First VarSITI General Symposium
June 6-10, 2016, Bulgaria

Final remarks

Final remarks by the Steering Body

Received on July 16, 2016

More than 100 scientists from 24 countries gathered in Albena, Bulgaria for the first VarSITI General Symposium (June 6-10, 2016), to overview the progress of various activities in the four VarSITI projects at the midpoint of the five-year program.

114 oral and poster scientific papers were presented in the 7 symposium sessions:

  1. Solar and Heliospheric Drivers of Earth-Affecting Events;
  2. Long-term Variation of the Sun and Climate;
  3. Understanding the Earth's space environment and its connection to space weather;
  4. Sun to Mud Campaign Study of March 15-17, 2015 Event and other significant events;
  5. Modeling the connection from Sun to Mud (and all steps in between);
  6. Data archiving;
  7. Special session on Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Technique Service (HELCATS).

The Book of Abstracts is available on this site (here )

Many presentations are available online on this site (here).

A special issue of JASTP will be published with papers based on the Symposium presentations, with promotional access (free for the authors, 9 months free to download).