for Space Sciences by the UN's Office for Outer Space.

Prof. Daglis served as a Member of ESA's advisory Solar System Working Group (2005-2010) and as scientific advisor and technical expert for NASA, NSF, Academy of Finland, Research Council of Norway, BELSPO, Helmholtz Association, and the European Commission.