VERSIM - a Brief History
The VERSIM group
had its origins in the 1950s as a committee of Commission
IV of URSI, and in 1969 was established
as a joint committee of Commissions III and IV on Whistlers in the Magnetosphere,
chaired by D.L. Carpenter
of Stanford University.
Following the URSI General Assembly
at Lima in 1975, the group was reconstituted as a joint working group of
URSI and IAGA
on Passive Electromagnetic Probing of the Magnetosphere, under URSI
Commissions G and H
and IAGA Divisions II
and III. The working
group was endorsed by IAGA at its meeting in Grenoble later the same year
and was constituted to have two co-chairmen, one from IAGA and one from
URSI, as shown below:
|
URSI
|
Co-chairman |
IAGA
|
Co-chairman |
| 1975-1981 |
D. L. Carpenter |
1975-1981 |
M. J. Rycroft |
| 1981-1984 |
K. Tsuruda |
1981-2003 |
A. J. Smith |
| 1984-1996 |
U. S. Inan |
2003- |
C. J. Rodger |
| 1996-2005 |
M. Parrot |
|
|
| 2005 |
J.
Lichtenberger |
|
|
The name of the working group was changed in 1989 to VERSIM
(VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere) which
was endorsed by IAGA at its General Assembly in Exeter the same year, and
by URSI at its General Assembly in Prague the following year. A further
minor change of name (but not acronym) to VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of
Ionospheres and Magnetospheres was accepted at the Lille URSI General
Assembly in 1996.
Craig J. Rodger, IAGA
Co-chairman of VERSIM.
Last Revised 21 November 2005
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