2022

Welcome to XIII COLAGE

The ALAGE precursor according to Juan Roederer was the CLARC (Consejo Latinoamericano de Radiación Cósmica), with the initial name of Curso Latinoamericano de Radiación Cósmica, in Bariloche, Argentina in January 1959 (see paper by Korff y Chasson, Physics Today, July 1959). There was also a CLARC meeting in Mexico City organized by Dr. Ruth Gall and Prof. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta in 1961.

In 1964 there was a course in Tucumán, Argentina, not under the CLARC acronym but with the same sense of activity. The next CLARC meeting that Juan remembers of was in INPE, Brazil, promoted by Prof. Giann Carlo Giambiagi and the support of CLAF, presided by him at that time. There, the words “Radiación Cósmica” were changed by "Geofísica Espacial".

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial (ALAGE) was created in 1993. It is an autonomous scientific society that attempts to motivate the development of research in Space Geophysics, taking advantage of the human resources and the cultural unity, as well as the similar economic conditions of Latin America. ALAGE seeks to complement the activities of the existing regional geophysical organisms.

One of the main activities of ALAGE is the periodical organization of meetings that are attended by most of the scientists working in the ALAGE areas of interest: the middle and upper atmosphere, the ionosphere, the magnetosphere, the interplanetary medium, the cosmic rays, the planets, satellites, minor planets and small bodies, the Sun and the Solar-terrestrial environment. These meetings are called Conferencia Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial (COLAGE). Up to now, we have organized twelve of them in different Latinamerican countries. The COLAGE meetings have been attended each time by nearly a hundred scientists and graduate students not only working in Latin America but also from all over the world.

Another important activity of ALAGE is the publication of its Bulletin. It is how we communicate relevant information from our countries regarding the ALAGE areas of interest. Until now, we have elaborated 34 bulletins. At 25 years of the first COLAGE meeting, we have reached a wide recognition in Latin America and also in several other countries outside the region. We have incorporated by now 149 active research members working in the region. Therefore, we are the Association that effectively represents most of the Space Geophysics Research carried out in Latin America.

Local Organizing Committee (LOC)

Clezio Marcos De Nardin, INPE, President

Alisson Dal Lago, INPE
Igo Paulino, UFCG
Jean-Pierre Raulin, CRAAM Mackenzie
Joaquim Eduardo Rezende Costa, INPE
Juliano Moro, INPE & CBJLSW
Láysa Cristina Araujo Resende, INPE & CBJLSW
Marlos Rockenbach da Silva, INPE
Maurício José Alves Bolzan, UFJ
Patrícia Leite, INPE
Phablo de Araújo Souza, UFJ, IC
Sony Su Chen, INPE, MSc

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

The LOC have invited a list of distinguished scientists to assist with the definition of the scientific fields for the XIII COLAGE, which includes but are not limited to: Space Weather (SWx); Ionospheric Research (ION); Neutral Atmosphere Dynamics (ATM); Solar Physics (SOL); Earth Magnetic Field (EMF), including Ground Magnetism; Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) including Magnetospheric Physics; and Non-Linear Processes (NLP). The names, affiliation and e-mail addresses are listed below (in alphabetical order within the scientific fields).

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