May  2008     ISSUE 26

Call for Papers!   Everybody is Welcome!

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Special Issue of Earth, Planets and Space (EPS)

    Cosmic Dust: Its Formation and Evolution

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This issue of EPS will be devoted to the session ``Cosmic Dust: Its Formation and Evolution'' of the AOGS 2008 meeting held in Busan, South Korea. It is meant primarily to contain papers presented at this particular session of AOGS 2008, but it is open to submission of papers from other authors, following the regular EPS submission procedures. Contributions should discuss any aspect of cosmic dust. All kinds of cosmic dust such as intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, circumstellar dust, cometary dust, asteroidal dust, interplanetary dust, circumplanetary dust, stellar nebular condensates, presolar grains, interplanetary dust particles (extraterrestrial stratospheric particles), micrometeorites (polar ice particles), meteoroids, meteors, and regolith particles are the subject of discussion. All submitted papers go through a peer review process, wherein experts review, recommend, or reject the paper for publishing. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted to the EPS editorial office. Electronic submissions by e-mail to eps@terrapub.co.jp  are encouraged, but authors who meet any difficulties with electronic submissions could submit a hard copy by post. 

For details, please visit the following web page: http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS  and click on ``Information for Contributors''. The cover letter should mention ``Submitted to the Special Issue: Cosmic Dust''.

After papers are accepted, the authors will receive instructions for the final manuscript from the editorial office. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 July 2008. This special issue will hopefully be published in December 2008.

For more information on this special issue, please contact the corresponding editor H. Kimura

(hiroshi_kimura@lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp ); questions on manuscript preparation should be addressed to the EPS editorial office.

Note: EPS accepts manuscripts of original research contributions only, and so-called ``review papers'' will not be accepted

Guest Editors: Hiroshi Kimura, Hokkaido University, Japan

               Masateru Ishiguro, Seoul National University, Korea

               Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of Maryland, USA

               Aigen Li, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

               Torsten Poppe, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

               Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, NASA/Johnson Space Center, USA

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Meetings               

ELS-XI: University of Hertfordshire 7-12 September 2008 

Extended Abstracts Deadline: June 1, 2008.

See http://www.els-xi-08.org/default.asp?ContentID=1311 for further details.

Submissions in Microsoft WORD or  pdf  files please.

New Papers

The JQSRT special issue on X Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Non-Spherical Particles Volume 109, Issue 8, Pages 1335-1548 (May 2008) is now available at

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00224073

The following papers are now available in the PDF format at http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~crmim/publications/  :

       Mishchenko, M. I., 2008: Multiple scattering, radiative transfer, and weak localization in discrete random media: unified microphysical approach, Rev. Geophys. 46, RG2003.  

       Mishchenko, M. I., G. Videen, N. G. Khlebtsov, T. Wriedt, and N. T. Zakharova, 2008: Comprehensive T-matrix reference database: A 2006-07 update, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 109, 1447-1460.

      Mishchenko, M. I., G. Videen, and M. P. Mengüç, 2008: Preface: The Tenth Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 109, 1335-1337.

      Mishchenko, M. I., 2008: Multiple scattering by particles embedded in an absorbing medium. 1. Foldy-Lax equations, order-of-scattering expansion, and coherent field, Opt. Express 16, 2288-2301.

      Dlugach, J. M., and M. I. Mishchenko, 2008: Photopolarimetry of planetary atmospheres: what observational data are essential for a unique retrieval of aerosol microphysics?, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 384, 64-70.